Forte unveil enhanced Cynthesizer SystemC-based HLS tool

Forte Design Systems has unveiled enhanced Cynthesizer SystemC-based high-level synthesis (HLS) product, which includes low power synthesis capabilities, core synthesis algorithms, and a new SystemC integrated development environment (IDE). "Power efficiency is necessary across the spectrum of devices, and is becoming increasingly more important as the explosion of mobile devices drives the need for big data and cloud devices," says long-time Cynthesizer user Steven Frank, Panève chief executive officer (CEO). "Panève leverages Cynthesizer's unique capabilities to develop radically new big-data architectures that are inherently more efficient in both power and performance. To be able to further optimize power efficiency of a synthesized SystemC design automatically and with minimal engineering effort further validates the SystemC design path and Cynthesizer." "Cynthesizer 5 defines the next generation of high-level synthesis technologies," remarks Brett Cline, Forte's vice president of marketing and sales. "We've leveraged more than a decade of production design experience to allow design teams to get to better results more quickly. Cynthesizer continues to lead the way for quality of results and now includes several advanced optimizations for low power design." Cynthesizer 5 includes Forte's new "C5" synthesis core, introducing a new architecture that combines the ...