ESL Synthesis Using
Esterel Studio and the IP-XACT
Specifications from The SPIRIT Consortium
MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, and ELANCOURT, France, July 21, 2006. Esterel Technologies announced today that it will demonstrate for the first time its ESL to implementation design flow supporting the IP-XACT ™ specification from The SPIRIT Consortium™ at the general meeting for The Consortium to be held at the 2006 Design Automation Conference , Monday, July 24, 6-8 pm, San Francisco Marriott Hotel Salons 1,2,3.
In April 2006, Esterel Technologies joined The SPIRIT Consortium as a
reviewing member to access the IP-XACT specification and upgrade its Esterel
Studio product to support the new specifications for improved multi-vendor
IP design and tool flow integration. Esterel Studio generates IP-XACT
enabled meta-data so that the SystemC, VHDL and Verilog generated from
Esterel Studio can now be packaged with an IP exchange format to enable
easily import into other IP-XACT enabled ESL and RTL level tools.
“Esterel Studio provides an automated ESL to RTL flow starting from a
formally verified IP executable specification.“, says Günther SIEGEL,
Esterel Studio CTO. “The demonstration we will show at The SPIRIT
Consortium general meeting at DAC illustrates the benefits of this
methodology by generating SystemC models with IP-XACT descriptions for
ARM RealView® SoC Designer and VHDL/Verilog designs with IP-XACT
descriptions for Synopsys coreAssembler. Smooth interoperability
between three partner tools supporting the IP - XACT standard proves
the effectiveness of The SPIRIT Consortium Specifications.”
Esterel Studio is the leading front-end design and verification suite for
control-intensive hardware IP such as power management controllers,
communication protocols, bus interfaces, peripheral controllers, I/O
subsystems, cache controllers, arbiters, and processor core
peripherals. Esterel Studio includes an editor, a simulator, supports
assertions and formal verification.
Eric Bantegnie, CEO of Esterel Technologies comments: "We believe that the
quick pace of adoption of the SPIRIT Consortium IP-XACT standard will
provide companies designing SoCs with a high degree of flexibility and time
to market advantage over manual IP integration methods,”. “The integration
of Esterel Studio’s configurable IP design flow with IP integration tools
using the IP-XACT specifications combines the best of the state of the
art".
About Esterel
Technologies
Esterel Technologies is design tools specialist of high performance and
safety-critical embedded systems.
SCADE Suite™ is the market leading model-based development
environment dedicated to safety-critical embedded software: DO-178B
qualified up to level A for Military and Aerospace Industries, and IEC 61508
certified for all SIL levels by TÜV for Rail Transportation, Heavy
Equipment, and Energy.
SCADE Drive™ is the market leading model-based development
environment dedicated to safety-critical automotive embedded software: IEC
61508 certified for all SIL levels by TÜV and MISRA C compliant.
Esterel Studio™ is the market leading front-end design and
verification suite for control-intensive hardware IP.
Esterel Technologies is a privately held company with headquarters in
Elancourt, France and Mountain View, California, USA, and with direct sales
offices in Germany, the United Kingdom, and China.
Contact:
Jean-François Baggioni, Esterel Technologies
Phone: +33 (0)4 92 02 40 41
Email: mailto:Jean-Francois.Baggioni@esterel-technologies.com