SAN JOSE, CALIF. -- June 17, 2009 -- Forte Designs Systems
(www.ForteDS.com) today announced that Ricoh Corporation, Ltd.,
(www.ricoh.com) of Tokyo, Japan, has delivered a multi-million gate
system-on-chip (SoC) design for its latest commercial printing products
using Forte's Cynthesizer(tm) SystemC high-level synthesis software.
Ricoh signed a multi-site agreement in 2008, extending the existing
relationship that has produced several successful projects and tapeouts. It recently completed a multi-million gate design containing complex
control and datapath logic and confirmed that it plans to use
Cynthesizer for the design of its future SoC projects.
"We have confirmed that we obtain the best quality and time-to-market
results by incorporating Forte's Cynthesizer into our development
process for complex memory access, controller, hierarchy and algorithmic
construct designs," remarks Hiroki Uchiyama, general manager of Ricoh's
Controller Development Division. "Cynthesizer's quality of results
is better than hand-coded RTL designs and provides a significant
time-to-market advantage. We are confident that using Cynthesizer
in upcoming projects will continue to provide us with significant
competitive advantages."
Ricoh chose Cynthesizer for its best-in-class quality of results (QoR)
for control and datapath designs, advanced design and verification
feature set, and use of the industry-standard SystemC language.
When compared to manual register transfer level (RTL) coding, Ricoh
found that Cynthesizer enabled its design team to significantly increase
productivity while providing better overall QoR.
Cynthesizer's advanced features provide enhancements to Ricoh's design
process while reducing risk. These features include: CynWare(tm)
intellectual property (IP) verified interfaces and datatypes; the
Behavioral Design Workbench(tm) (BDW) integrated automation and
verification environment; and Cynthesizer's advanced algorithms for
predictable timing closure. In addition, because Cynthesizer uses
standard SystemC, Ricoh designers are able to add concurrency and bit
accuracy, a critical element to a successful design not available in
ANSI-C.
"We are extremely proud of Ricoh's successes in production designs since
employing Cynthesizer in 2004," says Brett Cline, vice president of
marketing and sales of Forte Design Systems. "Our expanded
relationship with Ricoh proves that Cynthesizer's SystemC synthesis
solution provides the results needed by leading systems and
semiconductor companies."
Forte's advanced SystemC high-level synthesis technology delivers
production quality register transfer level (RTL) code in one-tenth the
time of hand-coded RTL designs, and eliminates downstream timing closure
problems. Cynthesizer uses a high-level SystemC description to
give designers the ability to build designs with custom interfaces and
challenging architectural requirements not available with other C-based
languages. It can retarget automatically designs to new speeds and
process technologies without code changes and supports a level of reuse
impossible in RTL.
Forte Design Systems (www.ForteDS.com)
is a leading provider of software products that enable design at a
higher level of abstraction. Its innovative high-level synthesis
technology allows design teams creating complex electronic systems from
algorithmic designs using ASICs, FPGAs, and SoCs to significantly reduce
their overall design and verification time. Forte is headquartered
at 100 Century Center Court, San Jose, Calif. 95112. For
more information, visit www.ForteDS.com.
A global leader in digital office solutions, Ricoh (www.ricoh.com)
creates new value at the interface of people and information, offering a
broad range of digital, networked products, including MFPs, printers,
fax machines, semiconductor related products and digital cameras.
With 83,400 employees worldwide (as of March 31, 2008), and $22 billion
in revenue (Year ended March 31, 2008), Ricoh is also one of the world's
leading environmentalist companies, committed to sustainable business
everywhere.
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