Renesas Technology Corp. Selects Y Explorations for C-based IC Design Flow.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

LAKE FOREST, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 2003

Renesas Technology Corp. has selected Y Explorations's (YXI) ANSI-C to RTL synthesis tool, eXCite, along with YXI's technology for high-level and interface synthesis, for a C-based IC design flow.

In addition, YXI and Renesas will jointly develop YXI's next generation C-based synthesis tool for high quality IC designs that will allow RTL synthesis from cycle-accurate or cycle-constrained behavioral input descriptions described in an ANSI-C based language.

"We have chosen to work with YXI based on their high-level and interface synthesis expertise, as well as YXI's history of success in developing behavioral and interface synthesis from high level abstractions, such as ANSI C," said Yoshio Okamura, Executive Manager of Design Technology Div., LSI Product Technology Unit at Renesas Technology Corp.

"With the new cycle-constrained, C-based synthesis flow, we expect our LSI designers, as well as our customers, to be able to use YXI's eXCite software to obtain the best architecture trade-off and performance possible.

"In addition, we expect significant reductions in specification verification and design time due to the C-based design flow. This will help our LSI designers, as well as our customers, realize a greatly improved time-to-market."

Viraphol Chaiyakul, President and CEO of YXI, said: "In order to bring our next generation C-based design flow into mainstream use, it must be used to successfully develop ASICs and SoC designs that demand faster speed, smaller area, and accurate cycle or timing constraints. YXI is working closely with our users and partners towards satisfying that requirement."

As part of the joint development, both parties will develop an extension to ISO/ANSI C, called HY-C, to support hardware constructs, such as cycle constraints, communication, and parallelism. The language will also support simulation and verification using equivalence and model checking technology. Multiple clock hardware design will also be supported.

About eXCite

YXI's eXCite is a complete ISO/ANSI-C to RTL synthesis tool. eXCite accepts input in ISO/ANSI-C with few restrictions or modeling guidelines and uses leading-edge timing, performance and area-driven interface, behavioral and architecture synthesis engines to satisfy tight design requirements for implementation as semiconductor devices, or as FPGAs for protyping or emulation.

Platform libraries are provided for co-design, co-verification, co-simulation and SoC integration. eXCite also supports extensions to ISO/ANSI-C to specify cycle, pipeline, concurrency and architecture behaviors and constraints.

About Y Explorations

Y Explorations Inc. is a pioneer in the field of electronic design automation software that enables the rapid and effective design of embedded systems and reuse of complex semiconductors. YXI's products are used by designers of integrated circuits including system-on-a-chip, for next-generation telecommunication and networking systems and devices, as well as portable electronic products such as cell phones, computers and printers. YXI's behavioral and interface synthesis software allows a seamless design flow between design specification and today's hardware design flow.

The company is located in Orange County, Calif.'s Spectrum Technology Center at 25691 Atlantic Ocean Drive, Suite B17, Lake Forest, CA 92630. Telephone [phone], Fax [phone], e-mail: [e-mail]; www.yxi.com.