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News Release from: Vast Systems Technology | Subject: Comet6
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Team on 26 April 2007
Virtual prototyping embraces industry
standards
The latest version of the Comet virtual system prototyping solution includes greater interoperability through native IEEE1666 SystemC and OCP-IP TL2.
Vast Systems Technology Corp is driving deeper into the embedded systems design supply chain with expanded standards support in Comet6 The latest version of its flagship virtual system prototyping solutions includes greater interoperability through native IEEE1666 SystemC and OCP-IP TL2
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 19 Jul 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Comet6 extends Vast's lead in embedded systems design by providing the richest set of product enhancements to date.
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The Comet 5 system engineering environment (SEE) provides quantitative architectural design and evaluation, hardware refinement and verification, and software development.
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Comet6 direct mapping of OCP-IP TL2 constructs improves bus communications performance by 4x for models using OCP-IP TL2.
The Comet6 Eclipse framework, with help from strategic developers like IBM, Intel, Nokia and Wind River, is quickly becoming the de facto industry standard development platform and framework for embedded system design tools.
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Paper looks at model-based development
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"OCP-IP has shipped many thousands of copies of our TLM work over the years and we are particularly proud of their quality and ongoing progression", said Ian Mackintosh, President OCP-IP.
"Comet6 direct mapping of OCP-IP TL2 constructs will further enhance communications performance for models using OCP-IP TL2 reducing time to market, development costs and risk".
Through Eclipse, Comet6 supports customer-developed and third-party Eclipse plugins, allowing tighter integrations with customer-specific design tools and flows.
Together these improvements deliver high performance and standards-based interoperability.
The Comet6 virtual-platform editor (VPE), a platform entry and analysis user interface, speeds specification, configuration and debug of the virtual system prototype.
VPE is a hierarchical block-based capability complementing existing tree-, table- and HTML-based interfaces.
Comet6 supports Linux and has the same functionality, look and feel across Windows and Linux, allowing customers to select whichever operating system they prefer.
"Comet6 s mix of high performance, support for standards and interoperability, and new user interfaces enable Vast customers to achieve even greater levels of productivity", said Jeff Roane, Vast's Vice President of Marketing.
Multicore systems on chips (SoCs) are quickly becoming the norm in wireless and consumer applications.
In wireless, for instance, the combination of ARM and StarCore processors is very prevalent.
Comet6 features run-time improvements for multicore design that deliver linear run-time performance versus the number of cores.
With Comet6 designers can accurately analyse and optimise architecture and software for power.
With battery life a critical constraint for consumer and wireless devices, power must be managed at each stage of the design flow.
Comet6 provides a customisable cycle-accurate event-based power calculator that enables power analysis and optimisation of both the architecture and software.
Comet6 enables virtual system prototypes to drive hardware implementation and verification through HDL cosimulation.
The initial release of Comet6 supports Mentor Graphics ModelSim VHDL; subsequent releases will support additional simulators such as ModelSim Verilog, Cadence Incisive HDL Simulator, and Synopsys VCS.
Comet6 is available now, in limited production and will be generally available from 27th April 2007.
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