Carbon and Cadence expand IP partnership

10th December 2013

Nat Bowers

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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.

The intention of this is to enable Carbonized models of Cadence IP to integrate fully into Carbon’s unified virtual prototype solution. They also aim to be able to scale from 100s of MIPS performance to 100% accuracy.

Rick Lucier, Carbon’s president and chief executive officer, commented: “Carbon has a long history of successful projects using Cadence’s DDR memory controllers and Cadence Tensilica processors. Expanding our partnership builds upon this success and meets the rising demand for additional Cadence IP models we’re seeing from designers worldwide.“

Under the agreement, Cadence and Carbon will make all of Cadence’s design IP models available on the Carbon IP web portal and they also plan to collaborate to produce additional Carbon Performance Analysis Kits featuring Cadence IP. These new models and CPAKs will accelerate the availability of accurate virtual prototypes for architectural analysis, performance optimizations and pre-silicon firmware development.

“Our relationship with Carbon enables rapid IP adoption. Getting our IP integrated more easily into complex system-on-chip designs is a win for design teams because it can further accelerate their time to market. Carbon’s accurate virtual prototype models and systems is the means in which to do so,” comments Martin Lund, Cadence’s senior vice president, IP Group.

Carbon’s expanded portfolio of Cadence design IP is available now on the Carbon IP Exchange web portal. New CPAKs will be announced as they are available.