Monday, June 6, 2011

DAC 2011: SystemC &c, Must-See List (Cheesy), courtesy of John Cooley

Don't let John fool you, it's a very useful list...
Cheers,
Connie
DeepChip.com

(Lots of other good stuff also) ...
6.) 
Mentor Catapult C synthesizes C/C++/SystemC to production quality RTL.       Now does incremental synthesis for ECOs plus it lets SystemC users       synthesize TLM models to create TLM-based virtual prototypes.  Used by       Qualcomm, Hitachi, Ericsson, ST, TI, Telegent, Panasonic, Fuji Xerox,       Toshiba, Fujitsu, Sanyo.  (booth 1542)  Ask for Thomas Bollaert.        

Forte Cynthesizer does SystemC synthesis to Verilog RTL of control and       datapath designs.  Brett's showing a "bus-based system with complex       interfaces in pin and TLM w/ highly abstract coding styles, pipelined       memories, untimed and timed code, and full SystemC support.  Sony,       Realtek, Samsung, Toshiba, Ricoh, Fujitsu, Sanyo, Megachips use it.       (booth 3417)  Ask for Brett Cline.  Freebie: caricatures        

Cadence C-to-Silicon Compiler synthesizes SystemC TLM to Verilog RTL.       They're very proud it's in the whole proprietary CDNS flow.  Will demo       an ECO.  Used by Fujitsu, Renesas, TI, Freescale, Casio, Hitachi.       (booth 2237)  Ask for Mark Warren.  Freebie: t-shirt        

Calypto SLEC 6.0 is *the* C/C++/SystemC equivalency checker.  Now has       a new word-level solver for inductive setups,  SystemC 2.2 support,       automatic wrapper and setup generation, CDNS C2S clock-gating, resets.       (booth 2012)  Ask for Anmol Mathur.  Freebie: none        

Carbon SoC Designer Plus creates cycle-accurate SystemC models of your       chip.  "Swap from the 100s of MIPS performance to 100% accuracy at any       software breakpoint."  Samsung, ST, ST-Ericsson, LG, Huawei, Broadcom       use it.  (booth 1914)  Ask for Bill Neifert.  Freebie: none        

CoFluent Studio does ESL modeling.  New release v4.0 can do automatic       generation of SystemC code from graphics for TLM-2.0 LT/AT and SCML2       interoperability.  Has an Eclipse-based C++ debugger where changes in       user-reserved areas in generated code is propagated back into your       graphical model.  Nokia, RIM, ST, Canon, Seagate, Toyota uses it.       (booth 1815)  Ask for Laurent Isenegger.  Freebie: none        

Bluespec BDW is a GUI for the development, analysis and debug of       high-level models, transactors, stimulus generators using Bluespec       System Verilog (BSV).  Now does source debug with designs in Verilog       simulation/emulation or FPGA prototype.  "This is enabled by BSV's       100% architectural transparency, which is different from high-level       designs that are C-based."  Used by Fujitsu, IBM, Intel and Qualcomm.       (booth 3031)  Ask for George Harper.  Freebie: a book on Bluespec        

Mentor Vista does TLM modeling style architecture design and virtual       prototyping, links to MENT embedded and ESL-to-RTL SoC verification.       Used by Honeywell.  (booth 1542)  Ask for Jon McDonald.        

Target Compiler MP Designer automatically parallelizes C code across       customer-defined multi-core architectures.  (i.e. load balancing)       NXP used it to get 2.9x on a new 3-DSP architecture, compared to a       single DSP, with an instruction-cycle utilization of 97% on each.       (booth 2227)  Ask for Erik Duymelinck.  Freebie: post-it pads        

Cadence SDS/VSP does HW/SW co-design "from architectural-level SW       development through system validation to post-RTL prototyping."  Does       SystemC and UVM.  Used by firmware/software teams at ARM, Nvidia,       Western Digital.  (booth 2237)  Ask for Leo Drucker.        

ApS Brno Codasip uses an architectural description language called       "Codal" and building blocks called "ASIPs" that all synthesizes to       Verilog HDL with known area, power, timing.  They're new to DAC.       (booth 3218)  Ask for Karel Masarik.  Freebie: none        

Mentor Embedded Sourcery CodeBench provides a "complete C/C++ dvlpmnt       environment for embedded software design."  It won the Embeddy Award       at the recent ESC 2011.  (booth 1542)  Ask for Stephen Olsen.
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Lots of other good stuff...

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