Summit Design Solidifies Leadership In Architecture Exploration And Analysis With Exclusive Licensing of CARDtools Systems Technology.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. -- NitroVP(TM) Adds Proven Technology for the Design of Hardware and Software Architecture to Summit's Advanced 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. Tool Suite E[acute accent acute accent n. A mark (´) indicating: a. that a vowel is close or tense, as é in French été. b. that a vowel or syllable has a high or rising pitch, as in Chinese or Ancient Greek. c. ]Summit Design, Inc., a leading provider of electronic system-level (ESL) design solutions, today announced it has obtained an exclusive license to the NitroVP(TM) product and related technologies from CARDtools Systems Corp, headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . NitroVP has been used by leading electronics companies worldwide to understand SoC architecture issues such as bus architecture strategies, software/hardware interaction, component sizing, performance bottlenecks, and other partitioning and/or performance considerations. Providing a complete modeling and simulation environment for hardware, software and systems at different levels of abstraction, the NitroVP technology also serves as a deployment mechanism of IP models for OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers. E[acute accent]"Companies designing complex SoCs must analyze architectural tradeoffs very early in the design cycle in order to truly optimize system performance and power," 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. "Customers using our System Architect product for architectural analysis of hardware systems have requested that we provide enhanced support for the software architecture issues. Acquiring the NitroVP technology significantly increases our support for software during architecture exploration and simplifies hardware/software architectural specification. This important investment in our ESL tool suite will enable us to accelerate our product development plans and our delivery of an unparalleled system-level architectural design This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. environment." E[acute accent]The explosive growth in complexity for networking, storage systems and multi-core SoCs is driving Summit's development of next-generation architecture exploration products. These products allow architects and designers of SoCs and embedded systems Embedded systems Computer systems that cannot be programmed by the user because they are preprogrammed for a specific task and are buried within the equipment they serve. to quickly evaluate system configurations, perform architecture tradeoffs, evaluate co-design tradeoffs and perform co-simulation -- all within a single design environment. By integrating NitroVP with System Architect(TM), Summit will provide increased architecture exploration and performance analysis capabilities to software architects. Customers that have employed architectural analysis to set key design decisions have improved their design quality and experienced a reduction in design rework re·work tr.v. re·worked, re·work·ing, re·works 1. To work over again; revise. 2. To subject to a repeated or new process. n. and schedule slip during implementation. E[acute accent]"NitroVP embodies several unique technologies for architecture exploration of 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. and the associated hardware platform," said Joseph Rothman, CEO of CARDtools Systems Corp. "System Architect and NitroVP are complementary, customer-proven solutions for architecture exploration and analysis, and there is tremendous synergy between the products. Summit's considerable market presence and depth of ESL expertise, make it the ideal company to further develop and enhance NitroVP's technology." E[acute accent]"As part of our roadmap, we identified critical technologies for a complete architecture exploration solution at the system-level," stated Hagay Zamir, product director, architecture products at Summit Design. "Companies are using System Architect today to analyze critical architectural tradeoffs. Combining System Architect and NitroVP will create the ideal environment of simulation, modeling, and analysis tools to explore system-level architecture issues." E[acute accent]About System Architect E[acute accent]System Architect enables SoC architects and senior designers to rapidly construct, simulate and dynamically analyze the performance of various hardware and software architecture alternatives before writing detailed hardware or software implementations. System Architect has been used by customers to improve their design quality and reduce project effort and risk for SoCs in demanding applications such as SAN, networking, digital media, and satellite communications. System Architect is available today. For details regarding this product and the value of architecture exploration and analysis, please visit www.sd.com. E[acute accent]About Summit E[acute accent]Summit Design's industry-leading ESL and 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. 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. System Architect(TM) enables massive increases in design complexity and performance by analyzing architectural tradeoffs to arrive at optimized system specifications. Vista(TM) and Visual Elite(TM) ensure swift, successful design modeling and implementation in SystemC, Verilog, and 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. . 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. Summit Design is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. with offices throughout the US, Europe, Japan, Israel, and ROA ROA See: Return on assets ROA See: Right of accumulation ROA See return on assets (ROA). . To learn more, please visit http://www.sd.com. E[acute accent]All trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned in this news release are the intellectual property of their respective owners. |
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