Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: CoWare | Subject: ConvergenSC 2004.2
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 16 November 2004
Flow runs from design to implementation
CoWare and Forte Design Systems have developed the first integrated SystemC-based solution for electronic system-level (ESL) design to implementation
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The tight integration of CoWare's SystemC-based ConvergenSC system-on-chip (SoC) design tools and Forte's Cynthesizer SystemC behavioural 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 synthesise 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 behavioural synthesis to deliver this solution".
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"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 realise 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 rework 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 behavioural 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 multithread SystemC debugging and SystemC/HDL cosimulation with ConvergenSC.
The combined solution provides a fast path from SystemC to high quality, retargetable RTL.
ConvergenSC 2004.2 is available immediately from CoWare.
Cynthesizer 2.3.4 is available immediately from Forte.
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