News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 2 June 2004

New tool speeds Siemens code to RTL

Siemens ICN has reduced C source to RTL implementation time by 50% on a strategic project using the new Catapult C synthesis tool.

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Siemens Information and Communications Networks (ICN) has reduced C source to register transfer level (RTL) implementation time by 50% on a strategic project using the new Mentor Graphics Catapult C synthesis tool. As a result, Siemens ICN has adopted the tool, which will be used by the Munich-based design team to develop an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) for a voice over IP (VoIP) application. "We were impressed by the results.

The fact that we could synthesise our untimed, system-level C/C++ source code with minimal modification played an important role in the success of this project".

"It provided a precise path from our system-level models all the way to RTL, which allowed us to meet our required design goals in significantly less time", said Rudolf Krumenacker, Vice President, System-on-Chip Design, Siemens ICN.

"Mentor Graphics field and product teams provided us with excellent support, enabling us to apply - in only a few days - this new technology to our highly important project".

Using the Mentor Catapult C synthesis tool, Siemens' design team discovered that it could automatically generate correct RTL for a complex VoIP algorithm in half the time required with conventional manual methods.

The synthesised RTL code readily met placement and routing timing, while satisfying the project's latency requirements.

"We worked closely with Siemens to help ensure that the new methodology and process they were undertaking with the Catapult C synthesis tool would prove successful for their critical and complex device", said Simon Bloch, General Manager, Design Creation and Synthesis Division, Mentor Graphics.

"They played a strategic role in providing solid feedback that we could incorporate into the product in order to better address their design needs".

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