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23 May 2005
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CoWare, Magma Design Automation, MIPS Technologies and Virage Logic to Co-Host Hands-On Tutorial Session at Design Automation Conference
Four leading technology companies, CoWare® Inc., Magma® Design Automation Inc., MIPS Technologies, Inc.and Virage Logic Corporation have joined to lead a hands-on tutorial as part of the System-Level Design and Verification track at the 2005 Design Automation Conference (DAC). The tutorial session will be held on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 at the Anaheim Convention Center, Room 211AB, from 2 p.m.-5 p.m.
Attendees will observe a complete system-level design process, starting from exploring the system architecture and trading-off hardware and system software partitioning. They will derive CorExtendT User Defined Instructions to extend the instruction set of the MIPS32® 24K® core using CoWare's CORXpertT. The resulting RTL block can be taken all the way through GDSII with Magma's Blast CreateT and Blast Fusion® IC implementation flow. The CorExtend block helps the resulting extended MIPS® core to better perform application-specific tasks. The use of Virage Logic's metal programmable cell library for the implementation enables different CorExtend instructions targeting different applications to be implemented with fast turn around time and lower manufacturing cost using metal only changes.
Aimed at ASIC/SoC designers, system architects, system platform designers and SoC design engineers needing the latest information on design tools and IP, this hands-on tutorial experience demonstrates an integrated solution offering custom ASIC optimization-with platform SoC savings-that enables fast design turn around time with metal only changes. This solution features:
• CoWare's system-level design to explore extensions of the MIPS32® 24K® Pro microprocessor core through application optimized instructions
• Magma Design Automation's Unified Implementation Design Flow that seamlessly handles standard cell and structured ASIC designs on the same chip
• MIPS Technologies' high-performance MIPS32® 24K® Pro microprocessor featuring CorExtendT user defined instructions
• Virage Logic's ASAP LogicT Metal Programmable cell library enabling extensive and rapid changes with only metal mask changes
Registration cost for the hands-on tutorial session is $75.00 per person and seating is very limited. To register for the tutorial, please go to http://www.dac.com/42nd/reg.html . For more information about 2005 DAC, please visit http://www.dac.com/42nd/index.html .
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