SANTA
CLARA, CALIF. -- October 22, 2008 -- As a result of more than three
years of collaboration, Calypto(tm) Design Systems Inc. and Forte Design
Systems have created an advanced SystemC design flow encompassing
verification and implementation that provides consumer and multimedia
electronics companies with improved productivity and design quality.
The
seamless integration of Calypto's SLEC(tm) System-HLS formal verification
software and Forte's Cynthesizer(tm) SystemC synthesis offers a complete
SystemC to register transfer level (RTL) design flow. This advanced
system-level solution has been proven by one of Japan's largest
integrated device manufacturers (IDM) to support the complexity and
capacity requirements of multi-million gate system-on-chip (SoC)
designs.
Both products have been extensively tuned on
numerous SystemC designs to satisfy sophisticated user requirements,
such as custom interface specifications, external memory interfaces and
fixed point datatypes. The advanced SystemC design flow enables users
to specify and verify SoC functionality, communication and timing at the
system level. SLEC verifies the equivalence of two SystemC models
during system-level model refinement and comprehensively verifies the
RTL code generated from Cynthesizer.
"Japanese
SOC design teams continue to break new ground in deploying SystemC
design methods," notes Tom Sandoval, Calypto's chief executive officer
(CEO). "The advanced SystemC design flow linking Calypto and Forte
products is enabling industry leading design productivity in the
development of complex consumer and multimedia SOCs."
"High-level
synthesis continues to provide a significant time-to-market advantage
for design teams around the world," says Sean Dart, Forte's president
and CEO. "Coupled with sequential logic equivalence
checking, designers can further improve their productivity and
confidence using industry standard SystemC in their ESL design flow."
Calypto, the leader in sequential analysis technology, will demonstrate
this advanced SystemC solution at the Forte User Group Meeting in Shin
Yokohama, Japan, Friday, October 31. For details, visit: www.ForteDS.com/japan/
SLEC(tm) System-HLS verifies the RTL generated from high-level
synthesis (HLS) tools and is tightly integrated into HLS design flows by
automating functional verification setup and supporting HLS language
extensions. SLEC System-HLS verifies SystemC and RTL designs without
the need for writing testbenches or running simulation. SLEC System-HLS
is part of Calypto's proven SLEC product family that also includes SLEC
System, SLEC RTL and SLEC CG.
Forte's Cynthesizer
delivers production quality RTL in one tenth of the time of hand coded
RTL designs, improves results, and eliminates downstream timing closure
problems. Cynthesizer uses a high-level SystemC description to give
designers the ability to build designs with custom interfaces and
challenging architectural requirements not possibly with other C-based
products. Cynthesizer can automatically retarget designs to new speeds
and process technologies and supports a level of reuse that is
impossible in RTL. Cynthesizer is the practical, silicon-proven,
high-level synthesis solution.
Founded in 2002, Calypto
Design Systems, Inc. empowers designers to create high-quality,
low-power electronic systems by providing best-in-class power
optimization and functional verification software, based on its patented
sequential analysis technology. Calypto, whose customers include
Fortune 500 companies worldwide, is a member of the Cadence Connections
program, the IEEE-SA, Synopsys SystemVerilog Catalyst Program, the
Mentor Graphics OpenDoor program, Si2 and is an active participant in
the Power Forward Initiative. Calypto has offices in Europe, India,
Japan and North America. Corporate Headquarters is located at: 2933
Bunker Hill Lane, Suite 202, Santa Clara, Calif. 95054. Telephone:
(408)850-2300. More information can be found at: www.calypto.com.
Forte Design Systems is a
leading provider of software products that enable design at a
higher-level of abstraction. Forte's innovative, high-level synthesis
technology allows design teams creating complex electronic systems to
significantly reduce their overall design and verification time. More
than 25 of the world's largest systems and semiconductor companies have
deployed Cynthesizer today for their next generation products. Forte is
headquartered at 100 Century Center Court, San Jose, Calif., 95112.
For more information, visit
www.ForteDS.com.
Calypto, PowerPro, SLEC and Enabling ESL are trademarks of Calypto Design Systems Inc.
Cynthesizer is a trademark of Forte Design Systems. Other products and
company names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
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