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News Release from: CoWare | Subject: CORXpert
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 June 2005
Technology boosts processor performance
CoWare has introduced CORXpert technology, a new part of its LISATek product family, that automates the path for software developers to develop custom instructions to improve processor performance
CoWare, the leading supplier of electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, introduced CORXpert technology, a new part of its LISATek product family, that automates the path for software developers to develop custom instructions to improve processor performance, creating differentiated products With CORXpert Personality Kits for a particular processor - created by CoWare with processor vendors or semiconductor companies - software developers can rapidly develop and explore instructions to improve processor performance for a target application without impacting their time-to-market goals
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 17 Jun 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Increasingly, designers are looking at software-driven differentiation.
But, by putting all the differentiation in software, they may be compromising product performance.
By offering a fast and easy way to extend the processor's instruction set with user defined instructions that optimize specific application-software performance, we enable custom-hardware performance and the programmability benefits of software.
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CORXpert Automates Processor Improvements for Software Developers CORXpert improves the competitiveness of a product by enabling the best performance versus implementation cost trade-offs to be made early in the design.
CORXpert gives software developers the ability to easily improve the available performance of their application code.
For a given processor, CORXpert automates the generation of the Instruction Set Simulator (ISS), RTL implementation code and documentation, all from an easy to use graphical user interface (GUI).
The GUI works with existing software tool flows so customers can be productive immediately-able to concentrate on adding performance, not on manual, often error prone tasks.
And with familiar C code to define the instruction behavior, there is no hardware description language to learn.
High-quality RTL synthesis together with ready to run synthesis scripts allows a direct implementation path, without waiting to hand the design over to the hardware development team.
This means there is no risk of misinterpretation of a paper specification.
Generation of the instruction documentation that is consistent with the ISS models and RTL provides an easy way to communicate the new instructions to other software developers.
And with these consistent models, verification time is reduced drastically compared to manual methods.
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