CoWare is the global leader for ESL 2.0 solutions. CoWare's customers include 20 of the top 20 semiconductor companies and 14 of the top 20 electronics companies. CoWare also works with the world's leading IP companies as well as leading research and educational institution worldwide.
NXP
"NXP is a world leader in developing advanced digital products - from mobile phones, portable media players, TVs and set-top boxes, to identification applications, cars and a wide range of other electronic devices," said Rene Penning de Vries, senior vice president and chief technology officer, NXP Semiconductors. "We have used ESL technologies inside NXP for years and have seen clear benefits. We determined now is the time to standardize on a commercial solution. The strategic agreement between NXP and CoWare underscores the shared vision that the deployment of ESL 2.0 technologies will enable NXP to focus on innovation and deliver better products faster.""
YAMAHA
"Using CoWare ESL technologies, we were able to increase by 30% the performance
of our production networking SoC while reducing our time to market by more than
55%," said Mitsuhiro Kurata, Director LSI Development Department, Semiconductor
Division, YAMAHA Corporation. "We are excited about the new CoWare release
capabilities. It will make it even easier to deploy ESL technologies to other
production design teams."
Fujitsu Limited
"Fujitsu believes that an ESL design methodology is key
to designing next-generation SoCs because it enables a hardware-software
concurrent design flow," said Takashi Hasegawa, director, ESL & Verification
Department, Electronic Devices Business Group of Fujitsu Limited. "Using
standards such as OSCI TLM2 for ESL design allows for much-needed
industry-wide interoperability. We found that CoWare's Virtual
Platform Product Family fits into our vision and goals."
Motorola
"Working with CoWare and their Virtual Platform has helped
us reduce some of the challenges associated with software simulation," said
Al Von Ruff, Manager, Simulation Technology, Motorola Mobile Devices. "By
leveraging a system-level, standards-based approach, we can enjoy
highly accurate models and early availability, which can translate
into more cost savings and faster time-to-market."
OKI
"CoWare Processor Designer enables us to quickly create our own custom DSP designs
with its software development tools, RTL, C-compiler, and instruction set simulator
generated from a single, high-level specification," said Kazuhiko Maki, general
manager, Oki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. "This is very efficient for us as we
can add the custom DSP model to the hardware platform created by CoWare Platform
Architect and CoWare Model Designer. This saves processor hardware design time
and software tool development time. And, the CoWare KK development team provides
excellent support for us."
STMicroelectronics
"This process is handled securely by the CORXpert software and frees up the engineers so that they can concentrate
on optimizing cores rather than being trapped in the manual operation that was previously required," said Philippe Galliard,
Software Tools Development Manager, Software Tools and Services Division, STMicroelectronics. "By taking advantage of the shorter
development cycles, ST engineers can target the entire application range, from dedicated controls to complex applications
in the multi-media domain, with cost, performance, and power optimized custom processors."
Toshiba
Mr. Takashi Yoshimori, Technology Executive of SoC Design at Toshiba Semiconductor Company said, "With Toshiba's
MeP, the customer gets a highly-configurable, multi-processor platform, which helps them design highly-differentiated products.
The advanced MeP IP library will bring high-speed models to customers that enable early software development and optimization
as well as easy customization of the hardware."
"We are using CoWare's SystemC solution to analyze the system performance of our next-generation, multi-core digital TV SoCs,"
stated Dr. Naoyuki Kai, chief specialist, Visual System Digital LSI Design Group, Toshiba Semiconductor, Kawasaki, Japan. "Determining
the right architecture for a multi-core SoC design, where thousands of interconnect and memory subsystem variations are possible, cannot
be done using RTL. We are committed to SystemC transaction-level design and ESL for architectural exploration and performance analysis,
and will use CoWare going forward."
"Semiconductor companies must change their product development strategies to successfully shift focus from individual products
to product platforms," said Nobu Matsumoto, chief specialist, Digital Media SoC Dept. Center for Semiconductor Research & Development,
Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor Company. "For the multi-core MeP digital media platforms at Toshiba, transaction-level model
interoperability and design reuse based on standards is a cornerstone of this strategy. SCML methods, combined with fast MeP processor
models, enable our system architects to successfully deliver platform models earlier, and at the right level of abstraction, to both
software and hardware teams."
IBM
"Design at the electronic system-level is essential to take optimum advantage of the IBM PowerPC 440's and IBM Core Connect's
powerful capabilities in a product platform," said Richard Busch, director of ASIC Products, Power Architecture Licensing and
Cores, IBM Global Engineering Solutions. "We're excited that our collaboration with CoWare provides our mutual customers with
the right tools to help make these architectural decisions and start software development earlier in the design cycle."
Thales
"Thales uses CoWare's SystemC solution to develop transaction-level platform models for our digital radio SoCs,"
said Bernard Candaele, department head for SoC, IC, and EDA, Thales, Colombes Paris. "CoWare's standards-based approach with
SCML enabled us to quickly create the peripheral models we needed to begin early driver development, while protecting this
investment for efficient reuse throughout the design process."
Kawasaki Microelectronics
"We needed to create an efficient methodology to optimize the architecture for our SoC ASICs based on the MIPS processor and
Sonics interconnects," said Kyoichi Kissei, executive vice-president, Kawasaki Microelectronics, Ltd. "CoWare Platform Architect
was the only ESL design tool on the market that provided SystemC models for those interconnects in addition to an extremely
powerful analysis capability. It was an easy decision to go with CoWare."
ElementCXI
"Our Elemental Computing product consists of a unique set of processing elements, and a sophisticated interconnect capable of
executing complex signal processing and general purpose applications," stated Jaime Cummins, CEO, ElementCXI. "CoWare
is leading the way with the critical set of ESL technologies and the vision
to integrate them in a meaningful way for our product platform development.
We look forward to rapidly deploying this solution to embedded application
developers in the multimedia and automotive markets that we will serve with
our first silicon."
Radio Frame Networks
"CoWare's Consulting Services team was very responsive to our needs. They have a "can do" attitude that gave us the confidence the project would be successful right from the start, " said James Clough, platform software developer at RadioFrame Networks. "Not only was it completed to our satisfaction but their professional approach made the process a very pleasant experience for our team."
IMEC
"With Arteris, CoWare and Mentor joining our M4 program, IMEC is creating an open research platform where leading companies
developing embedded systems or services for ambient intelligence jointly tackle the research challenges by tight research
cooperation," says Rudy Lauwereins, Vice President Design Technology for Integrated Information and Communication Systems at IMEC.
"By bringing together the different companies in the value chain we will accelerate innovations in designing wireless embedded systems."
STARC
"We are now developing the modeling guideline as well as the efficient design methodology which will enable Japanese semiconductor
companies to reuse SoC platform models at the system level," said Haruhisa Kashiwagi, senior manager, System Level Design Group,
Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC). "We are very excited to see the continuous evolution of standards around
transaction-level modeling and appreciate CoWare's open approach."
AXE
"CoWare Virtual Platform provides a stable and powerful environment for porting operating systems that enables us to
deliver virtual platform-based software development solutions to our customers," said Shozo Takeoka, CEO, AXE.
"In addition, the CoWare solution is the only one that provides a direct architecture link that enables software-driven architecture
development and ensures the best hardware and software fit for our customers."
BeatCraft
"The software development tools provided by CoWare resulted in a huge time saving for our software developers," said Masashi Takemoto, CEO, BeatCraft. "And, the knowledge we gained integrating our Jakar Framework with CoWare's Virtual Platform enables us to more quickly provide a customer solution that is better and more reliable."
