“Cycle accurate simulation models and SoC virtual prototyping play an increasingly important role in system design by simulating hardware / software system behavior and shortening design cycles for SoCs. Virtual models of our CEVA DSPs integrated with Carbon SoC Designer Plus enable complete system validation of hardware and software before silicon is available, delivering value through the entire design cycle.”
- Eran Briman, Vice President of Marketing at CEVA
“We are pleased to introduce Carbon Design System’s SoC Designer Plus to the TMSC Reference Flow 12, a critical component of our 28nm design infrastructure. The Carbon tools will help our customers make the correct power and performance trade-offs, as well as develop and validate their software, early in the design flow, reducing design cycle time and creating more confidence before going into fabrication.”
- Suk Lee, director of Design Infrastructure Marketing at TSMC
Customers like Xilinx have used Carbon’s cycle-accurate models and SoC Designer virtual platform to analyze thousands of AXI interconnect scenarios to optimize the performance of their dual-core Cortex™-A9 MPCore™-based Zynq™-7000 Extensible Processing Platform for use in a broad range of applications.
“Our integrations of complex System-On-Chip ICs that include the AMBA protocol and other protocols, exploit TLM based SystemC virtual platforms. We welcome protocol owners, such as ARM, teaming with partners to define SystemC representation of their protocols. Model suppliers adopting a unique and TLM-based cycle-accurate (CA) definition of the AMBA protocol, is making it easier for IP users to integrate, where needed, various CA models for AMBA, such as , Carbonized‟ IP models, in higher-level simulation platforms such as ST’s TLM_TAC virtual SoC. Enabling the communication of such CA model with higher-level TLM AT or TLM LT models in this virtual SoC, is facilitated by the common base TLM standard.”
- Alain Clouard, Manager of System Platforms Group, Home Entertainment and Displays, STMicroelectronics
Mediatek engineers have successfully adopted Carbon’s system-level modeling to speedup electronic system level (ESL) platform buildup. During this time, architects adopted Carbon’s solutions for performance analysis and optimization of various subsystems in their advanced SoC designs. It confirms Carbon’s conviction that pre-built and pre-tested models of third-party IP and model generation tools are efficient to implement virtual platforms for architectural analysis/optimization and pre-silicon system validation.
“We are seeing an increasing demand for high performance models in the industry.The integration of the Fast Models portfolio with Carbon’s SoC Designer enables our customers to choose the most suitable model for each stage of their development all within the same development environment.”
- Mark Onions, director of marketing, System Design Division, ARM
“We see the (Carbon) partnership as critical to providing the implementation-accurate models of ARM that the industry needs to fully explore the value ARM processors and fabric technology deliver in our partners’ complex SoC designs.”
- Eric Schorn, Vice President of Marketing, Processor Division, ARM
“Carbon’s SOC Designer is a valuable platform for our customers to model their SOC designs before committing them to silicon. It’s particularly useful for modeling large designs with multiple cores doing control and dataplane processing.”
- Steve Roddy, Tensilica’s Vice President of Marketing and Business Development
”Memory controllers play a vital role in the system throughput of any advanced SoC. By making accurate models of our DDR controllers available on Carbon IP Exchange, we are enabling our customers to make critical performance tradeoffs early in the design cycle, accelerating predictable System Realization.”
- Michał Siwiński, Group Director of System & SoC Realization Product Management at Cadence
“Security processors play a vital role in many leading SoC applications. Carbon IP Exchange enables us to market and distribute models of our security IP to a broader range of customers for evaluation and early firmware development.”
- Rick White, Elliptic Technologies’ CEO
“Tensilica demonstrates its commitment to ESL design by offering the widest range of modeling options among providers of processor IP. By making 100% accurate models of our bridge components available on Carbon IP Exchange, we are giving our customers the ability to make accurate decisions even earlier in the design cycle.”
- Steve Roddy, Vice President of marketing and business development, Tensilica
“By making our ZSP core models available to our customers using Carbon IP Exchange, we are enabling virtual prototyping of ZSP-based SoC platforms for pre-RTL software development and early system analysis and architecture exploration.”
- Prasad Kalluri, corporate vice president of engineering at VeriSilicon
“Vivante’s GC Series GPU technology is powering the next generation of both ultra-high performance and cost-driven SoCs powering upcoming mobile phones/tablets, home entertainment and other mass market consumer electronic products. Carbon models are enabling many of Vivante’s licensees to model their SoC systems. We are delighted to partner with Carbon to serve the requirements of our mutual customers for system modeling.”
- Wei-Jin Dai, CEO and president at Vivante