CoWare and iDeaWorks Deliver IP Reference Models for Platform-driven ESL Design; Multi-year OEM Agreement Covers H.264 and Other Complex Algorithm Reference Models for CoWare Signal Processing Designer
MUNICH, Germany—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 6, 2006—
CoWare(R) Inc., the leading supplier of electronic
system-level (ESL) software and services and iDeaWorks Technologies,
Inc., the leading algorithm analyst and developer for parallelized
intellectual property (IP) solutions, announced a multi-year OEM
agreement in which iDeaWorks delivers CoWare IP reference models
integrated into CoWare Signal Processing Designer (formerly known as
SPW).
"As platform-driven design becomes the mantra in our industry, we
are looking to provide more and more platform components in a
ready-to-use fashion to accelerate the platform design process for our
customers," said AK Kalekos, vice president marketing and business
development, CoWare. "We are glad to augment our own wireless
standards reference models with expertise in multi-media standards
such as H.264 coming from the iDeaWorks designers."
"CoWare ESL solutions lead the way by addressing the needs of SoC
design teams for convergence applications," said Robert Barker, vice
president business development, iDeaWorks. "Our go-to-market strategy
in the IP space leverages CoWare's strong technology presence in major
system and semiconductor companies around the globe."
Reference Source Code - A Designer's Nightmare
Today, designers are facing a significant challenge for design and
verification of new applications such as H.264. If they have not been
involved in the actual standardization work, it is very difficult to
understand and implement starting with 35,000 lines of H.264 reference
source code, which they can download from the standards committee
website.
Structured Modeling: Getting to an Implementable Specification
Faster
Implementation teams concerned with hardware and software
partitioning and detailed design typically think in block diagrams of
larger sub-functions. Each of those sub-functions may have specific
system-level parameters (such as the picture size) or lower-level
parameters for the implementation, which need to be managed in a
transparent way. Finally, the designers need to execute the entire
system effectively with no loss in simulation efficiency compared with
the reference source code. CoWare Signal Processing Designer provides
the data flow modeling, parameterization, and simulation capabilities
for very complex signal processing applications.
CoWare Modeling, Infrastructure, and Simulation Speed
When design teams decide how to capture their IP, they are making
a very long-term commitment. As an example, typical 2G algorithmic
models that have been developed 15 or more years ago are still being
used today as a golden, functional reference. For future advanced
wireless systems and their underlying different user applications,
such as multi-media, the design community is facing the same decision
criteria for 2G, and they also need to be prepared to re-use the
captured models with a much larger variety of different
multi-processor platforms. With H.264, HSDPA, and other reference
models, CoWare adds to the designer's own modeling effort a
significant number of off-the-shelf, standards-based models, which the
designer can leverage to speed up the design process. CoWare Signal
Processing Designer is delivering the core tool strengths for
successful algorithm design and is embedded into the entire CoWare
Platform-driven ESL design solution.
Pricing & Availability
CoWare Signal Processing Designer H.264 Libraries are available
today. For pricing information, contact the local CoWare sales
representative. For more information on CoWare Signal Processing
Designer and CoWare's other products, visit www.coware.com.
About iDeaWorks
iDeaWorks offers state-of-the-art algorithm development and
analysis algorithmic electronic system-level (AESL) design tools.
Utilizing broad domain expertise, iDeaWorks delivers optimized,
architectural neutral, parallelized reference standards for use as
reference tools during IC development. By leveraging the expertise at
iDeaWorks, customers can efficiently implement complex standards
without a significant in-house investment in domain-specific
resources. Their solutions are standards-based and encapsulated in
leading ESL tool environments or sold as standalone products.
iDeaWorks is located in Milpitas, Calif. U.S.A., and has offices in
Secunderabad, India.
About CoWare
CoWare is the leading supplier of electronic system-level (ESL)
design software and services. CoWare offers a comprehensive set of
platform-driven ESL products that enable SoC developers to
"differentiate by design" through the creation of system IP including
embedded processors, on-chip buses, and DSP algorithms; the
architecture of optimized SoC platforms; and hardware/software
co-design. The company's solutions are based on open industry
standards including SystemC. CoWare's customers are major systems,
semiconductor, and IP companies in the market where consumer
electronics, computing, and communications converge. CoWare's
corporate investors include ARM Ltd. ((LSE: ARM); (Nasdaq: ARMHY)),
Cadence Design Systems (Nasdaq: CDNS), STMicroelectronics (NYSE: STM),
and Sony Corporation (NYSE: SNE). CoWare is headquartered in San Jose,
Calif., and has offices around the world. For more information about
CoWare and its products and services visit http://www.coware.com.
CoWare is a registered trademark of CoWare, Inc. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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