Singapore technology centre adopts DK1

The NEC Electronics Singapore technology centre has licensed Celoxica's DK1 design suite.

The NEC Electronics Singapore technology centre has licensed Celoxica's DK1 design suite.

The project team at NEC Electronics Singapore's technology centre will use DK1 to design and prove hardware implementations of its C-based algorithms for multimedia applications on FPGAs, before taking their design to an ASIC.

"We are ambitious about our current project.

It requires us to take our algorithms, developed in C programming language and implement them on an ASIC for mass production", said Shigeru Kawada, General Manager, NEC Electronics Singapore's technology centre.

"The DK1 suite enables us to work at a high level, quickly optimise C code for hardware implementation, prototype using FPGAs and will ultimately provide the HDL output for our ASIC design".

"NEC Electronics Singapore's technology centre is taking an innovative approach using DK1 to leverage their software skills straight into ASIC design", said Suresh Potluri, business director, Celoxica.

He continued, "Because the Handel-C programming language featured in DK1 is based in ANSI C, it provides a less complex path for accelerating algorithmic design in hardware than is currently found in traditional HDL flows.

DK1 encourages the use of software development style iterative refinement of designs through its advanced synthesis and optimisation coupled with rapid compilation to FPGA netlists".

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