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News Release from: CoWare
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 April 2004
Alliance to speed SoC design and reduce
risk
Sonics and CoWare have formed a long-term strategic partnership to speed the development of complex SoCs.
Sonics and CoWare have formed a long-term strategic partnership to speed the development of complex SoCs The companies will work together to create SystemC-based design solutions using CoWare's ConvergenSC system-level design tools and Sonics' Smart Interconnect IP products
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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"We selected Sonics as a strategic partner because their Smart Interconnect IP products are an increasingly important technology for the development of complex SoCs", said Alan Naumann, President and CEO of CoWare.
"Our customers are asking us to combine our system-level design solutions with Sonics' Interconnect IP to rapidly design high-performance, multi-million-gate SoCs".
"CoWare is a leader in system-level electronic design automation, and the ConvergenSC SystemC-based system-level design environment is widely used among developers of complex SoCs", said Grant Pierce, President and CEO of Sonics.
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"This partnership will create a very powerful solution to help our customers minimise risk, reduce design costs, and accelerate time to market".
One of the most difficult and risky tasks facing SoC design teams is architecting and verifying complex designs before committing to costly silicon production.
Designers are rapidly adopting system-level design using SystemC to quickly design and validate alternative architecture choices.
Likewise, the on-chip interconnect is becoming one of the most important architectural and design decisions that a team must make.
CoWare and Sonics formed this long-term strategic partnership to meet the needs of engineers needing to move up to system-level design and SystemC.
Sonics Smart Interconnect IP connects complex IP blocks such as microprocessors, DSPs, and hardware accelerators such as MPEG2 and MPEG4 encoders/decoders with any other IP block with a high degree of silicon efficiency and high data throughput.
CoWare's ConvergenSC speeds the design of SoCs with embedded software with hardware-software partitioning, platform design automation, and architecture analysis tools.
The results of the partnership will enable system-level design for the two companies' mutual customers, greatly speeding development time while increasing predictability.
As a result, the likelihood of producing successful, high-performance first pass silicon will be greatly increased.
The first deliverables being created through this collaboration are under development with the guidance of key customers and will be announced in the second half of 2004.
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