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News Release from: CoFluent Design | Subject: CoFluent Studio
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 02 March 2006
Toolset makes modelling more flexible
CoFluent Design has added to its system modelling and simulation toolset with support for multiple instances in models and capacity for importing/exporting models from libraries.
Designers use CoFluent Studio to model their system's real-time application as a set of communicating concurrent hardware/software-independent processes called "functions" Communication systems such as mobile terminals or networking equipments require the ability to model a large number of simultaneous communications (eg multiple terminals connected to a network of multiple basestations)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 22 May 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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This is achieved by the capacity of modelling and simulating multiple instances of functions and their interfunction relations in CoFluent models.
As the number of instances can be dynamically tuned at simulation time, it is very easy for designers to analyse for example the quality of service of a network under different load scenarios.
New or derivative projects start from capitalised experience and reuse many hardware and software components from past projects.
However designers have no ways of capitalising and reusing at the system level, in the project's first 20% when 80% of technical decisions are taken.
During these first 20%, CoFluent Studio allows designers to go through timed-behavioural modelling and system architecting activities for taking the right decisions and preparing efficiently for implementation.
In addition, they can select reusable parts of their models and make them independent Intellectual property (IP) blocks.
Hence, a library of such IPs serves as knowledge repository for all system-level information: behaviour, time properties, architecture, performances, cost etc.
Then, IPs can be reused in other models for creating easily and rapidly new system application and platform models and accelerate the architecture exploration and decision-taking process.
Furthermore, designers can control the visibility of their IPs as they can export and import them as either white boxes (as graphical components) or as black boxes (as compiled SystemC modules) for facilitating work with distributed teams and subcontractors.
The CoFluent Studio toolset is already used by world-leading mobile phone manufacturers, telecommunication network equipment manufacturers and semiconductor providers.
CoFluent Studio V2.0 will be available soon for customer shipments.
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