Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Synopsys | Subject: OpenMast
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 29 June 2004
Open-source language aids mixed-technology design
OpenMast is a novel open source, mixed-technology language for electromechanical design and analysis
Synopsys is delivering OpenMast in response to customer demand to establish an open, standardised version of the popular Mast language. OpenMast will address a key need of the automotive and aerospace design community by fostering open model exchange and interoperability of existing and future Mast-based models.
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"To facilitate electrical analysis, open model exchange between GM and its suppliers has long been a goal".
"To support this effort, there is a tremendous need for modelling standards and the OpenMast is a step in the right direction", said David Smith, Electrical Analysis Manager at General Motors.
"GM was an early user and contributor to Mast and we have been incorporating it into our design flow for more than ten years".
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"OpenMast formalises the language and should foster an open system-level modelling and verification environment that incorporates one of the most widely used mixed-technology modelling languages in our industry".
In the automotive and aerospace industry, the rising complexity of software-controlled electromechanical systems is driving the need for new verification methodologies using languages such as VHDL-AMS, Verilog-AMS, SystemVerilog and SystemC.
Model libraries are the foundation and key to adoption of any design-verification methodology.
OpenMast can help mature and accelerate adoption of emerging design-verification methodologies by supporting the interoperability of the more than one hundred thousand existing Mast models in automotive and aerospace.
"The opportunity now exists for transportation markets to converge on a standard language", said Rich Goldman, Vice President, Strategic Market Development at Synopsys.
"OpenMast is a direct response to our customer requests for an open design environment and model exchange format to address the key verification challenges in the automotive and aerospace electromechanical design community".
"OpenMast will increase innovation and, most importantly, help customers with interoperable flows supported by tools from multiple vendors".
OpenMast is available free of charge at www.openmast.org.
Information regarding OpenMast can be downloaded from the website including access to an OpenMast licence, language reference manual (LRM), a designer's guide, reference parser and a portability guide.
By opening Mast to the public, Synopsys is enlisting the expertise of a community of users and developers to review and enhance the language.
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