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Toshiba Corporation has chosen Forte's Cynthesizer SystemC behavioural synthesis product for use in its SystemC design flow.
The companies have entered a multi-year agreement to deploy Cynthesizer to shorten the development cycle of Toshiba's next generation system level ICs for the consumer, networking and computer markets.
Cynthesizer's significant productivity benefits, superior quality of results (QoR), and SystemC language support were key factors in Toshiba's decision.
'As a leading supplier of complex system level ICs, we are constantly working to improve the design process to get new products developed and into volume production faster', said Seiichi Nishio, Senior Manager Methodology at Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor Company.
'After extensive evaluations, we determined that by using Cynthesizer, we can substantially reduce the time to design and implement next generation products so that we meet customer needs while taking advantage of the increasing performance and complexity that our advanced technologies provide'.
'Furthermore, Forte was the best vendor that shared our vision of a next-generation design flow and had the products to support it'.
'We are very pleased to work with such a leader in the electronics market', said Jacob Jacobsson, Forte's President and CEO.
'Toshiba's commitment signals an undeniable move towards design at a higher level of abstraction, with Cynthesizer clearly emerging as the behavioural synthesis tool of choice'.
Forte's Cynthesizer SystemC behavioural synthesis product allows design teams to achieve the quality of results necessary for high-volume complex electronic devices in a fraction of time required by a traditional RTL methodology.
By moving to a higher level of abstraction and using Cynthesizer, design teams can significantly reduce the time needed to create and implement multi-million-gate SoCs and ASICs by automatically synthesising high quality RTL code.
In addition, high-level design models written for Cynthesizer typically require 25-50x less code when compared to handwritten RTL to specify the design intent.
This reduction in code size yields significant productivity improvements in verification and debugging.
Cynthesizer is the only behavioural synthesis product available today that allows all candidate RTL implementations to be quickly and automatically synthesised and verified using the testbench originally developed for the behavioural model.
This unique capability allows verification to start earlier and reduces the overall effort through reuse of the verification environment.
And by supporting SystemC, Cynthesizer meets the market demands for a standard language ensuring tool interoperability.
SystemC, the de facto standard for ESL design, is an open source C++ class library that adds necessary hardware capabilities to C and C++ including bit accuracy, concurrency, and timing.
SystemC is the only high-level design language that supports all of C and C++ without requiring a proprietary compiler or other proprietary tools.
Using a C++ class library allows SystemC hardware abstractions to be easily introduced to any C or C++ design.
Over 25,000 people have downloaded SystemC which is supported by over 40 EDA products.
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