CoWare and Forte Deliver First Integrated SystemC-based Solution For Electronic System Level -- ESL -- Design to Implementation.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. -- Flow Unites System Architecture, Simulation, and Synthesis CoWare(R) Inc., 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, and Forte Design Systems, the market leader in behavioral synthesis, announced the first integrated SystemC-based solution for electronic system-level (ESL (1) An earlier family of client/server development tools for Windows and OS/2 from Ardent Software (formerly VMARK). It was originally developed by Easel Corporation, which was acquired by VMARK. ) design to implementation. The tight integration of CoWare's SystemC-based ConvergenSC(TM) system-on-chip (SoC) design tools and Forte's Cynthesizer(TM) SystemC behavioral synthesis product unites system architecture, simulation, and synthesis in a first-of-its kind flow. Users can explore and validate a design's system architecture in CoWare's ConvergenSC, then synthesize to 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; using Forte's Cynthesizer, and verify the RTL in a system context with the same SystemC model. Expanding Adoption of ESL Design "Integrating behavioral synthesis into our SystemC flow accelerates adoption by automating the path to implementation," said Mark Milligan Mark Milligan (born August 4, 1985 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian football (soccer) player who currently plays for Australian A-League club Sydney FC. He is a utility defender, originally known as a Right-Back, but more recently playing in both Central Defence and Central , vice president of marketing, CoWare. "By joining forces with Forte, ConvergenSC and Cynthesizer will help ease the adoption of ESL methodologies for our customers. We are proud to partner with the leader in behavioral synthesis to deliver this solution." "With the integration of ConvergenSC and Cynthesizer, we are providing our customers with a new way of creating their SystemC designs, and a faster way of verifying them," said Brett Cline, vice president of marketing at Forte. "By partnering with the industry leader in system-level design, our customers have access to a more complete SystemC design environment to ease adoption and allow them to realize the benefits of ESL design faster." Both System and Hardware Designers to Benefit System designers developing platforms and SoC architectures in SystemC need an automated path to implementation to help them avoid manual re-work and to prevent divergence between their SystemC model and the optimal RTL implementation. Now, ConvergenSC users can automatically generate RTL for targeted subsystem blocks using Cynthesizer, and then validate candidate RTL implementations in the system with embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. . Hardware designers adopting SystemC behavioral synthesis need simulation to functionally verify their design before and after synthesis. With this integration, Cynthesizer users now have access to high-performance commercial simulation with powerful multi-thread SystemC debugging and SystemC/HDL co-simulation with ConvergenSC. The combined solution provides a fast path from SystemC to high quality, re-targetable RTL. Availability ConvergenSC 2004.2 is available immediately from CoWare. For more information, contact your local sales office or visit www.coware.com. Cynthesizer 2.3.4 is available immediately from Forte. For more information, contact your local sales office or visit www.ForteDS.com. About CoWare ConvergenSC CoWare ConvergenSC speeds the concurrent design of SoCs with embedded software. The ConvergenSC product family combines hardware/software partitioning and platform assembly together with simulation, debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. and analysis capabilities. Together with the ConvergenSC Model Library, the largest IP model library for SystemC, customers can rapidly create and validate SoC designs at the transaction level in SystemC. For pricing information, contact your local sales office. For more information on ConvergenSC and CoWare's other products, visit www.coware.com. About Forte Cynthesizer Forte's Cynthesizer significantly reduces the time needed to create complex chips and systems by automatically generating high-quality RTL designs from high-level algorithms. Cynthesizer is silicon proven with uncompromising quality of results that often exceed hand coded RTL. It is the only behavioral synthesis product that offers designers a complete environment including synthesis, verification, and co-simulation. Cynthesizer has been used on over 60 designs and is in production use in many of the largest systems and semiconductor companies worldwide. About CoWare CoWare is the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation (EDA) software tools and services. CoWare offers a comprehensive set of electronic system-level (ESL) tools that enable SoC developers to "differentiate by design" through the creation of system-IP including embedded processors, on-chip buses, and DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive algorithms; the architecture of optimized SoC platforms; and hardware/software co-design. The company's solutions are based on open industry standards including SystemC. CoWare's customers are major systems, semiconductor, and IP companies in the market where consumer electronics, computing, and communications converge. CoWare's corporate investors include ARM Ltd. ((LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor :ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)), Cadence Design Systems (company) Cadence Design Systems - A company that sells electronic design automation software and services. http://cadence.com/. See also Verilog. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. ), ST Microelectronics (NYSE:STM (Scanning Tunneling Microscope) A microscope that can image down to the atomic level. An STM uses a piezoelectric tube with a tiny sharp tip at the end that is moved within nanometers of the object being sampled. ), and Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE SNe Supernovae (astronomy) SNE Sony Corporation (stock symbol) SNE Syndicat National de l'edition (French Publisher's Association) SNE Society for Nutrition Education ). CoWare is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., and has offices around the world. For more information about CoWare and its products and services, visit http://www.coware.com. About Forte Design Systems Forte Design Systems is a leading provider of software products that enable design at a higher level of abstraction The level of complexity by which a system is viewed. The higher the level, the less detail. The lower the level, the more detail. The highest level of abstraction is the single system itself. . Forte's innovative Cynthesizer behavioral synthesis product allows design teams creating complex electronic systems from algorithmic designs using ASICs, SoCs, and FPGAs to significantly reduce their overall design and verification time. Forte is headquartered at 100 Century Center Court, San Jose, CA 95112. For more information, visit www.ForteDS.com. ConvergenSC and LISATek are trademarks of CoWare, Inc. CoWare is a registered trademark of CoWare, Inc. in the United States. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Cynthesizer is a trademark of Forte Design Systems. |
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