Summit Design Licenses IBM PowerPC Models For Its SystemC IP Initiative To Enable Easier IP Selection, Integration and Interoperability.IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) SystemC Models Support Advanced Architectural Exploration and System-Level 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. Capabilities of Summit Design's Panorama and Vista Tools 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. -- 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 that it has licensed SystemC models for the PowerPC[R] core and the associated bus and peripheral devices from IBM. These models will be offered as part of Summit's growing SystemC IP portfolio library. The combination of the IBM models and the Summit Design tool suite offer enhanced functionality for architectural exploration and system-level debug. The PowerPC models support the advanced debugging capabilities of Summit's Vista[TM] Integrated Design The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. Environment (IDE) for SystemC, including data introspection and advanced multi-thread debugging. Vista's transaction sequence viewer enables users to effectively monitor and debug system activity at the transaction level. The IBM models will also be integrated with Visual Elite[TM], Summit's design, integration and verification platform, which enables designers to intuitively capture and validate their designs while also providing support for the management of design files and effective team collaboration. The PowerPC models will support Panorama's advanced system-level performance and power analysis capabilities. This enables design teams to perform "what-if" analysis early in the design cycle to optimize their system-level design. "At IBM, we are dedicated to supporting advanced technologies, such as ESL, to allow designers to make informed decisions early in the design process," says Ron Martino, Director, Power Architecture Offerings, IBM Technology Collaboration Solutions. "Summit Design can help our mutual customers accelerate the time to market for PowerPC core-based designs with Panorama's architectural analysis capabilities. The ability to quickly evaluate design trade-offs at the system-level with other IP models gives our PowerPC customers a huge advantage." "The IBM PowerPC models represent an important addition to our SystemC IP portfolio of IP vendor authored SystemC models," 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, Inc. "We are seeing high demand for the 'plug and play' SystemC models in our portfolio, so we are working closely with a number of premier IP providers, such as IBM, to provide our customers with the means to quickly and easily achieve better IP selection, integration and interoperability success. Now, PowerPC customers will be able to mix and match IBM models with Summit generic SystemC models, and IP models from other vendors in the IP Initiative, to simplify system-level design and verification." Availability The PowerPC core, bus, and peripheral models are currently available with Vista. Support for Visual Elite and Panorama is scheduled for Q4, 2006. 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. Panorama[TM] allows designers to perform real-time application emulation of both the hardware and software portions of an embedded SoC, before core and IP selections are finalized. Vista[TM] is an integrated development environment See IDE. integrated development environment - interactive development environment (IDE) for SystemC that combines both hardware and software concepts to speed design and debug of SystemC and TLM TLM Telemetry TLM Transaction Level Modeling TLM Tout Le Monde (French) TLM The Leprosy Mission (Northern Ireland) TLM Transmission Line Matrix TLM The Little Mermaid (fairy tale) applications. Visual Elite[TM] is a state-of-the-art design, integration and verification platform which enables designers to intuitively capture and validate their designs using high-level design techniques and languages. 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. 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