"Standards-based interoperability is a key requirement for our mutual customers. CoWare’s participation in Synopsys System-Level Catalyst program, enables our joint customers to execute the Synopsys DesignWare System-Level Library in our production proven CoWare Platform Architect and CoWare Virtual Platform." - Tom De Schutter, Marketing Manager, IP Models at CoWare

Product Description

Highlights:

• Rapid capture and configuration of hierarchical SoC platforms
• Superior architecture and performance analysis for SystemC
• Rapid exploration of complex interconnect and memory architectures
• Advanced simulation, debug, and analysis for software development
• Automated integration of RTL blocks into the TLM system
• Automated creation of highly reusable, user-defined SystemC peripheral components and unit tests
• Standards-based SystemC TLM modeling guidelines and examples using SCML
• Comprehensive SystemC IP model availability with the CoWare Model Library, CoWare Processor Designer, and Carbon Model Studio Support

For Platform-driven Design, CoWare Platform Architect is the industry's most productive SystemC-based graphical environment for capturing the entire product platform and the dash board for initiating the platform analysis functions. Platform Architect's companion product, CoWare Model Designer, offers a stand-alone subset of these features to provide the industry's most productive SystemC-aware modeling, simulation, and debug environment for capturing complex IP blocks and verifying them at the transaction-level.

CoWare Virtual Platform
CoWare Virtual Platform are used for software development, integration and test, post-silicon validation and as a supply chain enablement capability

Highlights:

• Faster edit-compile-debug cycles through more controllability, more observability and more determinism
• Near or faster than real time execution
• Non intrusive, multicore debugging and analysis environment
• Integration of existing commercial, open source or proprietary software development tools
• Integration of external applications such as realistic user interfaces and environment models
• Immediate availability worldwide--you can send a virtual hardware platform as an e-mail attachment

Companies designing and developing processor centric, software intensive products are increasingly demanding that their software development, integration and test teams as well as post silicon validation teams shorten development cycles, increase product quality and reduce costs. To address these challenges, development teams need to address existing limitations of the development process such as the availability of the physical hardware, the limited controllability, visibility and determinism offered by the physical hardware and the complexity and difficulty of accessing product test benches.

CoWare Virtual Platforms are fast, executable simulations of the device hardware and the environment it evolves in. They address the limitations of physical hardware software execution environment currently available to development teams.

Interoperability Description and Customer Benefit
TLM-2.0 interoperability enables joint CoWare – Synopsys customers to import Synopsys DesignWare Core Models and use them in CoWare Platform Architect to build a SystemC virtual platform for software development.