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[July 03, 2009]

Forte Ships Latest Version of Cynthesizer SystemC High-Level Synthesis

Jul 03, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- Forte Design Systems, a provider of High-Level Synthesis software, announced it has began volume shipments of the latest version of Cynthesizer, SystemC synthesis software for hardware and electronic system level (ESL) design.

Anchoring this version of Cynthesizer are several features, including SystemC 2.2 support, tools for partitioning complex hierarchical systems, automated generation of complex interfaces, control-based design support and memory support upgrades.

"Solutions based on ANSI-C are inherently limited in their ability to model complex concurrent hardware architectures including interfaces, control and datapath blocks," remarks Sean Dart, Forte's president and CEO. "Cynthesizer includes new automated interface generation and design partitioning that leverages the modeling power of SystemC to move it further ahead in the breadth of designs styles covered and quality of results achieved." Cynthesizer allows designers to choose either SystemC 2.1v1 or the latest SystemC 2.2 IEEE standard. SystemC also provides a standardized means of representing hardware concepts not available in pure ANSI-C solutions such as concurrency, bit accuracy, timing and hierarchy.

Cynthesizer also includes automated design partitioning for behavioral design specifications expressed serially to be split into multiple parallel blocks. Its partitioning feature divides the design into multiple parts while automatically determining data dependency between blocks and creating an appropriate interface. This process streamlines the design exploration and creation process by utilizing pre-verified interface templates reducing overall time and risk. It also offers transaction logging through an integration with Springsoft's Verdi Automated Debug System.

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