OKI IDS automates High Level VLSI design using Siemens Catapult

OKI IDS, a Japanese based VLSI design services company is using Siemens Catapult software for High-Level Synthesis (HLS) and High-Level Verification (HLV) in their design and verification services.
The benefits OKI IDS getting from this HL VLSI design tool as per Siemens includes: To efficiently verify the equivalence of high-level models and algorithm models using C/C++ and register transfer level (RTL) code after HLS through simulation. To automatically convert a testbench that verifies high-level models and algorithm models using C/C++ for HLS into a testbench for RTL functional verification, and to verify RTL functions on a testbench equivalent to the high-level models, enabling RTL functional verification with a testbench equivalent to the high-level model. Development of a new testbench for RTL functional verification after high-level synthesis is not required. Verification of high-level code and algorithms using C/C++ as executable specifications can now be utilized for RTL functional verification, enabling a significant improvement in design quality. “With the adoption of Catapult, the industry's only integrated high-level synthesis and verification environment, we can now thoroughly verify the executable specification in C/C++ code provided by our customers and ac...