San Jose, Calif. – January 23, 2006 - Forte Design Systems today
announced that Toshiba Corporation has completed an advanced multimedia
H.264 design using Forte's Cynthesizer SystemC behavioral synthesis
product. In addition, Toshiba has selected Cynthesizer as a key product in
its R-Cube(tm) C-based methodology, developed to significantly reduce
time-to-market for Toshiba's multimedia SoC.
Toshiba designed its H.264 image processing hardware using ANSI-C++ and
SystemC. The high-level design code was then processed by Forte's
Cynthesizer, which quickly generated multiple RTL implementations. Each
implementation was specifically targeted for Toshiba's SoC design process,
resulting in reduced downstream problems with logic synthesis and layout.
By designing at a higher level of abstraction and using Cynthesizer to
automate the RTL implementation, Toshiba was able to reduce its overall
design time by significantly reducing time-to-RTL, improving verification
performance, and removing downstream synthesis and backend issues while
maintaining high quality of results.
Forte's position as the industry-leading behavioral synthesis provider,
along with their repeated production design successes at Toshiba and other
major semiconductor and systems vendors, were key factors in Toshiba's
decision to select Cynthesizer for the
R-Cube design methodology. This new
endorsement augments Forte's selection as a key supplier for Toshiba's
Media embedded Processor (MeP) SoC design platform flow in 2006.
"Reducing the time from algorithms to specific SoC implementations is a
critical factor for Toshiba's MeP SoC platform," said Tohru Furuyama,
Ph.D., general manager, SoC research & development center, Semiconductor
Company, Toshiba Corporation. "Cynthesizer's ability to rapidly produce
multiple high-quality RTL implementations from a single C++ source makes it
a critical factor in our new R-Cube high-level design flow. Our success
with Cynthesizer in the H.264 design clearly demonstrates that a C-based
design flow is not only viable but fundamental as we move to 90nm and
beyond."
"We're extremely proud of the recent success at Toshiba on such a
complex design," said Brett Cline, vice president of Forte's customer
operations and services group. "Cynthesizer is providing a tremendous
competitive edge to design teams at Toshiba by allowing them to accomplish
more in less time, while improving their quality of results."
Forte's Cynthesizer significantly reduces the
time needed to create complex chips and systems by automatically generating
high-quality RTL designs from high-level algorithms. Cynthesizer is
silicon-proven with uncompromising quality of results that often exceed
hand-coded RTL. It is the only behavioral synthesis product that offers
designers a complete environment including synthesis, verification, and
co-simulation. Cynthesizer is currently in production at 15 of the world's
leading semiconductor and systems companies worldwide.
Forte Design Systems is a leading provider of
software products that enable design at a higher level of abstraction.
Forte's innovative
behavioral synthesis technology allows design teams
creating complex electronic systems from algorithmic designs using ASICs,
FPGAs, and SoCs to significantly reduce their overall design and
verification time. Forte is headquartered at 100 Century Center Court, San
Jose, CA 95112. For more information, visit
http://www.ForteDS.com.
R-Cube is a trademark of Toshiba Corporation. More
information on Toshiba's R-Cube methodology can be found at
http://www.semicon.toshiba.co.jp/eng/r_cube/.
Cynthesizer is a trademark of Forte Design Systems.
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