World Top-class EDA Vendors
Join the SpecC Technology Open Consortium
To Build Methodology for Higher Abstraction Levels of System Specification
Cadence, CynApps, Mentor
will focus on specification exchange
from the specification phase to final design phase
Tokyo, Japan, March
23, 2000 - The SpecC Technology Open Consortium (STOC) announced today
that three more EDA companies have joined the consortium's drive to
establish a SpecC-based system-design methodology that enables smooth,
accelerated specifications exchanges during the product development
process, from the specification phase to final design phase. Also six
companies in system design industries have joined the STOC to enhance
the development and design process for electronic products.
Ken'ichi Chiboshi, Secretary of the STOC, stated "Cadence Design
Systems, Inc., CynApps Inc., and Mentor Graphics Corp. are the latest
to join from the EDA industry. Also in recent three months, Alpine Electronics,
Inc., Hitachi Electronics Services Co.,Ltd., OKI Information Systems
Co., Ltd., Synthesis Corp., Toyota Motor Corp., and Yamaha Corp. have
joined to STOC. The consortium's 36 members and participants are working
to standardize the SpecC language and methodology for speeding time-to-market
for systems companies by a clear, well-established design process, from
specification to implementation for electronic products, with far fewer
misses in communication between design divisions."
Originally developed at University of California, Irvine, SpecC language-specification
description language based on C-is designed to support smooth overall
integration of product development, from determining specifications
to design implementation. SpecC language allows the same semantics and
syntax to be used to represent specifications in a conceptual system,
in hardware and software and, most importantly, in intermediate specifications
and information during hardware and software co-design stages.
"By adding major players from EDA industry to the original members
of major players in systems and embedded software tools industries,
STOC as a truly open community will promote collaboration among members
to bring real solutions of system design to designers' desks. Various
tools and services from many tool vendors are expected soon," said
Kiichiro Tamaru, Chairperson of the STOC. "International scopes
of our recent new members illustrates the industry's growing desire
for emergence of a de facto standard language and interchange format
for system specification design, which leads exchange, re-use and trade
of specifications as intellectual properties. Integration of specifications
and design steps in the System-on-a-Chip design process in SpecC methodology
will be the answer to the industries."
"Mentor Graphics is excited about SpecC because it addresses higher
abstraction levels of system specification not addressed by other efforts,"
said by Michael Chen, Product Line Director of SoC Verification Business
Unit, Mentor Graphics Corporation. "We believe that active participation
in truly open and inclusive standardization efforts will benefit embedded
system designers who are trying to deal with rapidly growing design
size and complexity issues."
"The Cadence System Level Design Business Group is committed to
helping our customers build advanced system level methodologies which
support open standards. Thus, Cadence is delighted to join the SpecC
Consortium and applauds the STOC's efforts to contribute to high-level
language standards in a truly open manner," said Stanly Krolikoski,
Group Director of the Cadence System Level Design Business Group.
"CynApps is pleased to join the SpecC Technology Open Consortium.
The Consortium's goals of standardizing specification design languages
are perfectly aligned with CynApps goals and our open source technology.
We look forward to working with the Consortium and its member companies
to develop truly open approaches to solving the problems of higher level
design specification and processes," stated John Sanguinetti, President
and CEO of CynApps.
STOC will also facilitate an open discussions and emergence of interface
specification for interoperability of development and design tool which
includes not only compilers, simulators and synthesis tools but also
problem solving tools for specification.
About STOC
The SpecC Technology Open Consortium (STOC) has been established
on Novermber 10, 1999 by 24 companies and organizations world-wide
for securing wide acceptance of a SpecC language-based methodology
that enhances development integration of the development process
and that overcomes constraints on time-to-market and cost.
The new methodology is expected to achieve significant productivity
gains in development of electronics products, including communications
equipment, portable products, multimedia equipment, set-top
boxes, and electronic control unit.
Activities of STOC will be publicized at the consortium's
web site at http://www.SpecC.org/, where the introduction
of SpecC technology, the consortium's activities, and research
results are available.
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