Big guns commit to behavioural synthesis

Three major customers have expanded their adoption of Forte's Cynthesiser behavioural synthesis product by signing multiple-year licence agreements.

Three major customers - Hitachi, Canon and Sony - have expanded their adoption of Forte's Cynthesizer behavioural synthesis product by signing multiple-year licence agreements.

Cynthesizer was cited as a key part of the hardware and ESL design methodologies for synthesis of abstract C algorithms to high-quality RTL.

Hitachi first introduced Cynthesizer two years ago and adopted it for large-scale SoC design for its state of the art digital consumer electronics, aiming at ubiquitous society.

After a successful completion of the first project, the company has now entered into a multiyear contract for both new and derivative products.

The Office Imaging Products System Development centre of Canon has been using Forte Cynthesizer for its large-scale SoC design for more than two years, with tape-outs in several projects.

Moving forward, the company will use SystemC in larger-scale SoC development projects and more designers will use Cynthesizer for TLM based verification and synthesis.

Sony Corporation was Forte's first customer and has been using Cynthesizer for production projects for more than four years.

The company has several SoCs already delivered and has records for tape-out.

Sony has also contributed to the improvement of the Cynthesizer design methodology through joint development projects aimed at increasing the breadth of target design applications as well as raising the level of abstraction available to the design teams.

"We are extremely proud and pleased that these three leading electronics companies in Japan have expanded their relationship with Forte", said Sean Dart, President and CEO of Forte.

"We benefit when our customers such as Canon, Hitachi and Sony contribute critical ideas to our behavioural synthesis leadership and we look forward to continued success together".

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