LISATek Announces New Release of Its Unified Product Suite for Next-Generation Embedded Processor Design; New Tool Suite Integrated with Synopsys CoCentric System Studio.Business Editors, Technology Writers MENLO PARK Menlo Park. 1 Residential city (1990 pop. 28,040), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1874. Electronic equipment and aerospace products are manufactured in the city. Menlo College and a Stanford Univ. research institute are there. 2 Uninc. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2002 LISATek(R), a company revolutionizing the design of embedded processors A CPU chip used in a system other than a general purpose workstation, desktop or laptop computer. Such chips are used by the billions every year in a myriad of products. See embedded system. for system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, announced a new release of its tool suite for the automated design of embedded processors used in SoCs and integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. (ICs). All tools in the suite -- the EDGE(TM) Processor Designer, RIM(TM) Software Designer, and HUB(TM) System Integrator See systems integrator. -- have significant new features, and are now integrated with Synopsys(R) CoCentric(R) System Studio. LISATek's technology is based on a single description language, LISA The first personal computer to include integrated software and use a graphical interface. Modeled after the Xerox Star and introduced in 1983 by Apple, it was ahead of its time, but never caught on due to its $10,000 price and slow speed. 2.0 (Language for Instruction Set Architecture), which is an extension to C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++. The company's products provide increased productivity to designers of embedded processors for SoCs and to vendors of ICs, application specific standard products (ASSPs), and embedded processors. LISATek's products comprise a complete, unified platform for faster embedded processor design and verification. Integration with Synopsys CoCentric System Studio The CoCentric System Studio SystemC(TM) simulator (1) Software that enables the execution of an application written for a different computer environment. Same as emulator. (2) Software that models the interactions of hypothetical or real-world objects or business processes. enables the joint verification and analysis of algorithms To analyze an algorithm is to determine the amount of resources (such as time and storage) necessary to execute it. Most algorithms are designed to work with inputs of arbitrary length. , architectures, hardware, and software at multiple levels of abstraction In object technology, determining the essential characteristics of an object. Abstraction is one of the basic principles of object-oriented design, which allows for creating user-defined data types, known as objects. See object-oriented programming and encapsulation. 1. . The transaction-level simulation capability in System Studio delivers the performance designers need to create a virtual prototype of an SoC, quickly close on the SoC's architecture, and immediately proceed with the development and verification of the SoC's 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. . "LISATek's tool suite works seamlessly with CoCentric System Studio to expedite ex·pe·dite tr.v. ex·pe·dit·ed, ex·pe·dit·ing, ex·pe·dites 1. To speed up the progress of; accelerate. 2. the design and architectural optimization optimization Field of applied mathematics whose principles and methods are used to solve quantitative problems in disciplines including physics, biology, engineering, and economics. of embedded processors within the context of an SoC," said Joachim Kunkel, vice president and general manager, System Level Design at Synopsys, Inc. "The combination of System Studio and the SystemC transaction-level embedded processor models generated by LISATek's tool suite delivers the simulation performance needed to address the most demanding applications, including wireless and broadband networking." New Version of LISATek Product Suite Features Significant New Functionality -- EDGE Processor Designer: A complete and fully integrated toolset that facilitates design of embedded processors including microcontrollers (iCs), digital signal processors (DSPs), network processors (NPUs), and application specific processors (ASIPs). EDGE also generates tools for processor exploration and automatically facilitates interactive editing of a design. The new release of EDGE includes advanced memory simulation modeling capabilities, multi-processing tools and Bus model generators. -- RIM Software Designer: A full software development environment for the embedded processors that are automatically generated using EDGE. It is comprised of LISATek simulators including JIT-CC(TM) -- the fastest instruction set simulator available -- plus code generation tools (assembler and linker), disassembler, and debugger. New features include multi-loader support for common object file format (COFF), executable and linking format (ELF), and IntelHEX, as well as user-defined formats, plus instruction history recording to support application debugging. -- HUB System Integrator: A toolset that enables hardware designers to integrate and verify EPs generated by EDGE into a SoC environment. The new release of HUB includes a multiprocessor simulation capability to verify heterogeneous systems of embedded processors with a user-defined number of debuggers. It also features a re-targetable simulation application programming interface (API) for easy customization and interfacing with different SoC design environments, including Synopsys' CoCentric System Studio. Pricing and Availability LISATek's unified product suite, version 2002.2, is available immediately worldwide for Solaris 2.7 and 2.8, Linux, and Windows NT/2000 platforms. Module pricing starts at $50,000 (U.S.). Visit http://www.lisatek.com/products.html for more information. About LISATek LISATek is a privately held 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. ) company founded in 2001. Its products are based on technology developed at Aachen University of Technology, Germany. The company offers a revolutionary platform for the design of embedded processors for system-on-chip (SoC) solutions. LISATek's instruction set simulator An Instruction Set Simulator (ISS) is a simulation model, usually, but by no means always, coded in a high-level language, which mimics the behavior of a mainframe or microprocessor by "reading" instructions and maintaining internal variables which represent the processor's , JIT-CC(TM), is the fastest available today. Its unified tool suite, comprised of the EDGE(TM) Processor Designer, HUB(TM) System Integrator, and RIM(TM) Software Designer, is a complete solution that automatically generates of all necessary tools for embedded processor design, embedded software development and for the integration and verification of embedded processors within a system-on-chip (SoC) environment. LISATek tools, software and hardware descriptions can now be based on a single specification, dramatically improving embedded processor design productivity for processor, SoC, and software designers. For more information, visit http://www.lisatek.com or contact LISATek Inc. at 190 Sand Hill Circle, Menlo Park, Calif. 94025 U.S.A.; telephone 650/233-4344 or email info@lisatek.com. LISATek GmbH can be reached at Technologiezentrum am Europaplatz, Dennewartstrasse 25-27, 52068 Aachen, Germany; by telephone at +49 241 9631510; or by fax at +49 241 9631519. Note: LISATek is a registered trademark and EDGE, HUB, RIM, and JIT-CC are trademarks of LISATek. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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