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News Release from: Vast Systems Technology
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Team on 20 December 2005
StarCore joins partnership initiative
StarCore has joined the Vast Universe partnership initiative.
StarCore has joined the Vast Universe partnership initiative Vast's and StarCore's customers are using Vast's Virtual 1st Silicon to model complex StarCore-based wireless and multimedia devices
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Vast Universe is composed of Vast and semiconductor suppliers.
Virtual 1st Silicon is a high-speed, cycle-accurate software model of a system on chip (SoC) that enables full software development well in advance of actual first silicon.
Vast Universe formalises the process by which Virtual 1st Silicon is developed, distributed and jointly marketed with semiconductor suppliers.
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Together with Vast, semiconductor suppliers model the complete SoC including processor cores, peripheral devices, buses and bus interface units.
This Virtual 1st Silicon is then handed off to software development teams for development of the target software.
Vast and the semiconductor supplier work together to provide tools flow integration and technical support to the end customer.
"StarCore has co-operated closely with Vast on simulation solutions for our processor cores and subsystems".
"Already several of our customers have successfully used Vast technology to model complex StarCore-based wireless and multimedia devices".
"Customer demand for more system simulation solutions is surging", said Alex Bedarida, General Manager at StarCore.
"Vast's Virtual 1st Silicon technology enables our licensees to offer their customers a software development platform from the early phases of system design, long before engineering samples are available".
The benefits of Vast's Virtual 1st Silicon technology are both substantial and quantifiable: reductions in time to market, of the order of one year, have already been achieved; reductions in time to volume, which goes hand-in-hand with time to market; identification of hard-to-find functional errors found only through early software development in system level operation, which reduces the probability of a silicon respin; and mitigation of any impact from silicon implementation schedule slips, as software development can begin using the virtual silicon rather than the manufactured silicon.
Vast is focused on semiconductor organisations that supply the automotive, consumer, and wireless markets.
These markets are experiencing rapid technological convergence and exponential growth in software content.
"When significant functionality is delivered through software, waiting for first manufactured silicon to begin software development simply isn't viable".
"Through Universe, Vast and semiconductor suppliers deliver a powerful and more complete time-to-market solution to our global customers", said Alain Labat, CEO of Vast.
With Vast, designers can quantify and optimise architectural performance long before RTL is developed, and the byproduct of this work, a virtual system prototype, can be handed off for early software development.
Vast is engaged with many leading semiconductor companies and their customers.
Over time, Vast will separately announce the participation of more companies in Vast Universe as well as specific product support for these companies.
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