Sequence, Bluespec Team To Offer Users ESL Design Optimized For Performance, Area, Power.SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Offering users 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. productivity combined with an ability to analyze various architectures for performance, area, and power is the goal of a collaborative effort between Sequence Design and Bluespec, Inc. The ESL tool market, expected to achieve nearly 36 percent CAGR CAGR See: Compound Annual Growth Rate over the next five years according to Gartner Dataquest, is growing thanks to SoC designers looking for higher productivity and reduced time to market. Demos will be available at DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter by appointment in both the Sequence booth (1614), and Bluespec (4163). To schedule with Sequence contact gbhatta@sequencedesign.com; for Bluespec, contact sales@bluespec.com. "Performance, area, and power are the three competitive technology parameters for SoC design," said Bluespec 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. , Shiv shiv n. Slang A knife, razor, or other sharp or pointed implement, especially one used as a weapon. [Probably Romany chiv, blade.] Noun 1. Tasker. "Sequence's PowerTheater power management solution and Bluespec's ESL synthesis technology combine perfectly to optimize all of these critical variables." Bluespec's ESL Synthesis automatically synthesizes 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; implementations from high-level design descriptions, including recently announced support for SystemC. Bluespec's integration with Sequence's PowerTheater allows ESL Synthesis to generate multiple trial configurations and then run PowerTheater to estimate power at RTL and, later, at the gate level. The generated power data allows users to examine tradeoffs for performance, area, and power to optimize the design's power profile early in the design cycle. "In a recent design, to be published at this year's MEMOCODE MEMOCODE Conference on Formal Methods and Programming Models for Codesign conference, architects evaluated seven different architectures for a Wi-Fi transmitter quickly and easily with this combined flow," according to Tasker. "They were astounded a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, to find that their intuitions were wrong and that the critical areas for reducing power were not where they suspected. Armed with accurate data, they were able to create an optimal design that they know is verifiably the best." "Bluespec is on a mission to reduce the cost, time to market, and complexity of SoC design," said Sequence president and CEO, Vic Kulkarni. "Today, people use power estimates to spec the design, because it's typically too hard to change by the time they can get an RTL assessment - what they need is early and frequent feedback before they lock in the particular macro/micro architectural approach, which is precisely what can now be done by using PowerTheater in the ESL flow." The integrated solution is currently available for users of Sequence and Bluespec products. About PowerTheater PowerTheater is the industry standard for low-power design at RTL. Capabilities include accurate RTL power analysis closely correlated to actual silicon; power management tools that allow designers to reduce power at RTL using "what-if" scenarios and make early tradeoffs at the architectural level; power vector forward technology to select vectors for downstream analysis, feeding them to later stages of the design cycle for gate-level verification and voltage-drop analysis; and gate-level power verification, preventing power creep. For more information: http://www.sequencedesign.com/2_solutions/2b_power_theater.html. About Bluespec Bluespec, Inc. manufactures an industry standards-based 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. ) toolset that significantly raises the 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. for hardware design while retaining the ability to automatically synthesize high quality RTL, without compromising speed, power or area. The toolset, the only one focused on control and complex datapaths, allows 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. and 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. designers to significantly reduce design time, bugs and re-spins that contribute to product delays and escalating costs. More information can be found on www.bluespec.com or by calling 781-250-2200. About Sequence Sequence Design accelerates the ability of SoC designers to bring high-performance, power-aware ICs quickly to market. Sequence's power and signal-integrity software solutions give customers the competitive advantage necessary to excel in aggressive technology markets, despite the demanding complexity and time-to-market issues of nanometer design. Sequence serves over 150 customers worldwide, in application segments such as consumer, wireless, mobile computing, multimedia, cell phones, digital cameras, network-on-chip processors, and other power-sensitive markets. The company was named by Reed Electronics as one of the top 10 companies to watch in the electronics industry, and was recently selected as one of high-tech's Top 100 companies by siliconindia magazine. Sequence has worldwide development and field-service operations and is privately held. Please see sequencedesign.com. All trademarks mentioned herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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