News from Carbon
Introducing Carbon OnDemand for Accelerated Firmware Debugging
The latest product from Carbon — Carbon OnDemand — was announced in June at the Design Automation Conference and accelerates debug of systems containing Carbon Models while maintaining cycle accuracy. Carbon OnDemand automates a formerly manual coding process.
Carbon Models with OnDemand detect model inactivity and disable themselves until needed. Disabled Carbon Models have minimal impact on system performance and allow software developers to debug problems at Instruction Set Simulator (ISS) speeds.
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Tom Rathje Named Vice President of Engineering, Josh Marantz Becomes Vice President of R&D
We’re pleased to announce that Tom Rathje has joined the Carbon team as vice president of engineering and will manage Carbon’s product development team.
Josh Marantz, who ably served as VP of engineering for many years, has moved to the role of vice president of research and development to focus on new technology development. Stay tuned for you’ll soon hear more from Josh and his team.
Tom is no stranger to EDA. He served as program manager for customer services at Quickturn Design Automation, acquired by Cadence Design Systems Inc. He was vice president of product development at Chrysalis Symbolic Design, acquired by Avant! and now part of Synopsys Inc., and later became general manager of logic products at Avant!.
Prior to joining Carbon, Rathje was vice president of engineering for Timelab Corporation.
Tom would enjoy hearing from you. His email is: trathje@carbondesignsystems.com
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Customer News: Carbon Enables AMCC Cycle-Accurate Simulator
Model Generation Technology Ideal for Memory Design
The recent announcement from Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) of its Cycle Accurate Simulator (CAS) for the nP3705 packet processor was welcome news for Carbon customers. This platform-level simulator utilizes Carbon’s model generator to provide a cycle-accurate simulation of the nP3705 subsystem for Reduced Latency (RLDRAM) and Quad Data Rate (QDR) external memories, along with GE and FE interfaces. The nP3705 subsystem configuration is based on the AdvancedTCA™ (ATCA) form factor hardware evaluation platform named “Saguaro.”
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Carbon Joins MIPS Alliance Program, Integrates Virtual Hardware Models with MIPSsim Instruction Set Simulator
Carbon has joined the MIPS Alliance Program, adding MIPS Technologies to our growing number of strategic partners. Additionally, we’ve integrated our models with the MIPSsim™ Instruction Set Simulator and software debugger to provide a complete validation solution for MIPS-Based™ SoC designs.
The alliance between Carbon and MIPS enables designers to identify and fix bugs in both hardware and software. As part of the collaboration with MIPS, we have developed SystemC-based technology to link Carbon Models directly to the MIPSsim instruction set simulator and software debugger. This direct integration allows the entire SoC to be modeled and run in SystemC. The MIPSsim instruction set simulator executes the embedded firmware and generates transactions for hardware models. Our integration targets these transactions to the correct hardware component and executes the RTL behavior. Software developed and tested on the model can be debugged, while hardware problems can be diagnosed using our design visibility, interactive API and VCD/FSDB waveform capability.
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Don’t Miss the Next Technology Webinar
Automatic Model Generation for ESL Platforms
If you are a software developer, hardware architect or firmware designer, you won’t want to miss our latest webinar — a “how to” tutorial on automatic generation of models for your ESL platform.
You will learn to:
- Develop hardware accurate models in minutes
- Accelerate the execution of your virtual platform
- Concurrently debug real software with real hardware
Register today!
August 14
Automatic Model Creation for CoWare Platform Architect
August 28
Automatic Model Creation for ARM SoC Designer
September 11
Automatic Model Creation for MIPSsim
September 18
Automatic Model Creation for CoWare Platform Architect
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Featured Partner: CoWare
Carbon is a member of CoWare’s Technology Vendor Program, a program to facilitate the development of optimal joint flows and solutions resulting in interfaces that enable designers to focus on design instead of tool interoperability.
Carbon Models can be linked directly into CoWare’s SystemC-based Platform Architect, a tool to assemble and configure SoC platforms for exploration of complex on-chip interconnect architectures, and architectural and performance analysis. Since Carbon Models are generated automatically, designers spend less time writing and validating models and more time using them to find real system problems.
For more information on CoWare, visit: http://www.coware.com
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