SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- May 19, 2010 --
Forte Design Systems,
today launched CynthesizerTM Ultra, its high-level SystemC synthesis software
tightly integrated with its CellMath product family to create better designs
faster.
Additionally, Forte's flagship Cynthesizer SystemC high-level synthesis
software, used in more than 200 production ASIC and SoC silicon tapeouts
since 2002, includes new capabilities that reduce design time, improve power
utilization and accelerate verification performance.
Both products, available now in volume shipments, simplify hardware and
electronic system level (ESL) design to improve circuit performance and
reduce chip costs.
"Cynthesizer and Cynthesizer Ultra are redefining the way hardware is
designed and making it fun for hardware designers again," says Brett Cline,
Forte's vice president of marketing and sales. "The Cynthesizer product
family raises the abstraction level of design by automating mundane tasks
while providing the quality of results, power reduction and support for the
overall ESL design flow required for cutting edge hardware design."
Forte's CellMath technology and patented intellectual property (IP) offers
improved quality of results by creating better datapath components.
Integrating Cynthesizer with CellMath DesignerTM datapath optimization and
CellMath intellectual property (IP) gives design teams a way to create
better designs using more optimized building blocks faster.
Cynthesizer Ultra uses CellMath Designer as an embedded datapath
optimization capability to create datapath components as needed for use in
the high-level synthesis process. These products work together to perform
automated design-space exploration that will search for the best set of
components for each individual design. With these techniques, Cynthesizer
Ultra improves power consumption and timing, and reduces area by up to 40%
compared to previous versions.
Cynthesizer Ultra adds access to the CellMath IP library including
advanced, floating point functional units used by leading-edge graphics
companies. This IP can be accessed directly from SystemC through an
automated flow.
Cynthesizer includes a new schedule analysis detail view. This allows
designers to converge on their final design more quickly by giving them
specific direction to correct or improve areas of the design that may not
meet their quality of results (QoR) goals. High-level synthesis
automatically builds the design "schedule" that includes creation of the
datapath and finite state machine (FSM) to meet a given set of user-directed
and/or hardware design constraints. When these constraints cannot be met,
Cynthesizer gives the user specific direction for further input, reducing
the design time needed.
Cycle Accurate simulation technology improves verification performance.
Using Cynthesizer's automated methodology management software, designers can
quickly execute behavioral simulations, high-level synthesis and utilize
Cynthesizer Cycle Accurate simulation to accelerate the output RTL
implementations. With speeds up to 20x over traditional register transfer
level (RTL) simulation, designers have a high-performance, cost-effective
and integrated solution to meet their verification challenges.
Cynthesizer also includes updates to its CynWare IP interface library.
Designers can use its extensive pre-verified library and new faster memory
interface support for greater flexibility, better performance and lower
power.
Additional features and optimizations further reduce circuit power
utilization and improve tool runtime and capacity.
Forte will demonstrate Cynthesizer, Cynthesizer Ultra, and its CellMath
family of products in Booth #750 at the 47th Design Automation Conference
(DAC) June 14-16 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif.
To schedule a private demonstration of Cynthesizer, contact:
sales@ForteDS.com.
For information about DAC, visit: www.dac.com.
Cynthesizer and Cynthesizer Ultra are shipping now. Cynthesizer comes
standard with Forte's transaction level modeling (TLM) synthesis capability,
complete memory generation subsystem, fixed-point support and streaming
interface IP. Cynthesizer Ultra adds the CellMath datapath optimizer and
floating-point support. U.S. pricing starts at $275,000. Cynthesizer's
Partitioning and Interface Generator features start at $40,000 (U.S.) as
an add-on to Cynthesizer.
Forte Design Systems is a leading provider of software products that
enable design at a higher level of abstraction and improve design
results. Its innovative synthesis technologies and intellectual property
offerings allow design teams creating complex electronic chips and
systems to reduce their overall design and verification time. More than
half of the top 20 worldwide semiconductor companies use Forte's
products in production today for ASIC, SoC and FPGA design. Forte is
headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with additional offices in England,
Japan, Korea, and the United States. For more information, visit
www.ForteDS.com.
Forte acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other
organizations for their respective products and services.
For more information, contact:
Brett Cline, Forte Design Systems
(978) 206-1855
brett@ForteDS.com
Nanette Collins, Public Relations for Forte Design Systems
(617) 437-1822
nanette@nvc.com
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