Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 8 October 2001
Adelante helps Mentor
address DSP-based SoCs
Mentor Graphics and Adelante Technologies have formed a partnership that will enable Mentor Graphics to broaden the scope of its Platform Express SoC design kit to include embedded DSP
The collaboration will enable developers in the high-volume consumer electronics industry - particularly in the areas of multimedia, and next generation wireless - to rapidly create, configure and verify platform-based system-on-chip designs. Systems integration can cause a major bottleneck in today's SoC designs.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 October 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The SoC-DSP Platform Express addresses this issue by offering an open development platform that enables multicore SoC design and verification of hardware and software.
This is a major step forward in increasing the speed of development for SoC-based designs.
Adelante Technologies and Mentor Graphics aim to make the first product available during the first half of 2002.
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Launched in August 2001, Platform Express is the semiconductor design industry's first environment for rapidly creating, configuring and verifying platform-based SoC designs.
The agreement with Adelante Technologies follows similar partnerships with Oki and Altera, which enable Mentor Graphics to provide Platform Express design kits for popular SoC platforms.
Platform Express enables design teams to build and configure a platform core and its corresponding peripherals and software in a virtual prototype.
Platform Express simultaneously generates a custom verification environment to verify interfaces in the portion of the design surrounding the embedded processor and its attached peripherals.
By automating design creation and verification steps the solution shaves months off product development cycles and enables designers to focus on product differentiators.
Using Platform Express, designers can browse through a library of available processors, memories and peripherals and drag-and-drop selected items into a graphical editor.
Platform Express provides a graphical user interface that enables users to create systems as block diagrams.
It creates automatically the necessary connections between components, depending on a selection of standard buses, including amba and VCI.
In addition, it includes a memory map display that automatically displays address space usage.
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