ANAHEIM, CALIF. -- June 15, 2010 --
Forte Design Systems,
a leading provider of High-Level Synthesis software, today announced that TSMC
has validated its Cynthesizer™ SystemC high-level synthesis product for Reference
Flow 11.0 inclusion. Forte is demonstrating Cynthesizer in Booth #750 at the 47th Design
Automation Conference (DAC) through Wednesday, June 16, at the Anaheim
Convention Center here.
"TSMC and Forte have been working together to meet the unique challenges
associated with ESL design," remarks Tom Quan, TSMC's deputy director of Design
Service Marketing. "Forte provides the much-needed high-level synthesis tools for
Reference Flow 11.0, allowing our joint customers to quickly produce high-quality,
TSMC-compliant hardware designs from a high-level SystemC description."
Release 11.0 is the first generation of TSMC Reference Flow featuring electronic
system level (ESL) design. Forte's Cynthesizer v4.0 was included in the new flow to
support SystemC high level synthesis.
Designers create abstracted models of their hardware using a high-level SystemC
description. Cynthesizer processes the SystemC model, automatically creating the
datapath and finite state machine. Designers can easily generate a number of candidate
register transfer level (RTL) implementations by varying tool directives to specify
latency, performance or area constraints.
Cynthesizer's advanced algorithms and patented datapath optimization engine
create high-quality building blocks tuned to the given TSMC library to minimize area and
perform detailed timing analysis, eliminating timing closure problems inherent in typical
RTL design processes. The design flow introduction based on Cynthesizer will be
available on TSMC-Online.
"Joining TSMC's Reference Flow marks a major milestone for Cynthesizer and
for SystemC-based design," concludes Sean Dart, Forte's president and chief executive
officer (CEO). "With a documented flow and methodology from SystemC to silicon, our
mutual customers can be confident they will receive a high-quality implementation while
addressing the complex issues of deep sub-micron design."
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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