[July 02, 2008] Cypress Uses Denali Blueprint for CSR Automation Management Tweet (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." ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) ((Distributed on behalf of 10Meters via M2 Communications Ltd - http://www.m2.com)) ((10Meters - http://www.10meters.com)) Copyright ? 2008 Wireless News [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]