Celoxica Delivers ESL Design for Real-Time Security and Fraud Detection; JAIST System Design Improves Internet-Based Watermarking Detection Performance by 148xSearch: EDACafeCompany NewsDownloadsJob SearchCompany DirectoryProduct by Company NameProduct by CategoryProduct by NameProduct by Description Home | EDA Weekly | Companies | Downloads | e-Catalog | IP | Interviews | Forums | News | Resources | Check Email | Submit Material | Universities | Books | Events | Advertise | PCBCafe| Subscription | techjobscafe | ItZnewz | EDACafe EDA Portal, EDA News, EDA Jobs, EDA Presentations, EDA Newsgroups, Electronic Design Automation. Celoxica Delivers ESL Design for Real-Time Security and Fraud Detection; JAIST System Design Improves Internet-Based Watermarking Detection Performance by 148x ABINGDON, England—(BUSINESS WIRE)—April 11, 2005— Celoxica Ltd., the leading provider of C-based electronic system level (ESL) design and synthesis solutions and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST), have developed a high-speed digital watermarking detection system with real-time operation across the Internet. The joint research project used ESL design and C-based synthesis to accelerate watermarking algorithms in a hardware co-processor. The project resulted in a low-power solution that runs detection scanning 148 times faster than software only configurations. The complex algorithm design was implemented using Celoxica's DK Design Suite of ESL tools and RC Series hardware platforms. Digital watermarking is increasingly being used in response to the escalating misuse, and illegal copying and distribution of multimedia content. Digital watermarks embed hidden data into digital content or media. These watermarks contain copyright information identifying the origins, ownership and authenticity of the content. The research project at JAIST developed an accelerated watermarking solution for audio content. The project increased detection efficiency and implemented multiple watermarks in parallel using hardware co-processing. "Digital watermark detection by software alone is too slow and power hungry, and it cannot catch illegal audio files that are exchanged over the Internet," said Yasushi Inoguchi, associate professor at the center for information science at JAIST. "Using C-based design and synthesis technology we were able to easily capture the complex watermarking algorithms and accelerate the watermark detection scheme in a co-processor, exploiting the power and performance benefits of programmable hardware." Supported by Celoxica and Japan's Science and Technology Agency (JST), JAIST researchers used Celoxica's DK Design Suite to design the watermarking algorithms and implement them from C to hardware. A Celoxica RC Series development board was selected as the hardware platform. Tests using a benchmark for detection of 50 watermarks show that the JAIST solution achieved detection times of 500ms (326.4Mpbs) running hardware co-processing at 30MHz. This compared to detection times of 74351ms (2.2Mbps) for a Pentium 4 microprocessor running at 2.8GHz in a software only implementation. "The level of performance improvement that was achieved makes it possible to perform real-time watermarking detection of content exchanged over a network," said Colin Mason, VP Asia Pacific, general manager and representative director, Celoxica Japan K.K. "It provides yet another example of how designers are increasingly using our DK Design Suite and RC algorithm accelerators to speed-up systems and IP in different processing architectures, particularly where the mismatch between power and performance is becoming a critical design problem." More information about this project has been published trough the IEICE Computer society. About Celoxica An innovator in Electronic System Level (ESL) design, Celoxica supplies the design tools, boards, IP and services that enable the next generation of advanced electronic product design. Celoxica technology raises design abstraction to the algorithm level, accelerating productivity and lowering risk and costs by generating semiconductor hardware directly from C-based software descriptions. Adding to a growing installed base, Celoxica provides the world's most widely used C-based behavioral design and synthesis solutions to companies developing semiconductor products in markets such as consumer electronics, defense and aerospace, automotive, industrial and security. For more information, visit: www.celoxica.com. About JAIST Founded in 1990,the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) was the first national university in Japan to focus exclusively on graduate-level training and research. Organized into three departments (Information Science, Materials Science, Knowledge Science), JAIST provides up-to-date graduate training for up to 600 students while maintaining competitive research programs through various dedicated centers, such as technical computing, nanotechnology and information security. For more information, go to www.jaist.ac.jp. About JST Japan Science and Technology Agency's (JST) mission is to promote science and technology in Japan by conducting a broad range of activities, including 1) Promotion of consistent research and development from basic research to commercialization with particular emphasis on the creation of new technological seeds, 2) Upgrading the infrastructure for the promotion of science and technology, including dissemination of scientific and technological information. 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. 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