Date Modified:     05/28/2004
Company Name:     Carbon Design Systems, Inc.
Booth Number:    4416

Booth Number(s):  4416

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Carbon Design Systems, Inc. features products in the following categories:

• Embedded SW Development Tools
HDL Based Design Tools
HW/SW Co-design Tools
IC/ASIC Design Tools
Simulation Tools
Systems on a Chip
Verification Tools

80 Word Final Program Company Abstract

Carbon is delivering software products that enable high-performance pre-silicon chip and system validation. Carbon's single engine solution--DesignPlayer--can be used for hardware, software, and customer design validation. The DesignPlayer engine boosts hardware regression performance and validates drivers, diagnostics, & firmware up to 50X faster with cycle and register accuracy. A low-cost executable or linkable model can be deployed across the enterprise and to customers without the encumbrances of a slow simulator.
Carbon's new approach shortens schedules and accelerates time-to-profit by enabling validation to occur in parallel with hardware development. Product schedules can be cut significantly, with validation starting as early as the first stable RTL. Problems are found and resolved before fabrication--rather than waiting for custom models to be built or silicon to be delivered.

Company Description

Our mission is to deliver software products that enable high-performance pre-silicon chip and system validation. Carbon's single engine solution--DesignPlayer--can be used for hardware, software, and customer design validation.

The DesignPlayer engine boosts hardware regression performance and validates drivers, diagnostics, & firmware up to 50X faster with cycle and register accuracy. A low-cost executable or linkable model can be deployed across the enterprise and to customers without the encumbrances of a slow simulator.

Carbon's new approach shortens schedules and accelerates time-to-profit by enabling validation to occur in parallel with hardware development. Product schedules can be cut significantly, with validation starting as early as the first stable RTL. Problems are found and resolved before fabrication--rather than waiting for custom models to be built or silicon to be delivered.

Carbon's SPEEDCompiler(tm) and DesignPlayer(tm) products enable RTL to be used as an integral part of a pre-silicon validation strategy. Design compilation takes minutes and software executes fast. The results match real hardware bug-for-bug. Carbon linkable objects allow globally distributed development and provide a cost effective solution for thousands of users.

Software designers finally have access to the hardware model from the first available RTL, rather than waiting for custom models to be built or silicon to be delivered.