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Celoxica Upgrades ESL Design Portfolio
Latest Release of DK Design Suite of System Design Tools Improves SoC
Prototyping from C-based Algorithms and Supports New FPGA Devices and
Embedded Processors
ABINGDON, England—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dec. 13, 2004—
Celoxica, the leading provider of C-based design and synthesis
solutions, today announced the release of version 3.1 of the DK Design
Suite. DK3.1 provides high-level system co-design, verification and
C-based synthesis for complex algorithm implementation to high-density
FPGA and Programmable SoC devices.
The new release extends the functionality, integration and silicon
coverage of Celoxica's leading ESL design environment and improves the
quality of results and designer productivity for generating production
grade FPGA designs and rapid ASIC and SoC prototypes. DK3.1 also
includes performance upgrades to the Nexus-PDK co-verification
environment and new device support in the integrated Platform
Developers Kit (PDK) board and processor support packages.
DK3.1 improves support for the implementation path from prototype
to SoC through advanced high-level synthesis featuring IEEE compliant
VHDL and Verilog output, automatically generated from complex C
algorithms. The resulting RTL code is compatible with common ASIC
design flows. VHDL output conforms to the IEEE 1076.6-1999 standard
for VHDL RTL synthesis and uses the numeric_std standard synthesis
package. Verilog output conforms to the IEEE 1364-2001 standard and
supports signed arithmetics and other additions to the language.
The DK3.1 tool extends silicon coverage for direct C-language
synthesis of complex algorithms to optimized EDIF netlists. The
version includes device support for Cyclone II and Stratix II from
Altera Corp. and the Virtex-4 family from Xilinx Inc. Additional
features in DK3.1 include new optimization capabilities and upgraded
design and build status reports to provide users more comprehensive
information access.
"Advanced FPGA design projects are increasingly defined by the
need to quickly implement a complex system algorithm into the device
architectures," said Jeff Jussel, vice president of marketing for
Celoxica. "FPGA design flows need to keep pace by delivering the
system-level capabilities designers require. In DK3.1 we've raised the
bar yet again in terms of features, functionality and maturity.
Through co-design, system verification and C-based synthesis, DK3.1
users are able to harness the power and potential of the next
generation FPGA and Programmable SoC devices."
Version 3.1 of Celoxica's DK Design Suite is available immediately
with tight integration to FPGA vendor software such as Altera's
Quartus II v4.1 and ISE 6.3i from Xilinx. Delivered with DK3.1,
Celoxica's upgraded PDK packages support Nios, Nios II and MicroBlaze
soft-cores and all popular FPGA bus specifications including Avalon,
FSL, OPB and PLB. Also available, Celoxica's popular COTS boards
integrate to DK3.1 to enable rapid implementation of SoC prototypes. A
new set of parameterized IP including an FFT library and a Cordic
Library is also available with the DK3.1 version.
About Celoxica
An innovator in Electronic System Level (ESL) design, Celoxica
supplies the design technology, IP and services that define
Software-Compiled System Design, a methodology that exploits higher
levels of design abstraction to dramatically improve silicon design
productivity. Celoxica's products address hardware/software
partitioning, co-verification and C-based synthesis. Established in
1996, Celoxica offers a proven route from complex algorithms to
hardware, and provides a portfolio of ESL design tools that deliver
significant productivity advantages for digital signal processing
applications such as imaging, electronic security and communications.
For more information, visit: www.celoxica.com.
Celoxica and the Celoxica logo are trademarks of Celoxica, Ltd.
All other brand names and product names are the property of their
respective owners.
Contact:
Celoxica Ltd.
Jeff Jussel, 512-795-8170
jeff.jussel@celoxica.com
or
VitalCom Marketing & PR
Karen Tyrrell, 650-366-8212 x204
Karen@vitalcompr.com
or
Neesham PR
Allan Edwards, +44-1442-879-222
allane@neesham.co.uk
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