Forte Design Systems and Summit Design Join Forces to Deliver an Enhanced Systemc to RTL Design, Synthesis, and Verification Environment.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. & LOS ALTOS Los Altos (lôs ăl`tōs, lŏs), residential city (1990 pop. 26,303), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1952. There is diversified light manufacturing. , Calif. -- Integration of Cynthesizer and Vista SystemC IDE Greatly Improves Design Team Productivity and Workflow Management Forte Design Systems, the leading provider of software products that enable higher level design, and Summit Design, Inc., a leading provider of 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. ) and hardware description language (language) Hardware Description Language - (HDL) A kind of language used for the conceptual design of integrated circuits. Examples are VHDL and Verilog. (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. ) design solutions, today announced their collaboration to deliver an integrated solution that combines the strengths of the Vista(TM) SystemC IDE and Cynthesizer(TM) SystemC synthesis products. This cooperation delivers a validated and supported flow that improves validation of SystemC behavioral code specifically targeted for Cynthesizer, providing a highly-productive design and verification flow. Working with common customers who use Vista together with Cynthesizer, Summit and Forte have developed a proven, integrated flow. In the combined flow, designers use Vista as an integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE) for design creation, simulation and debugging. The verified SystemC behavioral designs are then automatically input to Cynthesizer to produce high-quality 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; hardware implementations. This flow accelerates the path from SystemC to verified RTL, yielding better results in less time. "We've been working with our customers and partners to continuously enhance support for the Cynthesizer production flow," said Brett Cline, vice president of customer operations and corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. at Forte Design Systems. "Integrating Vista with our industry-leading Cynthesizer will provide an enhanced SystemC flow, including creation, 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 behavioral synthesis, reducing the time necessary to create complex ASICs and SoCs." "Summit sees this collaboration as an important way to further accelerate the adoption of SystemC by completing the link from SystemC specification to RTL implementation," said Emil Girczyc, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Summit Design. "Vista provides the level of debug and insight that customers need in order to more easily develop SystemC designs for Cynthesizer. For users, this results in faster time from specification to verified RTL." About Forte's Cynthesizer Forte's Cynthesizer is an innovative behavioral synthesis and design product that delivers an automated implementation path from SystemC to RTL. Cynthesizer, which is used for production at more than 15 leading semiconductor and systems companies, accelerates RTL delivery for leading-edge integrated circuits and systems-on-chip by automatically generating optimized RTL code from a SystemC behavioral description. Cynthesizer users experience a significant reduction in overall design time while improving quality of results. About Summit's Vista IDE Vista is a design environment for SystemC that combines both hardware and software concepts to speed design and debug of SystemC applications. It is easy to adopt, since it builds upon the industry standard gnu tools. It's unique Data Introspection, design exploration and debugging features make for more rapid understanding of designs and the verification process. Vista also offers advanced coding facilities, browsers, and a verification toolset targeted for high-level and transaction-level modeling. The unique debugging capabilities are possible because of its in-depth understanding of SystemC. 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 behavioral synthesis technology allows design teams creating complex electronic systems from algorithmic designs using ASICs, FPGAs, and SoCs 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. About Summit Summit Design's industry-leading ESL and HDL solutions enable SOC companies to deliver products that meet system-level performance and power targets with dramatically reduced schedule risk. Summit's products address engineering challenges met during the specification and implementation design phases of complex hardware/software systems. System Architect(TM) enables massive increases in design complexity and performance by analyzing architectural tradeoffs to arrive at optimized system specifications. Vista(TM) and Visual Elite(TM) ensure swift, successful design modeling and implementation in SystemC, Verilog, and 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. . Top electronics companies worldwide, including leaders in the wireless, automotive, and consumer electronics space, have achieved dramatic reductions in design cycle time through their use of Summit's products. Summit Design is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. with offices throughout the US, Europe, Japan, Israel, and ROA ROA See: Return on assets ROA See: Right of accumulation ROA See return on assets (ROA). . To learn more, please visit http://www.sd.com. All trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned in this news release are the intellectual property of their respective owners. |
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