Summit Design's Vista(TM) IDE Simplifies Intellectual Property Development and Design Sharing For SystemC-Based Designs Without A Run-Time License
IP Developers Are Supplied the Freedom and Flexibility to Generate
and Distribute Executables Requiring Only the
OSCI SystemC Simulation Kernel
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Feb. 27, 2006—
Summit Design, Inc., a leading provider of electronic system-level
(ESL) and hardware description language (HDL) design solutions,
announced today that Vista(TM) IDE for SystemC can now easily create
and compile executables of SystemC designs based on the OSCI
simulation kernel. Such designs can be created and debugged with
Vista, but do not depend on the features of Vista once compiled. These
compiled designs can be freely distributed without requiring a Vista
license or distribution agreement. With Vista, intellectual property
(IP) distribution and design sharing is simplified. The IP is shipped
with the requisite testbenches and executable specifications in a
format that requires only the open-source OSCI SystemC kernel for
execution.
First introduced in early 2005, today Vista is a proven integrated
development environment (IDE) for rapid SystemC-based analysis and
debug. It provides advanced SystemC aware debugging and unique
transaction-level analysis. Vista's Transaction Sequence Viewer(TM)
(TSV) supplies the user with direct observation of the key attributes
of SystemC transaction-level modeling (TLM), such as time, kernel
cycles, return value, function attributes, structure and concurrency.
IP Developers are rapidly embracing Vista as a comprehensive IP
development and verification environment because it provides the
welcome flexibility to generate and distribute SystemC-supported
executables without the need for a Vista run-time license.
"Sonics is frequently asked to provide an efficient means by which
our customers can utilize SystemC modeling to distribute their SMART
Interconnect configurations across geographically split engineering
teams," said Phil Casini, vice president of marketing and business
development of Sonics, Inc. "With this new capability, these customers
can better leverage Sonics' OSCI-based SystemC models to support the
completion of their architectural exploration activities."
"Increasingly, IP developers are shipping SystemC models to
customers to facilitate system-level verification and rapid
integration of their IP into designs," said Emil Girczyc, president
and CEO of Summit Design, Inc. "Today, IP developers can take
advantage of Vista's advanced development capabilities. Once the IP is
fully verified, designers simply set a simple flag in Summit's Vista
IDE and recompile to have the IP ready for distribution to customers.
For IP users, the only requirement is the industry standard
open-source OSCI SystemC simulator."
Vista includes an "-OSCI" option that creates a makefile,
compiles, and links the user's SystemC design to the OSCI SystemC
simulation kernel. The resulting OSCI-based executable can be
simulated without consuming a Vista license. Design groups are free to
distribute this executable to others, both inside their company and
out. While this executable does not require a Vista license, groups
that compile the IP must have the OSCI simulation kernel, and the
licensing rights to any other IP in the build. Vista is easing
distribution of IP models and the associated validation tests,
executable testbenches, specification and demonstrations.
About Summit's Vista IDE
Vista(TM) is an integrated development environment (IDE) for
SystemC that combines both hardware and software concepts to speed
design and debug of SystemC applications. It is easy to adopt, since
it builds upon the industry standard gnu tools. It's unique Data
Introspection, design exploration and debugging features make for more
rapid understanding of designs and the verification process. Vista
also offers advanced coding facilities, browsers, and a verification
toolset targeted for high-level SystemC transaction-level modeling
(TLM). Vista's SystemC Transaction Sequence Viewer(TM) (TSV) supports
effective debug of designs written at the transaction-level, with
minimal set-up. With the TSV, designers can automatically view and
debug complex communication protocols and system-level interfaces
between blocks. While other SystemC design environments require
time-consuming manual code instrumentation, Vista's TSV automatically
captures the interface method calling sequence and presents the
communication protocol transactions in an intuitive tabular format.
The unique debugging capabilities in Vista are possible because of its
built-in SystemC awareness and its in-depth understanding of SystemC
designs.
About Summit
Summit Design's industry-leading ESL and HDL solutions enable SOC
companies to deliver products that meet system-level performance and
power targets with dramatically reduced schedule risk. Summit's
products address engineering challenges met during the specification
and implementation design phases of complex hardware/software systems.
System Architect(TM) enables massive increases in design complexity
and performance by analyzing architectural tradeoffs to arrive at
optimized system specifications. Vista(TM) and Visual Elite(TM) ensure
swift, successful design modeling and implementation in SystemC,
Verilog, and VHDL. Top electronics companies worldwide, including
leaders in the wireless, automotive, and consumer electronics space,
have achieved dramatic reductions in design cycle time through their
use of Summit's products. Summit Design is headquartered in Los Altos,
Calif. with offices throughout the US, Europe, Japan, Israel, and ROA.
To learn more, please visit http://www.sd.com.
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Contact:
ThinkBold Corporate Communications
(For Summit Design, Inc.)
Francine Bacchini, 408-839-8153
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