Cogent Defence Systems Selects Celoxica's DK1 for Military Communications Designs; Software Development Methodologies Applied to Accelerate the Design of New Communications Hardware.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ABINGDON, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 29, 2001 Military communications Military communications, or Signals, is a field of military activities, tactics and equipment dealing with communications. First of all, military communications are battlefield (combat) communications, including intercommunication with a higher command or country's systems specialist, Cogent Defence Systems has signed a three-year deal to use Celoxica's DK1 design suite. Cogent signed the agreement following a successful long-term evaluation of DK1 against its existing design tools, under Celoxica's beta partner program. Following successful completion of the evaluation project, Cogent is now using DK1 on live designs including elements of the satellite to ground link for the Bowman communications system In telecommunication, a communications system is a collection of individual communications networks, transmission systems, relay stations, tributary stations, and data terminal equipment (DTE) usually capable of interconnection and interoperation to form an integrated whole. . "Our evaluation of DK1 clearly demonstrated that the flow increases our engineering throughput, and allows us to make better use of our scarce hardware engineering resources," said Andy Davey, senior engineer at Cogent Defence Systems, "Using Celoxica's Handel-C to hardware flow, our software engineers can take a software solution through to hardware allowing the hardware designer to focus on system integration and optimization." Dennis Nye senior vice president, worldwide sales and marketing, Celoxica Limited, added, "DK1 is ideal for Cogent as it allows their software designers to implement complex, processor intensive algorithms in hardware, giving them access to the acceleration that a hardware implementation brings, without in-depth knowledge of the hardware platform." DK1 Features and Benefits The DK1 design suite targets the design, validation, iterative refinement and implementation of complex algorithms in hardware. It includes built-in design entry, simulation, and synthesis -- all driven by Handel-C, a design-entry language based on ANSI C (language, standard) ANSI C - (American National Standards Institute C) A revision of C, adding function prototypes, structure passing, structure assignment and standardised library functions. ANSI X3.159-1989. cgram is a grammar for ANSI C, written in Scheme. that combines parallelism with a central timing model. Developers with knowledge of the C programming language find DK1's Handel-C language simple to use. With its intuitive hardware-specific constructs, Handel-C lets software developers quickly code hardware designs. DK1's integrated Handel-C-to-gate-level synthesis and optimization eliminates the need for any interim HDL (Hardware Description Language) A language used to describe the functions of an electronic circuit for documentation, simulation or logic synthesis (or all three). Although many proprietary HDLs have been developed, Verilog and VHDL are the major standards. stage or the need to maintain any additional code stream. The integrated Handel-C compiler lets developers generate optimized EDIF EDIF - Electronic Design Interchange Format. Not a programming language, but a format to simplify data transfer between CAD/CAE systems. LISP-like syntax. See also Berkeley EDIF200. E-mail: <edif-support@cs.man.ac.uk> ftp://edif.cs.man.ac.uk/pub/edif. netlists appropriate for targeting FPGAs using FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. manufacturers' tools. In addition, DK1 can optionally generate VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) A hardware description language (HDL) used to design electronic systems at the component, board and system level. VHDL allows models to be developed at a very high level of abstraction. for traditional ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. flows. About Cogent Defence Systems Cogent Defence Systems is a UK leader in defense & security telecommunications systems and is currently a division of a Nortel Networks' UK subsidiary. About Celoxica Celoxica helps electronics manufacturers manage design complexity in the development of embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. . The company's products and services overcome system performance bottlenecks, improve designer productivity and address design skills shortages. By creating and leading the world of reconfigurable electronics, Celoxica is enabling customers to develop a new breed of highly flexible, hardware-accelerated products. Celoxica has alliances and partnerships with Altera Corporation, Wind River Systems Inc. and Xilinx, Inc. The company is headquartered in Abingdon, UK, with additional offices in Campbell, California, USA; Yokahama, Japan; and Singapore. Note to Editors: Celoxica and the Celoxica logo are the trademarks of Celoxica Limited. Any other trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. For reader enquiries please contact: Will Golby, VP Communications, Celoxica Limited, 20 Park Gate, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, QX14 4SH, United Kingdom, telephone +44 (0)1235 863656, facsimile +44 (0)1235 863 648. For more information about Celoxica, visit www.celoxica.com. For sales enquiries contact: Americas -- sales.americas@celoxica.com; APAC APAC Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing APAC Agricultural Policy Analysis Center APAC Asia and Pacific APAC Asian Pacific American Coalition APAC Adapted Physical Activity Council (American Alliance for Health) -- sales.apac@celoxica.com; Europe, Middle East, Africa -- emeasales@celoxica.com. |
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