Cosimulation tool scoops EDN award

The MathWorks software tool Link for ModelSim has won the EDN Innovation of the Year Award in the EDA: Design Exploration category.

The MathWorks software tool Link for ModelSim has won the EDN Innovation of the Year Award in the EDA: Design Exploration category.

This exclusive awards programme honours outstanding electronic products, ranging from integrated circuits to test equipment, and the creative engineers who invent them.

The editors of EDN selected Link for ModelSim, which provides a cosimulation interface between The MathWorks Matlab and Simulink technical computing and simulation environments and Mentor Graphics ModelSim, the company's high-performance, high-capacity HDL simulator, as a finalist from a field of hundreds of candidates.

EDN readers then chose the winners from 16 product categories via an online ballot.

The winners of the 2003 EDN Innovation Awards were announced at the 14th annual awards ceremony on 29th March at the W Hotel in San Francisco, California.

"Despite a tough economy in 2003, it's clear that the innovative spirit is still flourishing in the electronics industry", said Maury Wright, Editor-in-Chief of EDN Magazine.

"The recipients of the EDN Innovation Award represent the best of the best in developing the products and technologies that handle the interface to the analogue world, that carry the computational burden for multimedia and communications, and that implement test, development, and design for semiconductors and systems via software".

Link for ModelSim is the first product to integrate The MathWorks products directly into a hardware verification flow.

System engineers use Matlab and Simulink to create behavioural models of hardware systems that serve as executable specifications for implementation.

Link for ModelSim provides system-level verification, software test benching, component modelling, and analysis capabilities.

As a result, engineers can easily verify the HDL implementation against its original specification in Matlab or Simulink, and gain rapid insight into HDL implementation problems.

Engineers can now incorporate HDL into system-level simulations to automate a critical step in the verification process, dramatically reducing development time and minimising the potential for errors.

"We are pleased that The MathWorks Link for ModelSim cosimulation interface is lauded by our industry peers", said Robert Hum, Vice President and General Manager, Design Verification and Test Division, Mentor Graphics.

"Mentor Graphics and The MathWorks are committed to providing designers with an innovative, efficient tool flow to co-simulate, test and verify mixed-system level design descriptions in Matlab or Simulink with VHDL and Verilog".

"We are delighted to be recognised with Mentor Graphics as industry leaders by EDN and their readers", said Ken Karnofsky, Director of Marketing, Signal Processing and Communications, The MathWorks.

"By partnering with Mentor Graphics to deliver an integrated system-level verification flow, we are providing a much needed capability for engineers in the rapidly expanding market for FPGAs as a platform for high-performance DSP, as well as the ASIC/SoC signal processing market".

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