Design software for programmable logic arrays

Programmable logic and design software specialist team up on design tools for field programmable object arrays.

MathStar and Mentor Graphics have announced a development partnership for design tools that MathStar's customers use with MathStar's field programmable object arrays (FPOAs).

MathStar also announced immediate availability of version 2.0 of its design tools for the Arrix family of FPOAs based on the Visual Elite System Design tool from Mentor Graphics.

MathStar's 2.0 release of MathStar Design Software includes the 2005.1.5 release of Visual Elite System Design from Mentor Graphics for design creation, programming and functional verification.

In addition, MathStar and Mentor Graphics will further improve tool integration, to offer a wider variety of design and verification options for customers using MathStar's high-performance FPOAs.

"Our customers have benefited from using the Visual Elite tool as an integrated design and verification environment for the design of FPOAs", says Sean Riley, Vice President, Marketing at MathStar "Mentor's acquisition of Summit Design has allowed MathStar and Mentor to align product roadmaps to enable enhanced support for our hardware and system design customers".

MathStar's FPOAs address a wide variety of applications, including professional video, machine vision, medical imaging, test/instrumentation and digital signal processing.

"We see MathStar as a leader in performance-critical applications where programmability is a requirement", says Glenn Perry, General Manager, Mentor Graphics Design Creation and Analysis business unit.

"MathStar's FPOA architecture is at the forefront of a new class of programmable logic devices requiring Mentor's advanced design creation, analysis, verification and related solutions".

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