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News Release from: LSI Europe | Subject: Synplicity Partners in Prototyping
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 February 2006
Prototyping platform joins the programme
An ARM processor prototyping platform is designed to ensure faster system development and a flawless transition to custom silicon, for both standard cell or platform ASIC designs.
LSI Logic has joined the Synplicity Partners in Prototyping (PIP) programme LSI will offer its system prototyping platform for the ARM926EJ-S processor through the partner programme, enabling a hardware and software codesign environment
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The prototyping platform is designed to ensure faster system development and a flawless transition to custom silicon, for both standard cell or platform ASIC designs.
The prototyping platform, announced in December is already being shipped to customers.
"The LSI system prototyping platform can save designers time and effort, while ensuring an 'out-of-the-box' design that greatly reduces design risk", said John Gallagher, Sr Manager of ASIC Synthesis Marketing, Synplicity.
"With LSI as a member of the Synplicity Partners in Prototyping programme, our Synplify Pro, Synplify Premier and Certify customers can now select the LSI system prototyping platform to identify and qualify a design methodology used in RTL functional prototyping".
"By incorporating RTL functional prototyping into the ASIC design flow, the LSI prototyping platform can offer designers substantial time-to-market advantages".
Supported by the recently announced LSI reference ARM subsystem and peripherals, the system prototyping platform is a complete reference evaluation board with a RapidChip Integrator slice with embedded 200MHz ARM926EJ-S processor.
This cost-effective board is ideal for ARM926EJ-S developers in the industrial, medical, communications and office automation markets.
With the integration of ARM cores on ASIC and RapidChip Platform ASIC SoCs becoming commonplace, CPU offload technologies which replace C application code with coprocessors coded in RTL, are vital tools for many designers planning their product roadmaps.
"Platform and standard cell ASIC designers can now test their products before starting their implementation", said Mike Casey, Director of Strategic Marketing, LSI Logic.
"By offering the system prototyping platform and enabling a software debug earlier in the design cycle, our platform helps save valuable time and greatly reduce design risks for custom silicon solutions with platform or standard cell ASICs that require an embedded processor in a single chip".
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