Prototype solution supplier Carbon Design Systems previewed its newly released ARM Cortex-A57 Carbon Performance Analysis Kit (CPAK) at the recent Freescale Technology Forum.The release includes multiple CPAKs featuring the ARM Cortex-A53 and Cortex-A57 processor cores. CPAKs enable debug and analysis of 64-bit executables and come complete with pre-built software code to configure and exercise the systems.

Carbon Design Systems and Cadence Design Systems have jointly announced that they are to extend their partnership agreement for intellectual property and system model creation. The agreement aims to expand the value of the distributed models through additional speed enhancements, including Carbon’s exclusive Swap & Play technology.

Carbon Design Systems have announced support for the latest ARM technology, and that it will create and deliver virtual models for the ARM Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 processors, as well as CoreLink CCN-504 system intellectual property. The models will enable architectural optimization, system performance analysis and pre-silicon software development.

Carbon Design Systems announced today that its newest Carbon Performance Analysis Kit (CPAK) featuring the ARM Cortex-R7 processor is available for download from the Carbon IP Exchange web portal. Previously available to strategic partners in Carbon’s R7 early access program, the CPAK and model are now available for all users of its SoCDesigner Plus, enabling real-time development of embedded systems.

Carbon Design Systems announced today that it closed calendar year 2012, recording its sixth consecutive year of growth as more companies recognized the need for virtual prototypes with a path to accuracy. The growth can be attributed to 14 new customers, fueled by the adoption of Carbon Performance Analysis Kits (CPAKs), pre-built, easily extensible virtual prototypes introduced in May, and a $4 million investment from Samsung in September.

Hal Conklin today assumed the role of vice president of sales and marketing at Carbon Design Systems. Conklin reports to Richard Lucier, Carbon’s president and chief executive officer, and is charged with developing and managing Carbon’s worldwide sales and marketing strategy.

Carbon Design Systems has declared today that it has received $4 million in investment funding from Samsung Venture Investment Corporation. Additionally, the companies have entered into a strategic partnership.

Carbon Design Systems and Arteris announced today the first release of a Carbon Performance Analysis Kit that features an Arteris network-on-chip interconnect. The CPAK is available for immediate download on the Carbon IP Exchange web portal and executes in Carbon’s SoCDesigner Plus virtual prototype environment.

Carbon Design Systems Inc. announced today that a wide range of Imagination’s PowerVR, Ensigma and Meta intellectual property cores will be available as 100% accurate virtual models from Carbon’s IP Exchange web portal.

Carbon Design Systems Inc. today introduced the Carbon Performance Analysis Kit family for accelerating the analysis, optimization and verification of system-on-chip performance. CPAKs enable architects and engineers to begin analyzing performance and power within hours of installation, and months before tapeout, reducing overall time-to-market pressures and minimizing the risk of a complete re-design.

Carbon Design Systems announced today that it closed calendar year 2011, recording its fifth consecutive year of growth driven by its leading virtual prototyping solutions for architects and firmware teams using the ARM Cortex™ intellectual property (IP) family.

Carbon’s virtual models available for CEVA-X and CEVA-XC DSPs, enabling cycle-accurate, pre-silicon hardware and software development

CEVA, Inc a leading licensor of silicon intellectual property (SIP) platform solutions and DSP cores, and Carbon Design Systems™, the leading supplier of solutions for architectural analysis, performance optimization and pre-silicon firmware debug, today announced the availability of fast simulation models for CEVA’s industry-leading CEVA-X and CEVA-XC DSP families, dramatically reducing customers’ hardware and software development time for...

Carbon Design Systems announced immediate availability of its Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture (AMBA) Advanced eXtensible Interface (AXI) specification Analysis Package for SoC Designer Plus.

Carbon Design Systems, the leading supplier of solutions for architectural analysis, performance optimization and pre-silicon firmware debug, announced today availability of 100% accurate models of ARM®’s Cortex™-A15 processor on Carbon’s IP Exchange web portal throughits early access program.

Carbon Design Systems and MIPS Technologies (NASDAQ: MIPS), a leading provider of industry-standard processor architectures and cores for digital, home, networking and mobile applications, announced today that they are collaborating to create and distribute virtual platform models of MIPS Technologies’ processor intellectual property (IP) cores.

Carbon Design Systems, the leading supplier of tools for the automatic creation, validation and deployment of system-level models, today unveiled a TLM-2.0 solution for the AMBA protocol to enable modeling the widely adopted AMBA® protocols with SystemC TLM2-0.

Carbon Design Systems announced today that it closed calendar year 2010 with year-over-year growth of 35% and generated significant positive cash flow as it continues to build momentum in the virtual platform market. It experienced growth in all geographies worldwide and added substantial contributions from its new Carbon IP Exchange online offering.

Carbon Design Systems, a leading supplier of tools for the automatic creation, validation and deployment of system-level models, today announced December 20 availability of implementation-accurate models of the ARM Cortex-A5 and the ARM Cortex-M4 processors.

Carbon Design Systems today unveiled Carbon IP Exchange, a web portal with a rich library of system-level models from a variety of intellectual property (IP) vendors to streamline the creation of virtual platforms for architecture analysis, performance optimization and pre-silicon software development.