Celoxica for design flow is Cogent thinking

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Dec 3, 2001

Military communications systems specialist, Cogent Defence Systems has signed a three-year deal to use Celoxica's DK1 design suite.

Military communications systems specialist, Cogent Defence Systems has signed a three-year deal to use Celoxica's DK1 design suite.

Cogent signed the agreement following a successful long-term evaluation of DK1 against its existing design tools, under Celoxica's beta partner programme.

Following successful completion of the evaluation project, Cogent is now using DK1 on live designs including elements of the satellite to ground link for the Bowman communications system.

"Our evaluation of DK1 clearly demonstrated that the flow increases our engineering throughput, and allows us to make better use of our scarce hardware engineering resources", said Andy Davey, senior engineer at Cogent Defence Systems, "Using Celoxica's Handel-C to hardware flow, our software engineers can take a software solution through to hardware allowing the hardware designer to focus on system integration and optimisation".

Dennis Nye senior vice president, worldwide sales and marketing, Celoxica Limited, added: "DK1 is ideal for Cogent as it allows their software designers to implement complex, processor intensive algorithms in hardware, giving them access to the acceleration that a hardware implementation brings, without in-depth knowledge of the hardware platform".