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News Release from: CoWare | Subject: ConvergenSC
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 December 2004
Virtual platforms speed Oki SoC
development
Oki Electric has developed a system level SoC verification methodology for its uPlat development platform using the SystemC-based ConvergenSC SoC design environment from CoWare.
Oki Electric has developed a system level SoC verification methodology for uPlat, its integrated platform for system-on-chip (SoC) development, by using the SystemC-based ConvergenSC SoC design environment from CoWare The adoption of this environment has reduced Oki Electric's SoC development time by one-third
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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After determining that FPGA-based prototyping board verification could not deliver practical system verification times for the most advanced SoCs - with their increasing speed and level of integration - Oki Electric developed a new design methodology capable of simulating entire systems.
"By deploying ConvergenSC, Oki Electric has succeeded in creating and simulating operations with a high precision virtual platform with execution cycle count error within 6% of physical prototyping boards, which were supplied to customers for SoC verification", said Masasuke Kishi, Vice President, Silicon Solutions Company, Oki Electric Industry Co.
"We therefore have developed a design methodology without the need for prototyping boards".
"This in turn eliminates the time and cost of producing these boards, making it possible to verify systems months earlier, and greatly reducing SoC development time".
"We are pleased that Oki Electric has achieved such great results by leveraging CoWare products for its uPlat virtual platforms", said Alan Naumann, President and CEO of CoWare.
"Oki Electric's uPlat is recognised for its ability to minimise SoC development time.
CoWare ConvergenSC brings a new level of innovation to uPlat, helping Oki Electric and its customers further reduce design cycle times and costs while improving design efficiency in SoC development".
CoWare's ConvergenSC offers a vast range of analysis functions, an Amba bus generator, the industry's largest IP model library for SystemC including ARM models, and a high-performance software development environment with excellent cost efficiency, providing overall speed and exactness.
The environment makes it easy to build a virtual platform for initial software development and hardware/software codesign.
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