Summit Design Introduces New Advances in ESL and Delivers Native SystemC in Visual Elite 4.0 to Provide an Industry Leading Modeling, Verification and Performance Analysis platform.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers Design Automation Conference 2004 BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 31, 2004 Visual Elite Native SystemC Platform Unleashes Maximum Productivity and Ramps SystemC Language Adoption Summit Design, Inc., the world leader in 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. ) design solutions and methodologies, today announced it will introduce its latest Visual Elite(TM) ESL product at DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter 2004. The innovative Visual Elite ESL product line now features Advanced SystemC Modeling and Analysis offering a state-of-the-art front-end, along with complete native text support. Until now, other tools have been oriented specifically to either hardware or 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 ++. Summit Design is delivering the first tool that can bridge this gap and take full advantage of the language abstraction and power, freeing engineers to successfully use it in the context of their complex system chips. Visual Elite 4.0 is the very first product offering built-in SystemC-native constructs that accelerate modeling and verification, making it intuitive for hardware designers as well as to C/C++ coders. One of the primary barriers in the adoption of SystemC is that it is software-oriented for hardware designers, while lacking some of the hardware notations. Today, this is being addressed through the newest Visual Elite platform that allows users to employ the powerful language constructs through an intuitive front-end and powerful verification and analysis tools. By supporting a complete native SystemC file structure, there is no need for importing or special instrumentation that are limiting the scope of the language that can be supported. Visual Elite users are free to utilize any existing designs with the Visual tool-set. "Visual Elite 4.0 introduces a new generation in ESL that facilitates the adoption of system level modeling in general, and SystemC in specific. To best serve the demanding needs of our industry-leading customers, we have invested significant resources in adjusting our front-end and verification tool-set to a real system level tool that allows engineers to easily model complex systems while leveraging all the power of the C/C++ language, as well as full integration with 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. ," said Rami rami [L.] plural of ramus. rami communicantes bundles of nerve fibers connecting a sympathetic ganglion to spinal nerve; categorized as gray rami (unmyelinated postganglionic fibers) or white rami (myelinated preganglionic Rachamin, director of marketing for Summit. "We believe this advanced system platform will dramatically reduce the adoption phase of ESL and ensure ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). ." Visual offers the first SystemC-centric platform with "viewing duality" into the code from a language and from a design perspective. Users can have a clear hardware-centric view of the design structure (module hierarchy and interfaces), side by side with a C/C++ view on the language structure (classes, etc.). Those browsers offer a lot of value in having a clear view over the dependencies of the design constructs, either hardware or software related, which is of great value when coding C/C++ and helps with the design process and identifying problems. All those view browsers, along with the text editor, are fully synchronized and active during modeling and simulation, providing engineers with powerful insight into the structure and the execution of the design. The Advanced SystemC Modeling offers users Hierarchical Channel constructs with an Interface Pin, Binder Object, List and visualization of the inherited Interface classes. Also included is a SystemC oriented GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. to all C/C++ declarations and object types with special attribute wizards that organize these attributes, making it easy to define and maintain them. System verification tools Visual 4.0 offers new transaction level verification tools including a transaction view in waveform, hierarchical channels, and interface method calls. Also included are Threads switching monitors allowing the user to switch and monitor all threads in the waiting queue, Stack visualization and Watch windows, as well as "on text" object value feedbacks. Visual Elite also allows debugging during design Elaboration. To leverage transactions level communication and queues and optimize verification, users need to have the same high-level view in the waveform, therefore Visual allows higher abstraction views during verification that fit the abstraction level See level of abstraction. of the design itself. The System Architect package now supports a unique visualization of tokens distribution in the graphical waveform (Data Flow Diagram A description of data and the manual and machine processing performed on the data as it moves and changes from one stage to the next. It also includes the locations where the data are placed in permanent storage (disk, tape, etc.). ), and offers a new set of generic models for bus, processors, etc, as well as a PCI bus PCI bus - Peripheral Component Interconnect and IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394 performance models. Visual's System Architect package offers a set of functions and classes written on top of SystemC that can be instrumented into SystemC functional code and trace and log "tokens" of data. Later on that can be analyzed and perform statistical analysis allowing users to quickly discern relevant performance statistics -- such as latency, bandwidth and resource utilization. Visual Elite now supports graphical state machines and mapping of SystemC 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; to 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. , utilizing Summit FastC(R) technology, which offers orders of magnitude in SystemC simulation performance. This ability allows Visual to offer users high performance simulation for RT-level SystemC. In this way, users can employ SystemC for actual design (not just modeling) with high performance simulation and a direct path to synthesis. Pricing and availability Visual Elite is priced starting from $15K and is available for Beta release See beta version. . About Summit Design Summit Design is a leading international supplier of software products addressing engineering challenges met during the specification and implementation design phases of complex hardware/software systems. The world's top electronics companies use Summit Design's products to increase engineering productivity, shorten time-to-market, and improve product quality. Summit Design is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. with offices in Europe, Japan, Israel, and ROA ROA See: Return on assets ROA See: Right of accumulation ROA See return on assets (ROA). . For more information on Summit and its products, visit http://www.sd.com. Visual Elite, System Architect and Summit FastC(R) technology are trademarks of Summit Design, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners. |
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