CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
29 June 2004
Product News
Carbon's DesignPlayerT Engine Executes in CoWare's SystemC Simulator
Carbon Design Systems announced that it has integrated Carbon's DesignPlayer engine into CoWare's ConvergenSC SystemC simulator and joined CoWare's CoTeam partnership program.
"Carbon's DesignPlayer integration enables mutual customers to incorporate legacy IP into high speed SystemC simulations using ConvergenSC," said Mark Milligan, VP of Marketing at CoWare. "This complements our SystemC ConvergenSC Model Library containing 3rd party IP, by giving customers the ability to use DesignPlayer to generate fast software objects of their IP that can be directly linked into a ConvergenSC simulation."
Carbon's SPEEDCompilerT software reads synthesizable Verilog and generates a high-performance engine-DesignPlayer-that now includes an optional SystemC wrapper. DesignPlayer is a software object that can be directly linked into a SystemC simulator, such as CoWare's ConvergenSC. In contrast to co-simulation approaches, a DesignPlayer engine becomes part of a unified SystemC simulation.
DesignPlayer can represent one or more chips and multiple engines can represent a system that encompasses hundreds of millions of gates. DesignPlayer is a soft-model that is accurate to the hardware-cycle and register accurate. Unlike behavioral models or C models generated from an ideal specification, DesignPlayer behaves exactly like the hardware with all its errata.
Hardware designers now have the cycles they need to run complete regression suites before chip tapeout. Software designers can finally test and debug their code on a high performance, cycle accurate, linkable model. Customers get an executable specification that contains the silicon errata for system integration and test.
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