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Cypress Uses Denali Blueprint for CSR Automation Management
(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
Denali Software, a provider of electronic design automation (EDA)
software and intellectual property (IP), announced it has licensed its
Blueprint product to Cypress Semiconductor, for use in developing their
PSoC devices.
Cypress said its hardware and software designers have deployed
SystemRDL as a single source for register descriptions and are
leveraging the Blueprint Compiler's extensive generators to create and
automate a variety of register views used in their development process.
"Today's design teams are looking for methods to manage changes between
the chip specifications and all the implementations used throughout the
design and verification process," states Jennifer Sirrine, senior
design engineering manager at Cypress Semiconductor. "Our engineering
teams wanted a single source for control register descriptions, and by
using the industry-standard SystemRDL and Blueprint, have realized
reduced integration time enabling us to meet our design requirements.
Denali's Blueprint provides Cypress with an integral and reliable
platform solution for SoC design."
Cypress PSoC devices employ a highly configurable system-on-chip
architecture for embedded control design, offering a flash-based
equivalent of a field-programmable ASIC without lead-time or NRE
penalties. PSoC devices integrate configurable analog and digital
circuits, controlled by an on-chip microcontroller, providing both
enhanced design revision capability and component count savings. They
include up to 32 Kbytes of Flash memory, 2 Kbytes of SRAM, an 8x8
multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power and sleep monitoring
circuits, and hardware I2C communications, according to the company.
"Denali understands the challenges facing design teams today. The
control register content has exploded in modern SoC's with numbers of
control registers often exceeding 10,000 instances," states Sean Smith,
director of Field Applications and product manager for Blueprint at
Denali Software. "Our customers, such as Cypress, can utilize SystemRDL
to specify all the control register content and act as a single source
of information, and then with Blueprint Compiler, generate all control
registers and related content such as documentation, RTL
implementations, and verification test cases. Due to this automated
synchronization, Blueprint results in increased chip design
productivity and speeds IP reuse."
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