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News Release from: Celoxica
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 June 2001
Tokyo University to use Celoxica DK1 for
postgrads
Tokyo University is to use Celoxica's DK1 design suite and development boards for a postgraduate course in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Tokyo University is to use Celoxica's DK1 design suite and development boards for a postgraduate course in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Tokyo University is evaluating Celoxica's DK1 design suite and its rapid prototyping development platforms in its "Hardware synthesis from programming languages" course
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 6 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Celoxica has announced the DK1 design suite, software that enables a fundamentally new approach to the design of electronic hardware.
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Celoxica DK1 Eval is a free evaluation version of the Celoxica DK1 design suite that is restricted to compilations for simulation only, with no EDIF or VHDL output capability.
Prof Masahiro Fujita of Tokyo University said, "By using the DK1 design suite we can make our teaching process more effective.
In the teaching of LSI design and design support technology, it normally takes a long time to explain HDLs (hardware development languages) before students can actually start designing hardware.
Students were spending most of the time in these five weeks learning HDL, but with Handel-C, which is easy to learn, students can start programming from the first week of the course".
Colin Mason, General Manager and Representative Director of Japan Celoxica K.K.
said, "It is a great honour that Tokyo University is using Celoxica's technology.
Celoxica is supporting training of a new generation of engineers through its University Programme and we are pleased to be making a positive contribution in Japan.
Describing complex functionality in silicon is becoming harder and more expensive as chip circuits grow smaller in size and larger in number.
Today's tools struggle to express complex applications in hardware because they were developed to describe circuits rather than functions".
"Our design methodology overcomes low-level design details with a software development approach that enables functions to be expressed as C programming code and then automatically converted into hardware.
This enables software engineers to accelerate system functions in hardware and work more closely to support hardware design teams to improve overall system performance with a solution that brings a greater level of creative expression to hardware design.
Celoxica is very pleased to be contributing to the future of electronics engineering in Japan", said Mason.
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