EDN

DESIGN TOOLS: Synthesis tool adds support for SystemC

Santa Cruz, Calif. — When Mentor Graphics Corp. introduced its Catapult C synthesis tool last year, the company eschewed SystemC in favor of ANSI C++. This week, however, Mentor will announce that ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Logic Synthesis Basics For FPGA

In the early days of digital design, all circuits were designed manually. You would draw K-map, optimize the logic and draw the schematics. If you remember, we all ...
EDN

Tool promises parallelizing synthesis

Santa Cruz, Calif. – Touting a new approach to parallelizing, high-level synthesis, the Center for Embedded Computer Systems at the University of California at Irvine has released its Spark synthesis ...
Design-Reuse

Mentor Graphics Introduces Catapult SL, the First High-Level Synthesis Tool to Create High-Performance Subsystems from Pure ANSI C++

WILSONVILLE, Ore., June 12, 2006 – Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) today expanded the Catapult® product line with Catapult SL (System Level), the first high-level synthesis tool to ...
Design-Reuse

Software synthesis for embedded systems

Synthetic operating systems might mean never having to port software again. Software can be automatically generated-synthesized-to meet the demands of a changing system. For decades hardware design ...