SAN JOSE, Calif., November 15, 2004 -- CoWare®
Inc., the leading supplier of system-level electronic design automation
(EDA) software and services, and Forte Design Systems, the market leader in
behavioral synthesis, announced the first integrated SystemC-based solution
for electronic system-level (ESL) design to implementation. The tight
integration of CoWare's SystemC-based ConvergenSC™ system-on-chip (SoC)
design tools and Forte's Cynthesizer™ SystemC behavioral synthesis product
unites system architecture, simulation, and synthesis in a first-of-its
kind flow. Users can explore and validate a design's system architecture in
CoWare's ConvergenSC, then synthesize to RTL using Forte's Cynthesizer, and
verify the RTL in a system context with the same SystemC model.
"Integrating behavioral synthesis into our SystemC
flow accelerates adoption by automating the path to implementation," said
Mark Milligan, vice president of marketing, CoWare. "By joining forces with
Forte, ConvergenSC and Cynthesizer will help ease the adoption of ESL
methodologies for our customers. We are proud to partner with the leader in
behavioral synthesis to deliver this solution."
"With the integration of ConvergenSC and Cynthesizer, we are providing
our customers with a new way of creating their SystemC designs and a faster
way of verifying them," said Brett Cline, vice president of marketing at
Forte. "By partnering with the industry leader in system-level design, our
customers have access to a more complete SystemC design environment to ease
adoption and allow them to realize the benefits of ESL design faster."
System designers developing
platforms and SoC architectures in SystemC need an automated path to
implementation to help them avoid manual re-work and to prevent divergence
between their SystemC model and the optimal RTL implementation. Now,
ConvergenSC users can automatically generate RTL for targeted subsystem
blocks using Cynthesizer, and then validate candidate RTL implementations
in the system with embedded software.
Hardware designers adopting SystemC
behavioral synthesis need simulation to functionally verify their design
before and after synthesis. With this integration, Cynthesizer users now
have access to high-performance commercial simulation with powerful
multi-thread SystemC debugging and SystemC/HDL co-simulation with ConvergenSC. The combined solution provides a fast path from SystemC to
high quality, re-targetable RTL.
ConvergenSC 2004.2 is
available immediately from CoWare. For more information, contact your local
sales office or visit
www.coware.com.
Cynthesizer 2.3.4 is available
immediately from Forte. For more information, contact your local sales
office or visit www.ForteDS.com.
CoWare ConvergenSC speeds the concurrent design of SoCs with embedded
software. The ConvergenSC product family combines hardware/software
partitioning and platform assembly together with simulation, debug and
analysis capabilities. Together with the ConvergenSC Model Library, the
largest IP model library for SystemC, customers can rapidly create and
validate SoC designs at the transaction level in SystemC. For pricing
information, contact your local sales office.
Forte's Cynthesizer significantly reduces the
time needed to create complex chips and systems by automatically generating
high-quality RTL designs from high-level algorithms. Cynthesizer is
silicon-proven with uncompromising quality of results that often exceed
hand coded RTL. It is the only behavioral synthesis product that offers
designers a complete environment including synthesis, verification, and
co-simulation. Cynthesizer has been used on over 60 designs and is in
production use in many of the largest systems and semiconductor companies
worldwide.
CoWare is the leading supplier of system-level
electronic design automation (EDA) software tools and services. CoWare
offers a comprehensive set of electronic system-level (ESL) tools that
enable SoC developers to "differentiate by design" through the creation of
system-IP including embedded processors, on-chip buses, and DSP algorithms;
the architecture of optimized SoC platforms; and hardware/software
co-design. The company's solutions are based on open industry standards
including SystemC. CoWare's customers are major systems, semiconductor, and
IP companies in the market where consumer electronics, computing, and
communications converge. CoWare's corporate investors include ARM Ltd. [(LSE:ARM);
(Nasdaq: ARMHY)], Cadence Design Systems (NYSE:CDN), ST Microelectronics (NYSE:STM),
and Sony Corporation (NYSE:SNE). CoWare is headquartered in San Jose,
Calif., and has offices around the world. For more information about CoWare
and its products and services, visit
www.coware.com.
Forte Design Systems is a leading provider of software
products that enable design at a higher level of abstraction. Forte's
innovative Cynthesizer
behavioral synthesis product allows design teams
creating complex electronic systems from algorithmic designs using ASICs,
SoCs, and FPGAs to significantly reduce their overall design and
verification time. Forte is headquartered at 100 Century Center Court, San
Jose, CA 95112. For more information, visit
www.ForteDS.com.
ConvergenSC and LISATek are trademarks of CoWare, Inc. CoWare is a
registered trademark of CoWare, Inc. in the United States. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Cynthesizer is a
trademark of Forte Design Systems.
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