CoWare Extends Lead on Platform Design Creation and Validation; Adds Features to Ease Design Reuse, Accelerate Simulation Performance.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 18, 2002 CoWare(TM) Inc. of San Jose, Calif., today began shipping the latest version of its CoWare N2C(R) design environment, further extending its position as the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ) software and services. CoWare N2C was developed for system architects, hardware designers and software integrators to quickly generate multiple platforms Refers to two or more operating environments, which typically include the CPU family and operating system. For example, if versions of a program run on Windows and the Macintosh, the software is said to support multiple platforms. with different options and for easy design reuse reuse - Using code developed for one application program in another application. Traditionally achieved using program libraries. Object-oriented programming offers reusability of code via its techniques of inheritance and genericity. . This version offers improvements in design creation and architectural validation. It now supports the Linux platform, accelerating simulation performance. "We pushed the threshold on platform-based design creation and verification because our customers are being asked to push their threshold to get products to market," remarks Pete Hardee, director of product marketing at CoWare. "This release of CoWare N2C provides them with the environment they need to rapidly, efficiently and cost-effectively complete their designs." Enhanced CoWare N2C Design Environment With today's market pressures, there is no time for silicon re-spins and second guessing whether a chip will work. As a result, new methodologies like platform-based design are being more widely accepted and adopted. With its enhanced Interface Synthesis and bus generation capabilities, CoWare offers designers software that can help them generate multiple platforms, evaluate different platforms with standard bus analysis views, and reuse these platforms in other designs. Interface Synthesis is used for efficient creation of different bus architectures to determine the best throughput for the system, based on the application. CoWare's bus generation technology is based on standards such as AMBA AMBA Area Metropolitana de Buenos Aires (Spanish) AMBA Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture AMBA American Mold Builders Association AMBA American Mustang and Burro Association AMBA Association of Master of Business Administration or CoreConnect. While these bus standards provide advanced features and capabilities, the complexity of architectural choices has increased. With CoWare N2C, designers can leverage those capabilities and validate the correct choice for their application. Integrated with the bus generation technology is bus-specific analysis data collection to provide information on bus contention Bus contention is an undesirable state of the bus of a computer, in which more than one memory mapped device or the CPU is attempting to place output values onto the bus at once. , latency (1) The time between initiating a request in the computer and receiving the answer. Data latency may refer to the time between a query and the results arriving at the screen or the time between initiating a transaction that modifies one or more databases and its completion. , collisions and bus traffic. Designers need easy design creation capabilities, along with the ability to verify and implement a platform design. CoWare bus generators create models that can be exported to the register transfer level (RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; ) and that are ready for synthesis. In addition, ease of integrating and migrating a system-level netlist to hardware description languages (language) Hardware Description Language - (HDL) A kind of language used for the conceptual design of integrated circuits. Examples are VHDL and Verilog. (HDLs) has been improved along with co-simulation performance to assist hardware designers in the verification of their individual blocks in the platform. Fast simulation is required to verify and analyze system performance. The availability of CoWare N2C on Linux provides the performance necessary to validate bus architectures. Additionally, it provides a platform for software developers to start their integration and testing prior to silicon. Pricing and Availability The latest version of CoWare N2C is in use today in production environments at electronics and systems companies worldwide. CoWare N2C Advanced System Designer, which contains all the capabilities described above, is priced from $180,000 U.S. list for a three-year license. It runs on the Sun Solaris and Linux operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Contact Paula Menzigian, product marketing manager at CoWare, for more details. She can be reached via email at paula@coware.com or at (408) 392-8546. About CoWare As the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software and services for System-on-Chip (SOC) designers, CoWare, Inc. provides a platform-based design methodology that can cut design time in half. As a founder and leader of SystemC, CoWare is driving the industry toward a unifying system design language. CoWare software is employed today by major systems, intellectual property (IP) and semiconductor companies, including Alcatel, ARM, Canon, Fujitsu, InterDigital interdigital between two digits. interdigital cysts see interdigital pyoderma, pododermatitis. interdigital dermatitis 1. the early lesion in the development of infectious footrot in sheep; called also sheep scald. , Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sanyo, Sony, ST Microelectronics microelectronics, branch of electronic technology devoted to the design and development of extremely small electronic devices that consume very little electric power. , Tensilica and Toshiba. The San Jose Business Journal recently recognized CoWare as the 13th fastest-growing private company in Silicon Valley in 2001. For more information, visit www.CoWare.com. CoWare and CoWare aWare are trademarks and CoWare N2C is a registered trademark of CoWare, Inc. |
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