October 01,
2007 | Bill Neifert - Look for the Models for the Virtual Platforms - Bill Neifert tab in the right hand navigation. |
September 01,
2007 | Rick Lucier — I’m often left flat-footed at cocktail parties when asked to explain what industry I work in. When this happens –– and it often does –– I pull my cell phone out of my pocket and say I work in an industry that enables the creation of these devices. |
September 01,
2007 | "John Willoughby — Like the Dr. Seuss story about plain-bellied Sneetches who all wanted to become star-bellied Sneetches, so too are EDA vendors all claiming now to be "ESL vendors" despite how much they often need to stretch the definition." |
September 01,
2007 | "Scott Seaton — While an acquisition is a major win for two vendor suppliers, the needs of a customer or project team is often overlooked, leaving them without the support and service. The solution is..." |
September 01,
2007 | "Bill Neifert — "Carbon allows us to rapidly identify, fix and verify fixes in our software and makes me confident that we'll have software up and running the first day we get our chips back from fab."" |
August 01,
2007 | The Carbon program is aimed at Tenison users who may be concerned about their tool flow in the wake of Tenison’s acquisition by ARC International in June. |
July 01,
2007 | "Gabe Moretti — Following the acquisition of Tenison by ARC International, Carbon Design Systems has announced a program to offer customers of Tenison Design Automation's VTOC products an easy migration path to Carbon's family of model generation solutions." |
July 01,
2007 | "Carbon Design Systems, Inc. has announced a program to offer customers of Tenison Design Automation's VTOC products an easy migration path to Carbon's family of model generation solutions. The Tenison Migration Program is a limited-time offer that includes free use of Carbon's tools, custom integration software, and tailored services to speed the migration in exchange for signing on with Carbon. The program runs now through October 31, 2007." |
May 01,
2007 | "Richard Goering — Carbon Design Systems Inc. will show new modeling technology for its Virtual System Prototype environment, which abstracts RTL models into fast, cycle-accurate virtual prototypes. The On- Demand technology speeds firmware debugging because OnDemand models can automatically disable themselves when they're inactive, Carbon says." |
March 01,
2007 | "SAN FRANCISCO — Electronic system-level (ESL) hardware model vendor Carbon Design Systems said Thursday (March 1) that its models are now "plug-and-play" compatible with the Platform Architect design environment from ESL vendor CoWare Inc. Carbon (Waltham, Mass.) said its openly available SystemC modeling library was used to integrate Carbon's models into CoWare's simulation environment and provide full model visibility to the Platform Architect suite of analysis and debugging tools." |
February 01,
2007 | "It has been increasingly obvious that the design methodologies that were used to build successful ASIC programs are going to be insufficient for the next generation of complex systems and system-on-chip designs. ESL solutions have attempted to solve this problem by abstracting the description of a system and the associated components. ESL methodologies have been adopted and used successfully on hundreds of designs. However, this experience has exposed the fundamental weakness of this approach. An ESL system description is only as accurate as the models it incorporates. There is typically no link between the models used in an ESL system description and the actual implementation of that system in silicon." |
July 22,
2006 | "SAN FRANCISCO — According to Carbon (Waltham, Mass.), because ESL simulation environments typically contain models at different levels of abstraction, accuracy and performance, developers validating software on a system model must iterate through all previously validated code to add functionality or debug problems that may have occurred hours into a simulation.The company said its forthcoming Replay feature enables rapid software iterations through validated code and interactive software debug while maintaining cycle-accuracy, removing this performance barrier to incorporating RTL into a heterogeneous modeling environment." |
June 28,
2006 | "ESL environments have been held back from wide adoption due to the lack of connection with hardware description languages—Verilog® and VHDL. Legacy IP, 3rd party IP, and new design RTL have sat on the bench. Without a way to import a fast model derived from RTL, users are faced with the daunting task of creating idealized models or waiting until late in the design cycle for a hardware-based solution—FPGAs, emulation, or silicon. " |
June 28,
2006 | "The advent of extreme fine line processes at 130nm or less presents many challenges. On the back end, optimizing a design to manage physical effects such as power, heat, and timing is more daunting than ever. At the front end, implementing a system-on-chip's (SoC) behavior and features is becoming equally difficult. The early exploration of system architectures is now a critical part of the SoC design process that ensures hardware and software engineers have a well-specified and validated context for their work. Furthermore, the increasing adoption of intellectual property (IP) from multiple sources — legacy, third-party, and newly created — means that systems integration is becoming as significant as the implementation of new design components." |
December 20,
2005 | "SAN FRANCISCO — Carbon Design Systems has added PCI, PCI-X, USB 2.0 Host an" |