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Toshiba Selects Celoxica for SoC Development
Celoxica's C-Based Electronic System Level Design and Synthesis
Technology Powers Design for Toshiba's Digital Media SoC
From Specification to Implementation
ABINGDON, England & YOKOHAMA, Japan—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Jan. 27, 2005—
Celoxica, the leading provider of C-based electronic system level
(ESL) design and synthesis solutions, today announced an agreement
with Toshiba Corporation to provide its DK Design Suite of C-based ESL
design and synthesis tools for application design and development
using Toshiba's Media Embedded Processor (MeP) digital media SoC. The
multi-year deal covers C-based design entry, simulation, co-simulation
and synthesis, as well as development hardware, through the
availability of a MeP RapidPlatform developers' kit, and worldwide
marketing and promotion in key market segments.
By combining design technology from Celoxica and Toshiba, MeP
designers are now able to rapidly create unique, custom instructions
from C algorithms. These custom instructions improve system
functionality and performance through the addition of dedicated
hardware for signal processing tasks used in applications such as very
high-end gaming video controllers and video encoders.
Complete system simulation between custom IP and library IP is
enabled through a dedicated co-simulation framework that unites
Celoxica's DK simulator, Toshiba's MeP ISS and RTL simulators.
Critically, the hardware implementation code generated by the DK
Design Suite is directly equivalent to the source simulation models,
dramatically reducing design risk and the burden of verification.
"MeP provides a powerful and flexible digital-media SoC platform,
and it is necessary that our development flow and tool chain is also
powerful and flexible," said Tohru Furuyama, Ph.D., general manager,
SoC research and development center, Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor
Company. "We chose to work with Celoxica, as it has the proven tools
in C-based design and synthesis that enables our internal and external
customers to design more quickly, with lower risk."
To support customer usage of the combined Celoxica/Toshiba design
flow for MeP a dedicated MeP developers kit is also being provided as
part of the agreement. The MeP RapidPlatform developers kit is a
complete out-of-the-box hardware/software solution for MeP rapid
prototyping, design and development. The kit contains the design
software, a high-performance, high-density, feature-rich, FPGA-based
Celoxica RC300MeP development platform, complete with a pre-configured
and pre-loaded Toshiba MeP Core. TFT touch screen and multimedia I/O
is provided as standard as are board support libraries for the very
extensive RC300MeP peripherals, MeP core instantiation and MeP to
hardware communication.
"The agreement is the dividend of joint engineering and business
development between Toshiba and Celoxica and extends the flexibility
and performance that the MeP's configurable and extensible
architecture offers," said Phil Bishop, CEO of Celoxica. "Toshiba's
commitment and vision for a high-level C-based design approach is a
testament to the maturity of Celoxica's ESL solution and is an example
of ESL's effectiveness in the design of complex SoCs."
About Celoxica
An innovator in 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 ext. 204
Karen@vitalcompr.com
or
Neesham PR
Allan Edwards, +44-1442-879-222
allane@neesham.co.uk
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