Forte Design Systems today announced its Cynthesizer high-level synthesis (HLS) is the first HLS software to support IEEE 1666-2011 SystemC. Cynthesizer 4.3, with support for SystemC 2.3 IEEE1666-2001, is available now.

Forte Design Systems has revealed today immediate availability of the latest version of its Cynthesizer System high-level synthesis. Enhancements, including increases to Cynthesizer’s performance and capacity, have been made across the entire tool suite to enable designs to be done faster and with better results. The latest features include new modeling style support, expanded optimization and analysis capabilities, integration with third-party...

Forte Design Systems today announced High-IP Design Company, a SystemC intellectual property provider, has licensed Forte’s Cynthesizer SystemC high-level synthesis. As part of the licensing agreement, Forte will resell a high-level, re-targetable USB 2.0 device and embedded host controller for systems on chip and field programmable gate arrays in synthesizable SystemC form and Verilog register transfer level code. A USB 3.0 device and embedde...

Forte Design Systems today reported 30% year-over-year growth in its business in 2011. Growth was driven primarily by sales of the latest version of Cynthesizer™ SystemC high-level synthesis. “2011 was a pivotal year for Forte and one that set the stage for breakout adoption worldwide,” remarks Sean Dart, Forte’s president and chief executive officer.

Dr. John W. Sanguinetti, chief technology officer at Forte Design Systems, has been named a 2011 Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow for contributions to hardware simulation.

Forte Design Systems today began shipping the latest version of its Cynthesizer SystemC high-level synthesis (HLS) software, offering improved performance and quality of results (QoR).

Realtek Semiconductor Corp. of Hsinchu, Taiwan, has selected high-level synthesis (HLS) software and floating point intellectual property (IP) from Forte Design Systems™ for the design and development of systems on chip (SoCs) for communications network, computer peripheral and multimedia applications.

Forte Design Systems announced today that Cynthesizer high-level synthesis software has been selected for use in Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited’s application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) Reference Flow for the new 40-nanometer (nm) process technologies, along with 90- and 65nm.

Imagination Technologies of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, signed an agreement to extend the license of Forte Design Systems’ software for the continued design and support of its advanced, current-generation POWERVR graphics intellectual property (IP) cores.

Axell Corporation of Tokyo has selected Cynthesizer™ SystemC high-level synthesis software and CellMath intellectual property (IP) from Forte Design Systems™ for development of its multifunction graphics and audio system-on-chip (SoC) designs.

Forte Design Systems today appointed Masayuki (Mike) Arai to the position of president and general manager of Forte Design Systems KK in Yokohama, Japan.

Forte Design Systems, a leading provider of High-Level Synthesis software, today appointed Masayuki (Mike) Arai to the position of president and general manager of Forte Design Systems KK in Yokohama, Japan.

Forte Design Systems, a leading provider of High-Level Synthesis software, today announced that TSMC has validated its Cynthesizer™ SystemC high-level synthesis product for Reference Flow 11.0 inclusion. Forte is demonstrating Cynthesizer in Booth #750 at the 47th Design Automation Conference (DAC) through Wednesday, June 16, at the Anaheim Convention Center here.

Forte Design Systems today launched Cynthesizer Ultra, its high-level SystemC synthesis software tightly integrated with its CellMath product family to create better designs faster. Additionally, Forte’s flagship Cynthesizer SystemC high-level synthesis software, used in more than 200 production ASIC and SoC silicon tapeouts since 2002, includes new capabilities that reduce design time, improve power utilization and accelerate verification p...

Verific Design Automation, supplier of de facto standard front-end software to the EDA and semiconductor community, announced today that Forte Design Systems has renewed its license for Verific’s HDL software for use with its CellMath Designer datapath synthesis.

Forte Design Systems, a leading provider of SystemC high-level synthesis, datapath synthesis and intellectual property (IP), announced it is shipping the latest version of CellMath Designer™ datapath synthesis and Cellmath IP software. The CellMath family allows register transfer level (RTL) designers to reduce area, improve performance and lower power consumption for their existing datapath-intensive design blocks.

Forte Design Systems, a leading provider of SystemC high-level synthesis, datapath synthesis, and intellectual property (IP), is a 2010 Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) Global Event Sponsor and will co-sponsor the European SystemC User Group (ESCUG) Meeting.

Forte Design Systems announced today that MegaChips Corporation of Osaka, Japan, has selected Cynthesizer SystemC high-level synthesis software from Forte Design Systems(tm) for development of its system-on-chip (SoC) designs.