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ESL Design News
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Ricoh Deploys CoWare ESL 2.0 Solutions for Architecture Optimization and Pre-Silicon Software Development (Monday Jan. 19, 2009)
CoWare announced today that Ricoh is deploying CoWare ESL 2.0 solutions in production for system-on-chip (SoC) platform architecture design and pre-silicon software development. In their first project, a next generation wireless communications SoC for office automation applications, Ricoh achieved a 90% savings in operating system porting and boot loader software development time with CoWare virtual hardware platforms compared to previous experience with traditional design methods and FPGA prototyping.
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OSCI Debuts Standard for SystemC Analog Mixed-Signal Extensions (Wednesday Dec. 03, 2008)
The AMS draft 1 standard proposes the first definitions for the design and modeling of embedded analog/mixed-signal systems at higher levels of abstraction, such as those found in telecommunication, automotive and imaging sensor applications.
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JEDA Launches the First Commercial TLM2.0 Compliance Checker (Wednesday Nov. 26, 2008)
The TLM-2.0 Compliance Checker is part of the JEDA TLM-2.0 Validation Suite. The product targets high-level OSCI TLM-2.0 model developers and OSCI TLM-2.0 compliant Virtual Platform users.
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Carbon Design Systems Unleashes Latest Version of SoC Designer (Monday Nov. 03, 2008)
Carbon assumed development, support and sales of SoC Designer from ARM® in July, and now offers a complete system validation solution with cycle-accurate system modeling, cycle-optimized platform creation, execution and analysis, and cycle-accurate model kits for ARM intellectual property (IP).
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Calypto, Forte Collaboration Results in Advanced SystemC Design Flow (Thursday Oct. 23, 2008)
The seamless integration of Calypto's SLEC(TM) System-HLS formal verification software and Forte's Cynthesizer(TM) SystemC synthesis offers a complete SystemC to register transfer level (RTL) design flow
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CoWare and MontaVista Deliver Joint Solution to Accelerate Software Development for Linux-based Devices (Thursday Oct. 02, 2008)
Solution Enables Companies to Accelerate Linux Education, Linux Support Package Development and Linux-based Device Development, Integration and Test Using CoWare Virtual Platforms
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DSPACE, VaST Collaborate on Simulating Automotive Software on Virtual Hardware Platforms (Tuesday Sep. 23, 2008)
The goal of the collaboration is to closely couple dSPACE's automotive software development tools TargetLink and SystemDesk with VaST's virtualization tools COMET® and METeor®.
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Agilent Technologies' New Electronic System-Level EDA Platform Helps Algorithm Developers, System Architects Cut Design Time in Half (Wednesday Sep. 17, 2008)
The new platform cuts physical layer (PHY) design time in half for high-performance communications algorithms and system architectures, for both wireless and aerospace/defense applications.
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VaST Integrates CoMET and METeor into Eclipse 3.3 Framework (Tuesday Sep. 09, 2008)
VaST today announced the availability of the latest versions of its virtual system prototyping tools, CoMET® and METeor™ version 6.1 fully integrated into the Eclipse 3.3 (Europa) Framework.
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Imperas Announces Verification, Licensing, Distribution Agreement With MIPS Technologies (Tuesday Aug. 19, 2008)
Imperas models of MIPS® processor cores will be verified by MIPS Technologies under the MIPS-Verified™ program.
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CoWare Delivers Ultra High-Speed, MIPS-Verified Instruction Set Simulators for MIPS32 Cores (Monday Aug. 18, 2008)
Agreement with MIPS Technologies Enables Model Availability to Speed Development of Robust, Optimized MIPS-Based Products
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Cadence Expands System-Level Offerings With Introduction of C-to-Silicon Compiler (Monday Jul. 14, 2008)
Cadence today introduced Cadence® C-to-Silicon Compiler, a high-level synthesis product that improves designer productivity up to 10 times in creating and re-using system-on-chip IP
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PGC Adopts S2C's FPGA-based ESL Tools to Streamline Front-End Design Service Flow (Wednesday Jul. 02, 2008)
Complementing proven strengths in back-end design, integrated chip (IC) fabrication, and production logistics, PGC will now employ S2C’s Virtex-5 TAI Logic Module to enact system-on-chip (SoC) design creation, verification, and customer sign-off capabilities on FPGA prototype.
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CoWare Delivers Support for ARM Cortex-based Applications (Monday Jun. 30, 2008)
Major Semiconductor and Mobile Phone Companies Rely on CoWare's ESL 2.0 Solutions for Optimizing ARM Cortex-based Designs
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Virtutech Announces Breakthrough Hybrid Simulation Capability Allowing Mixed Levels of Model Abstraction (Monday Jun. 16, 2008)
Supports Advanced Freescale QorIQ™ P4080 Multicore Processor; Hybrid Simulation Infrastructure Leverages Proven Simics® Simulator
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Freescale Delivers Virtual Platforms to Continental Using CoWare ESL 2.0 Solutions (Tuesday Jun. 03, 2008)
Standards-based Solutions for Pre-silicon Software Development Accelerate Collaborative Development of the Industry’s First Triple-Core Automotive MCU
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Duolog Technologies Provides OCP-IP Members Powerful OCP Transaction Analysis Tool (Tuesday May. 27, 2008)
Duolog Technologies and OCP-IP announce that Duolog will provide its OCP-Conductor Professional transaction analysis tool free of charge to members of OCP-IP.
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Sonics Bundles JEDA OCP Checker Into SonicsStudio (Tuesday May. 27, 2008)
The newly released SonicsStudio 4.8, Sonics’ SoC development tool, includes the JEDA OCPchecker, a SystemC based OCP compliance checker to pinpoints protocol violations under virtual platform simulation environments.
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CoFluent Design Announces World's First Eclipse-Based Graphical ESL Modeling and Simulation Framework (Monday May. 26, 2008)
CoFluent Studio Leverages Model-Driven Development and Eclipse Technologies to Deliver State-of-the-Art Graphical Modeling Environment and Superior Interoperability
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EVE to Showcase Transaction-Level Modeling Capabilities During DAC (Tuesday May. 20, 2008)
EVE is adding two new transactors to its extensive library of the most common standard protocols, an AXI Master/Slave transactor and a PCIe Gen 2.0 16x transactor. Both can be connected easily to the design, reducing the setup time for the testbench by eliminating the need for hardware speed bridges or synthesizable testbenches.
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Synopsys Adds 30 New Titles to DesignWare System-Level Library (Thursday May. 15, 2008)
The new members of the Library include high-performance transaction-level models (TLMs) for PowerPC®, MIPS, and DesignWare IP. DesignWare System-Level Library models significantly reduce the time to create virtual platforms and are written in SystemC to work in any IEEE 1666 (SystemC)-compliant simulation environment.
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CoWare and Agility Team to Accelerate the Simulation of Complex DSP Algorithms (Monday May. 12, 2008)
CoWare is offering its customers integration support for accelerated C models generated by Agility’s RMS and MCS products into the entire range of CoWare’s ESL 2.0 solutions.
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ChipVision Delivers Two Breakthrough ESL Power-Optimization Design Tools for Meeting Critical Power Budgets (Tuesday Apr. 22, 2008)
The new tools are ideal for companies developing mobile communications, networking, consumer or automotive applications that need extended battery life or reduced cooling requirements.
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CoWare Introduces First Ever Checkpoint / Restart Capability for Native SystemC Virtual Platforms (Monday Apr. 14, 2008)
CoWare announced today the first ever checkpoint/restart capability for native SystemC Virtual Platforms.
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NXP and CoWare Establish Strategic Relationship for the Company Wide Deployment of ESL Technologies (Monday Apr. 07, 2008)
The strategic, multi-year relationship covers a broad spectrum of ESL technologies from CoWare as well as a major services agreement to support the rapid deployment of these technologies across NXP's business units.
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CoWare and Sonics Release ESL 2.0 Upgrade of Joint Flow (Wednesday Mar. 26, 2008)
Sonics SMART Interconnect Integration with CoWare ESL 2.0 Solution Provides Faster Time-to-Market for Production Designs
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VaST and NEC Electronics America Develop Models of V850-Based Microcontrollers for Leading Automotive Customers (Monday Mar. 17, 2008)
VaST Systems and NEC Electronics America today announced the availability and development of virtual models of NEC Electronics’ 32-bit V850™-based microcontroller units (MCUs).
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Axilica Offers tool for behavioral synthesis of hardware designs from UML (Monday Mar. 10, 2008)
FalconML is a powerful new tool developed by Axilica to deliver behavioural synthesis of FPGA or ASIC-directed hardware designs from UML.
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CoWare Announces System-Level Design Solutions for Android-based Products (Wednesday Feb. 27, 2008)
CoWare announced today its solution for the rapid design and development of chipsets, handsets and software applications built to support the Android™ Mobile Platform.
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Aldec Releases Riviera-PRO(TM) 2008.02 with VHDL 2007, SystemC 2.2 and SystemVerilog (DPI) (Monday Feb. 25, 2008)
Riviera-PRO offers mixed language verification support for VHDL, Verilog®, SystemVerilog and SystemC for behavioral, structural and timing simulation of multi-million gate ASIC and FPGA designs.