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Poseidon Announces 'Standards Based' Support for Triton Tuner Simulation Platform
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 24, 2006—
The Electronic System Level (ESL) is the starting point
in a design flow that leads to today's complex processor based
systems. Abstract models of the hardware and software system
components are one of the most important products of ESL. Those models
must be useable by many people in the team including system's
engineers, hardware and software developers and verification engineers
and used for purposes ranging from analysis, and verification to
synthesis. That means an ESL flow must be based on standards. At this
year's Design Automation Conference, Poseidon's Triton Tuner will be
demonstrating the advances that have been made in the adoption and
integration of standards.
For software and un-partitioned code, the Triton Tuner environment
accepts descriptions written in ANSI C, the most popular programming
language in the industry and for hardware architecture and
implementation, SystemC models are used. These models communicate
using the SystemC Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) standard. The
architecture is initially defined using SPIRIT IP-XACT meta data which
allows architectures to be created and configured quickly. Triton's
integration with Mentor Graphics' Platform Express will be
demonstrated in the SPIRIT session on Monday evening, July 24th. In
addition, Poseidon will be showing in our booth, 3355, our integration
with Novas Debussy, the only simulation debug tool capable of
supporting the designer from ESL, through RTL and onto actual silicon.
Poseidon is committed to creating the most flexible and usable
simulation environment in the industry and believes that it is
critical to embrace a standards based approach. This enables the
Triton Tuner environment to interface to a wide range of tools in the
industry and become a core part of a complete flow.
Poseidon's Triton tool suite is comprised of two tools, Tuner and
Builder, which provides the designer with the ability to fully develop
an efficient processor-based architecture. Poseidon's Tuner tool
offers hardware and software architects an easy to use SystemC
simulation environment to quickly analyze and optimize complex
software, architectures and systems. With the Builder Tool, time
critical algorithms can also be partitioned and migrated from software
into dedicated hardware solutions with an efficient hardware
accelerator. Through hardware acceleration significant increases in
performance can be obtained along with reductions in power, die size
and development time. With Poseidon Triton tools designers can
tradeoff Performance, power and cost. These tools support ARM,
PowerPC, MicroBlaze and Nios II architectures on ASIC and FPGA
platforms. The solutions are optimized for video, VoIP, audio,
imaging, wireless, networking, and security devices.
About Poseidon Design Systems
Poseidon is an Electronic Design Automation and Service company
with offices in Atlanta, GA, San Jose, CA, and Bangalore, India.
Founded in July 2002, Poseidon provides products and services for
modeling and designing processor-based SoCs. Poseidon's Electronic
System Level tools allow users to rapidly analyze, optimize and
accelerate a complete SoC system. For additional information about
Poseidon Design Systems, visit www.poseidon-systems.com.
For more information please contact Farzad Zarrinfar at:
Phone: 925-292-1670
Email: Farzad.Zarrinfar@poseidon-systems.com
Note: All trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
Contact:
Poseidon Design Systems, Inc.
Farzad Zarrinfar, 925-292-1670
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