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Carbon Design Systems Posts Sixth Consecutive Year of Growth Fueled by Expanded Solutions Offerings
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.
“2Samsung’s strategic investment has been used as working capital and supports Carbon's ongoing development of leading tools in the electronic system level (ESL) design space, including its fast, accurate virtual prototypes.
CPAKs, packaged with bare-metal and O/S software to enable rapid user productivity, cut the time needed to be productive with virtual prototypes to minutes. More than 30 CPAKs are available from Carbon’s IP Exchange web portal and feature intellectual property (IP) cores from Carbon partners ARM, Arteris, MIPS and Cadence.