CynApps and TransModeling Announce SystemModeler Supports Cynlib to Speed System-Level Design Entry and Verification.

Business Editors/Technology Writers

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 2, 2000

TransModeling, Inc. and CynApps today announced the availability of SystemModeler, a system-level entry and verification environment that generates C++ code based on the popular Cynlib class library. TransModeling's SystemModeler simplifies system-level design using C++ by providing both textual and graphical entry through an intuitive graphical user interface. Using SystemModeler, Cynlib, and a standard C++ compiler, complete system designs can be created and simulated. Designs can be carried to implementation by using CynApps' Cynthesizer.

"We are pleased that TransModeling has released SystemModeler to support graphical design entry with C++/Cynlib," said Dr. John Sanguinetti, president of CynApps. "This is a key tool which enhances the C++/Cynlib design environment, the richest C-based design environment available."

SystemModeler is a general-purpose system level design tool for developing high-speed C++ models and test benches. Designs can be incrementally developed at any level of granularity from transaction to bit- and cycle-accurate models. SystemModeler automatically generates module declaration, instantiation, and inter-connect code, yielding significant productivity improvement. Up to 80 percent of the design does not have to be debugged or maintained, providing a significant reduction in the development cycle.

"SystemModeler is the first commercially available tool to generate C++ code based on CynApps' Cynlib C++ open-source class libraries," stated William B. Weeks Jr., vice president of sales and marketing at TransModeling. "TransModeling is very excited to be working with CynApps to provide world-class solutions to the design community."

SystemModeler's text entry does not require a comprehensive knowledge of C++, just the basics: assignments, conditionals, and loops. In addition, designs can be entered graphically without any understanding of C++. Entering algorithms in C++ is easy for any designer with VHDL/Verilog experience. Design navigation is simple, easier to understand, document, and debug, resulting in a much shorter design cycle.

With SystemModeler as the point of design entry and model representation in C++/Cynlib, a complete flow from design entry to gates is available. Tools from the CynApps Suite provide the capability to debug, simulate, and synthesize industrial-strength hardware models.

Both the SystemModeler and the CynApps Suite are available now on Windows NT / 98 and Unix platforms. The list price of SystemModeler is $20,000. The list price of the CynApps Suite is $100,000.

About TransModeling

TransModeling, Inc., an Electronic Design Automation (EDA) Products and Services company, was incorporated in November 1999. TransModeling graphical and text entry enables the rapid development of system-level designs in C++. Both C++ and Hardware Description Language (HDL) models can be verified using SystemModeler's transparent parallel simulation environment. This significantly increases the speed of simulation and reduces the time to produce system-level models of integrated circuits.

TransModeling Inc. headquarters are located in Portland, Ore., and can be reached at [phone], or on the web at www.TransModeling.com.

About CynApps

CynApps was founded in 1998 to develop tools to support the use of higher levels of abstraction for hardware design. By enabling C++ to be used as a hardware description language through the development of the Cynlib(R) class library, CynApps has eliminated the need to manually rewrite an algorithm using a language such as Verilog or VHDL prior to synthesis. Cynlib is available under an open-source license.

The company now offers a complete tool suite that supports successive elaboration of an abstract C/C++ description into a hardware description, to be synthesized automatically. The Cynlib environment is the most complete C++ design environment available today. CynApps has its worldwide headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif. and can be reached at [phone], or on the web at www.cynapps.com.