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News Release from: CoWare | Subject: ConvergenSC
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 June 2005
Design environment supports MIPS-based
family
CoWare is working with PMC-Sierra to provide an electronic system-level design solution for customers designing products based on PMC Sierra's RM7900 family of MIPS-powered processors.
CoWare is working with PMC-Sierra to provide an electronic system-level (ESL) design solution for customers designing products based on PMC Sierra's RM7900 family of MIPS-powered processors The solution consists of a processor support package for CoWare's ConvergenSC design environment based on an RM7900 SystemC transaction-level model for the processor
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 24 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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CoWare has announced a new standards-based modelling solution for platform-driven ESL design with the new release of CoWare ConvergenSC.
Tools support latest SystemC
CoWare has committed to support the newly released SystemC 2.1 language reference manual (LRM) as it becomes standardised by IEEE P1666.
The inclusion of the RM7900 model in the ConvergenSC Model Library - the industry's largest model library for SystemC - extends the freedom of choice for processor IP demanded by today's systems architects.
The SystemC-based solution provides a significant reduction in overall design time by enabling designers to validate a design's hardware architecture concurrently with embedded software - much earlier than with previous design methods.
"ESL design methods are being adopted rapidly across many different applications", said Pete Hardee, Director of Solutions Marketing for CoWare.
"Our customers are increasingly seeing the value of architectural optimisation and pre-silicon software development - especially in the enterprise communications and office automation segments, where PMC-Sierra's powerful MIPS-powered processors are prevalent".
"As our customers respond to increasing design complexity and increasingly competitive markets, the availability of CoWare's ConvergenSC tools enables them to reduce their time to market", said Vineet Dujari, Manager of Firmware Development for PMC-Sierra's Microprocessor Product Division.
The processor support package for PMC-Sierra's RM7900 series processors is already in use with early access customers and will be available in production release as part of the CoWare ConvergenSC Model Library in late Q2 2005.
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