CoWare Showcases SystemC Leadership at DAC With Demonstrations and Seminars

Offers Hands-on Tutorial and SystemC Seminars in Addition to In-depth Product Demonstrations

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- CoWare(TM), Inc., the co-founder of the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), will demonstrate its leadership in SystemC language system-level design tools and methodologies for hardware/software co-design and IP re-use at this year's Design Automation Conference, June 10-13, in New Orleans (see www.dac.com). In addition to hosting an active booth (number 2658) and demonstration suite (number 4650), CoWare will hold seminars on SystemC for system-level design and a hands-on tutorial on hardware-software integration on the ARM® wireless PrimeXsys platform.

"Since we launched the SystemC language nearly three years ago, CoWare has shown consistent leadership. Now our proven hardware/software co-design methodology and the most extensive and successful system-level design tool set in the industry fully supports SystemC," stated Pete Hardee, CoWare's director of product marketing and secretary of OSCI. "Top tier companies, including industry giants Matsushita, Sony and STMicroelectronics, have demonstrated that our CoWare N2C(TM) design system has cut their overall hardware/software design time by half or more."

SystemC Seminars

CoWare's SystemC Seminar will be given by the chair of OSCI's language working group, Dundar Dumlugol, Ph.D. In this hour-and-a-half seminar, titled "System-Level Design with SystemC and CoWare N2C," attendees will learn how SystemC v2.0 can be applied in a top-down hardware/software co-design flow or in a platform-based SoC (system-on-chip) design flow. Dr. Dumlugol also will explain how transaction-level modeling can be used to explore ARM AMBA platform design alternatives with simulation speeds above 100 kHz.

The tutorial will be given four times during DAC in CoWare's suite number 4650, at 2 p.m. on Monday, June 10, 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Tuesday, June 11, and 9 am on Wednesday, June 12. Interested attendees should send an email to info@coware.com to reserve a seat, as these sessions are expected to fill up rapidly.

Hands-on Tutorial

CoWare and ARM are jointly delivering a hands-on tutorial on Wednesday, June 12, from 8 a.m. to 12 noon in room 293 of the convention center titled, "Hardware-Software Integration on the ARM Wireless PrimeXsys Platform using the CoWare N2C Design System." In this tutorial, two very crucial aspects of embedded systems verification will be discussed: choosing and verifying the optimal SoC architecture prior to implementation/prototype, and verifying system integration and software interactions, paying particular attention to the simulation speed and debugging visibility for the hardware and embedded software.

During this tutorial, attendees will verify the Wireless PrimeXsys Platform based on the ARM926 microprocessor core, ARM PrimeCell peripherals and the multi-layer AHB bus. The CoWare N2C design system will be used to simulate, debug and analyze the ARM-based platform.

Interested attendees should register for this tutorial when they get to the Design Automation Conference.

Suite Demonstrations

CoWare also will demonstrate the latest innovations in its CoWare N2C design software in its suite. To register for an appointment to get an in-depth look at this software, please send an email to info@coware.com or contact your local sales representative. A list is available at www.coware.com/offices.html .

About the CoWare N2C Design System

The CoWare N2C Design system is a family of products that collectively make up the industry 's most comprehensive set of tools for designing SoCs and flexible platforms at the system level using C or SystemC. The CoWare N2C Design System fully supports SystemC version 2.0, including the master-slave communications library. Family members include:

• CoWare N2C Advanced System Designer -- a complete system-level design solution for system architects and hardware implementers.
• CoWare N2C System Designer -- a complete hardware/software co-simulation solution for systems integrators, software developers and verification engineers.
• CoWare N2C HDL Import (separately priced option to either Advanced System Designer or System Designer) -- allows legacy VHDL or Verilog to be migrated to C or SystemC for use in a system-level design flow.

The CoWare N2C family is supported by a wide range of CoWare aWare processor support packages, bus models and related silicon IP.

About CoWare

As the leading supplier of tools for system-level electronic design automation (EDA), CoWare, Inc. provides a platform-based design methodology that can cut system-on-a-chip (SoC) design time in half. As a founder and leader of SystemC, CoWare is driving the industry towards a unifying system design language. The CoWare software is employed by major systems, IP and semiconductor companies including Alcatel, ARM, Canon, Fujitsu, InterDigital, Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sanyo, Sony, STMicroelectronics, Tensilica and Toshiba. CoWare was recognized as the 5th fastest-growing private company in Silicon Valley in 2000 (1). For more information, visit www.CoWare.com.

NOTE: CoWare, CoWare N2C, CoWare aWare and Interface Synthesis are trademarks of CoWare, Inc.

ARM and AMBA are registered trademarks of ARM Ltd.