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News Release from: CoFluent Design | Subject: CoFluent Studio
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 May 2007
Software for early system architecture
exploration
CoFluent Studio enables decision making at the early project stage due to a higher level of abstraction that simplifies and speeds architectural modification
CoFluent Design, an Electronic System Level (ESL) company focused on delivering state-of-the-art software solutions for early system architecture exploration and performance analysis, has announced that the coming-up version 2.1 of its flagship product CoFluent Studio would be available for preview at the 44th Design Automation Conference in San Diego, California, from June 4th to the 8th CoFluent Studio is used to develop the optimum system architecture at the beginning of the ESL flow
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 26 Jan 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The system architecture defines performance, functionality, power consumption, cost and other elements at a stage where 80% of the design's value is added, determining the final product market match and competitiveness.
CoFluent Studio enables decision making at the earliest stage of a project thanks to its higher level of abstraction that considerably simplifies and speeds architectural modification, while offering very high speed simulation.
Architectural development using CoFluent Studio is executed at the message passing level of abstraction following a design flow that keeps separate views of the application and the platform, to later merge them through a unique mapping operation.
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It automatically generates Transactional Level Modeling (TLM) SystemC models which can be used as test benches to validate cycle-accurate implementation micro-architectures.
CoFluent Studio v2.0 already gave the possibility to do early, agile and rapid system macro-architecture exploration and performance analysis by modeling the behavior of the application running on generic platform performance models.
This requires considerable lower efforts and costs compared to other ESL tools co-simulating hardware models with the real software code.
"CoFluent users can get dynamic profiles of performance indices like power consumption, memory use, processor and bus loads without writing SystemC models and with no hardware Intellectual Property block, Instruction Set Simulator (ISS) or embedded software code being needed", said Jean-Paul Calvez, Chief Technical Officer of CoFluent Design.
Now, with the new architecture exploration facility integrated into the coming-up v2.1 release, users have the possibility to select a variation range for a design parameter of their choice, run simulation batches for each value of the parameter, and obtain analysis results displayed in the same chart.
In one single view, users can get a visual comparison of the same system under different architecting scenarios.
The impact of a parameter change in a design can also be very easily analysed and understood so the optimal value can be chosen.
In the end, CoFluent enables its customers to develop optimised architectures unconstrained by downstream implementation considerations, up stream of micro-architecture decisions.
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