Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: CoFluent Design | Subject: CoFluent Studio
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 May 2007
Design software promises architectural freedom
The latest version of CoFluent Studio, set to be previewed at DAC, features a novel architecture exploration facility
CoFluent Design will preview version 2.1 of its flagship product CoFluent Studio at the 44th Design Automation Conference in San Diego, California, from 4th to 8th June 2007. CoFluent Studio is used to develop the optimum system architecture at the beginning of the ESL flow. The system architecture defines performance, functionality, power consumption, cost and other elements at a stage where 80% of the design's value is added, determining the final product market match and competitiveness.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 May 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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CoFluent Studio enables decision making at the earliest stage of a project thanks to its higher level of abstraction that considerably simplifies and speeds architectural modification, while offering very high speed simulation.
Architectural development using CoFluent Studio is executed at the 'message passing' level of abstraction following a Y design flow that keeps separate views of the application and the platform, to later merge them through a unique mapping operation.
It automatically generates transactional level modelling (TLM) SystemC models which can be used as test benches to validate cycle-accurate implementation micro-architectures.
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CoFluent Studio v2.0 already gave the possibility to do early, agile and rapid system macro-architecture exploration and performance analysis by modelling the behaviour of the application running on generic platform performance models.
This requires considerable lower efforts and costs compared with other ESL tools co-simulating hardware models with the real software code.
'From simple graphics and C code input, CoFluent users can get dynamic profiles of performance indices like power consumption, memory use, processor and bus loads without writing SystemC models and with no hardware intellectual property (IP) block, instruction set simulator (ISS) or embedded software code being needed', says Jean-Paul Calvez, Chief Technical Officer of CoFluent Design.
Now, with the new architecture exploration facility integrated into the coming-up v2.1 release, users have the possibility to select a variation range for a design parameter of their choice, run simulation batches for each value of the parameter, and obtain analysis results displayed in the same chart.
In one single view, users can get a visual comparison of the same system under different architecting scenarios.
The impact of a parameter change in a design can also be very easily analysed and understood so the optimal value can be chosen.
In the end, CoFluent enables its customers to develop optimised architectures unconstrained by downstream implementation considerations, upstream of micro-architecture decisions.
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