CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
8 September 2004
Product News
CoFluent Design Ships New Flavors of its ESL Design Toolset to Better Match Market's Demand
The new CoFluent StudioT packaging reflects customers' needs to view their system as the composition of an application (platform-independent model) running on an execution platform rather than the simpler and usual hardware/software dichotomy. By adapting their teams to support this trend, major OEMs plan to release more complex products in shorter timeframes.
This application/platform vision ensures higher maintainability and adaptability of systems as well as more flexibility and efficiency in developments as application and platform are clearly identified and separated.
"The CoFluent Studio product line was thought from the beginning to enable this vision by allowing development teams to consider and design applications and platforms independently from each other, and try-out multiple system architectures resulting from the mapping or allocation of application elements to platform components" said Jean-Paul Calvez, CoFluent's Chief Scientist.
The development tools ecosystem has naturally organized itself around the hardware and software worlds, resulting in 2 large industries: Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and Embedded Software.
The CoFluent Studio product line pertains to both worlds and bridges the gap between different categories:
• System Engineering tools aimed at high-level system specifications
• Model-Driven Architecture® (MDA) or Design (MDD) tools targeting software-only applications
• Usual Electronic System Level (ESL) design tools targeting System-on-Chip (SoC)-only platforms
The first package, CoFluent Studio for Timed-Behavioral Modeling, enhances MDA/MDD approaches with support of time properties for modeling and simulating real-time applications in a hardware/software-agnostic way.
The second package, CoFluent Studio for System Architecting, goes beyond platform-level ESL design tools by simulating at a higher abstraction level the application model (created with the first package) on different models of hardware platforms.
From simple graphics and C/C++ code entry, a virtual system platform description is obtained in a SystemC representation for further validation and implementation with ESL/EDA tools.
Hence, before entering software prototyping and detailed platform design, the CoFluent Studio packages enable system designers to define the right architecture for the right functionality very early on the project. "It enables users to reduce development time, risks and costs of final products" said Stephane Leclercq, CoFluent's CEO.
The CoFluent Studio product line targets real-time systems with rich application content, whether multi-board (large equipments), on-board (embedded systems) or on-chip (SoCs, FPGAs, ASICs, ASSPs).
Application domains include multimedia applications for telecommunications and networks, as well as military systems.
CoFluent Studio for Timed-Behavioral Modeling is targeted at system and specification engineers as well as software developers.
CoFluent Studio for System Architecting is targeted at system architects.
The Real-Time Software extension is targeted at software developers for automating real-time embedded software coding for Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS). For more information: http://www.cofluentdesign.com or Contact: Vincent Perrier +33-240-683-246 vincent.perrier@cofluentdesign.com
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