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Cadence Selected By STMicroelectronics to Support System Design Based On New ST100 DSP
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2001--
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CDN), the world's leading
supplier of electronic design products and services, has announced
that STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM) has selected the Cadence® Signal
Processing Worksystem (SPW) as the design environment of choice for
designers using the ST100 digital signal processor (DSP) core
architecture for markets such as cellular phones, telecommunication
systems, and advanced multimedia products.
Cadence's SPW has been enhanced with a new instruction set
simulator (ISS) for the ST100 core, including debuggers and extensive
documentation. The Cadence system's support of the ST100 enables
state-of-the-art multi-core simulation to facilitate fast time to
market and design reuse.
The ST100 core is a high-performance DSP core with 32-bit
load/store architecture with multiple calculation units. The ST120
implementation has two arithmetic logic units (ALUs), and two
multiply-accumulate units (MAC). Flexibility with three selectable
instruction sets provides high DSP performance combined with efficient
MCU capabilities.
In SPW, reusable C/C++ virtual components are modeled in floating
point to optimize algorithmic performance, then switched to fixed
point for portions of the model that are implemented as software on
the ST100 or in hardware. With a wireless system, the complete ST100
and ASIC can be simulated with RF front-end effects from Cadence's
SpectreRF product for an accurate RF baseband simulation and
co-simulated with Cadence's NC-Sim to analyze and verify the ASIC.
``The Cadence SPW provides the most complete, industry-proven flow
from
system-level design to hardware implementation of any DSP
design environment,'' said Jean-Claude Michalina, director of the
DSP&Micro Division of STMicroelectronics. ``By using SPW, our customers
will be able to develop advanced consumer electronics product quickly
by having a state-of-the-art multi-core simulation design environment
with a rapid flow to implementation.''
``The Cadence SPW software accelerates design and verification of
DSP-intensive products by providing the fastest simulation, powerful
analysis, and rapid implementation, thus reducing time to market. The
integration of the ST100 core ISS and leading-edge debugger and C++
compiler from Green Hills Software brings hardware and software design
capabilities together for communication and multimedia system-on-chip
SOC) design,'' said Les Wilson, Cadence director of marketing for the
SPW product.
The SPW ST100 ISS and documentation are available immediately from
Cadence at no charge. The SPW ST100 ISS is available for the Sun Unix
platform.
SPW is a block-oriented design, simulation, and implementation
environment for electronic systems. The SPW software is ideal for
algorithm development, filter design, C code generation,
hardware/software architecture co-design, and hardware synthesis. A
wide selection of polymorphic libraries are available that support
communication and multimedia applications including baseband and
physical layer processing of GSM EDGE, 3GPP, and Bluetooth, as well as
JPEG2000 and MPEG2 standards.
About STMicroelectronics
STMicroelectronics (formerly SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics) is a
global independent semiconductor company, whose shares are traded on
the New York Stock Exchange, Paris Bourse, and Milan Stock Exchange.
The company designs, develops, manufactures, and markets a broad range
of semiconductor integrated circuits and discrete devices used in a
wide variety of microelectronic applications including
telecommunications systems, computer systems, consumer products,
automotive products, and industrial automation and control systems.
For more information, visit http://www.st.com.
About Cadence
Cadence is the largest supplier of electronic design automation
products, methodology services, and design services used to accelerate
and manage the design of semiconductors, computer systems, networking
and telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics, and a variety
of other electronics-based products. With approximately 5,400
employees and 2000 revenues of approximately $1.3 billion, Cadence has
sales offices, design centers, and research facilities around the
world. The Company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. and traded on
the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CDN. More information
about the company, its products and services may be obtained from the
World Wide Web at www.cadence.com.
Cadence and the Cadence logo are registered trademarks of Cadence
Design Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
Contact:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Valerie Smith, 408/428-5795
vsmith@cadence.com
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