Synfora Acquires Esterel Studio for SoC Designs; Complementary to PICO Platform

Algorithmic synthesis tools provider Synfora, Inc. has purchased Esterel Studio, a tool suite developed by Esterel EDA Technologies, embedded systems tool designer. Neither company disclosed the acquisition price.

 

The acquired tool is used for the design of control logic and bus systems for three top 10 semiconductor companies in system-on-chip designs.

 

In speaking about the acquisition, Synfora STO Vinod Kathail said that the Esterel Studio tool will be complementary to the company’s existing PICO algorithmic synthesis platform, which creates application accelerators from an untimed C algorithm.

 

“This step is part of our long-term vision of providing integrated solutions for application accelerators and more control oriented IP,” said Kathail in a press release statement.

 

Synfora’s PICO platform is used throughout various industries, including broadband wireless silicon solutions provider Wavesat, Inc. utilizing the platform to design a key IP block for the next generation 4G wireless chip.

 

Wavesat’s CEO Raj Singh said Synfora’s PICO platform was critical to the company’s design of the Channel Interleaver for the LTE (News - Alert) standard. “PICO [was able] to deliver verified RTL for complex IPs with high quality of results and in a short period of time, allowing us to meet our stringent timelines,” said Singh, “we plan to use the PICO platform for future products.”

 

Going forward, companies will use Esterel Studio as a design tool to create control-intensive silicon IP blocks and reactive systems. With the ability to support from design to verification and supports textual or graphical design of large state machines with arbitrary embedded data path, animated simulation and debugging, Esterel is an helpful tool from start to finish.

 

In conjunction with the PICO platform, this will provide Synfora customers with an integrated design environment for the development of both control-intensive and algorithmic-intensive blocks.

 

TMC contacted Synfora for additional comment, but the company could not be immediately reached.