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News Release from: CoWare | Subject: Signal Processing Worksystem
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 23 January 2004
Worksystem unites algorithm and protocol
design
The latest version of the CoWare Signal Processing Worksystem (SPW) features new integration to the company's SystemC-based ConvergenSC SoC design tools.
The latest version of the CoWare Signal Processing Worksystem (SPW) features new integration to the company's SystemC-based ConvergenSC SoC design tools The new capabilities provide the ability to easily integrate algorithmic design components into the SoC architecture, and develop and test algorithmic datapath and control functions together
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 3 Dec 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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By using the new CoWare solution, customers can speed the design process for applications such as mobile phones, home networking, and digital video devices.
"With the ever-increasing design complexity being introduced with emerging cellular and wireless LAN standards, we have a growing need to combine our advanced Layer 1 algorithms with the protocol standards in a cohesive design flow", said John Kaewell, Senior Vice President, Advanced Product Development, InterDigital Communications Corporation.
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"Prior to the integration of SPW and ConvergenSC, industry methodologies for combining these functions were ad hoc.
This integration enables us to combine baseband and control earlier in the design cycle".
The latest mobile phone designs are an example of the ever-increasing levels of interaction between algorithms and protocol software.
As a result, the interaction of the control functions in the software with the algorithmic datapath components must be exhaustively tested.
Previously, the inability to effectively evaluate an entire design containing datapath and control resulted in inconsistencies and schedule risk.
Now, SPW can export the datapath components as SystemC models, for integration with the software and the full SoC architecture in ConvergenSC.
This enables system optimisation and software development long before implementation, and helps designers define and build designs that will work right the first time.
To make effective architecture and performance tradeoffs, it is beneficial to simulate the entire system at an abstracted level.
However, the challenge has been the availability of such models for the entire SoC and system testbench.
The integration of SPW and ConvergenSC brings thousands of SPW algorithm building blocks and reference design libraries to SystemC designers.
"Customers need complete and fully integrated system-level design solutions", said Johannes Stahl, the newly appointed Director of Marketing for CoWare's SPW product line.
"Through this integration of ConvergenSC and SPW, we are delivering a combination of powerful technologies to accurately design real world operations of wireless and consumer chips.
I recently joined CoWare to further strengthen CoWare's leadership in system-level design".
SPW 4.8.3 and ConvergenSC are available now and run on Sun Solaris and Linux platforms.
The new SPW to ConvergenSC link is included as part of ongoing SPW maintenance agreements.
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