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Summit Design's Award Winning Vista IDE Enhances Its SystemC Debugging Capabilities With IEEE 1666 and Windows Platform Support; Vista 2006.1 Provides Easier Integration With Third-Party Tools and SystemC Design Environments
LOS ALTOS, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 18, 2006—
Summit Design, Inc., a leading provider of electronic
system-level (ESL) and hardware description language (HDL) design
solutions, today announced important enhancements to its award winning
Vista(TM) integrated design environment (IDE) for SystemC. Vista
2006.1 adds support for IEEE 1666, the standard for SystemC from the
Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI), and extends platform support to
include the Microsoft(R) Windows(R) operating system (OS). Vista
2006.1 also provides easier integration with third-party tools and
SystemC design environments.
"Vista's SystemC design, debug, and verification environment
provides powerful capabilities with a consistent interface across
multiple design environments and tools," said Emil Girczyc, president
and CEO of Summit Design, Inc. "By supporting the IEEE 1666 standard,
while maintaining support for SystemC 2.0.1, 2.1, and 2.1V1, our
customers can count on Vista's debugging capabilities regardless of
the version of the SystemC being used."
By adding timely support for the new IEEE 1666 standard, utilizing
the SystemC open source proof-of-concept library announced today by
OSCI, Summit is aiding in the adoption and proliferation of new ESL
standards. Summit simplifies integration of IP from various sources by
providing support for multiple versions of SystemC, such as IEEE 1666
and SystemC 2.1, and reduces the integration effort design teams
typically need to undertake.
Vista 2006.1 increases the ease of integration with existing tool
flows and infrastructures. With support for third-party lint and
synthesis tools already in place, the new interfaces in Vista 2006.1
expand support to include several major commercial simulation
environments, allowing designers to use Vista's best-in-class
debugging capabilities with a range of simulators.
Vista 2006.1 also gives designers the option of integrating into
an Eclipse-based design environment, or to continue to use Vista's IDE
project features stand alone. The Eclipse platform is an open-source
development environment that provides a common framework for
integration and management of software tools from multiple vendors.
The optional integration permitted by Vista 2006.1 enables customers
to use Vista for SystemC debug and simulation while remaining in their
Eclipse environment for source control and editing.
"Customers requested this integration so that they could use
Vista's debugging capabilities in the environment of their choice,"
continued Girczyc. "Summit recognizes the value of supporting
standards and integrating with the best solutions from multiple
sources. Vista is designed to easily integrate with other
technologies. The additional capabilities in Vista 2006.1 increase
Summit's support of standards and open-source solutions for SystemC
design."
Other additions to Vista's debugging capabilities include enhanced
transaction-level model (TLM) viewing with a transaction sequence
viewer and improved support for local variable tracing in Vista's
waveform and process status window.
Availability
Vista 2006.1 is currently available to select Beta customers,
while the production version will be available in Q3 of 2006. Vista
2006.1 includes TLM support, the Eclipse interface, and Windows
support, and will be provided to all current Vista customers. Vista is
currently offered on the Linux and Solaris platforms.
Third-party simulation interface options are in use today at a
number of beta-site locations world wide. These interfaces will be
available in production to all customers in Q3. These interface
options are not required for use with the OSCI proof of concept
SystemC simulator.
Demonstrations of Vista will be provided on July 24-27, 2006, in
Summit Design's booth #1028 at the Design Automation Conference (DAC)
located within the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco,
California.
To learn more about Summit's support for IEEE 1666 and the new
capabilities in this version of the standard, register to attend the
mini-seminar hosted jointly by Doulos and Summit Design, "New features
of IEEE 1666/SystemC 2.2". The mini-seminar is being held at the
Moscone Convention Center, in booth #1028 on Tuesday, July 25, 11:00 -
12:00 p.m. Registration is available at
http://www.sd.com/news_events/events.
About Summit's Vista IDE
Vista(TM) is an integrated design environment (IDE) for SystemC
that combines both hardware and software concepts to speed design and
debug of SystemC applications. In June of 2006, Vista was awarded the
prestigious Semiconductor Industry News' LSI of the Year Award in the
Design Environment/Development Tools category. Easy to adopt, Vista
builds upon the industry standard gnu tools. Its unique data
introspection, design exploration and unique debugging features enable
more rapid understanding of designs and speed 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 no set-up required. The TSV enables designers to 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.
Panorama(TM) allows designers to perform real-time application
emulation of both the hardware and software portions of an embedded
SoC, before core and IP selections are finalized. Vista(TM) is an
integrated development environment (IDE) for SystemC that combines
both hardware and software concepts to speed design and debug of
SystemC and TLM applications. Visual Elite(TM) is a state-of-the-art
design, integration and verification platform which enables designers
to intuitively capture and validate their designs using high-level
design techniques and languages. 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, California, with offices throughout the
US, Europe, Japan, Israel, and ROA. To learn more, please visit
http://www.sd.com.
All trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned in this news
release are the intellectual property of their respective owners.
Contact:
For Summit Design, Inc.
Francine Bacchini, 408-839-8153
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