Catapult

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Catapult C SynthesisCrossing the Gap between
Algorithm and Hardware Architecture
Mac Moore North American Product
Specialist Advanced Synthesis Solutions MAPLD
2005
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Introducing Catapult C Synthesis

• Catapult C Synthesis launched May 31st, 2004
• 100 man years of research and development
• 3 years of customer proof and validation
• Initial focus on wireless companies
  STMicroelectronics, Nokia, Ericsson
• Product took center stage at DAC 2004
• Most important announcement at DAC
  - Gary Smith, Dataquest
• No. 1 must see product
  - Gartner
  Dataquest annual DAC list
• Catapult news in 2005
• EDN Top 100 products
• John Cooleys DAC must see list
• Recent Press Releases SystemC verification
  extension, Fraunhofer, Panasonic, Sanyo customer
  adoption

Front Page -EETimes
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Catapult C Synthesis Algorithm to RTL
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Optimized Design Architecture
A
Result
Optimization Scope
RTL
X
A
IP Block
A
X
Area
Result
Local Minima
A
X
Global Minima Out of Reach
A
Within Reach!
Architectural Scenarios

• Exhaustive design space exploration
• Often yields superior designs over hand-coded RTL

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Incremental Design Analysis

• Analysis tools tackle algorithm complexity and
  interactively converge to the optimal solution
• Cause-and-Effect cross-probing links any result
  with the original C source
• Graphical reports provide better understanding of
  synthesis results
• Ease-of-Use smooths learning curve and
  facilitates tool adoption
• User interface built on live database
• Incremental analysis
• Incremental exploration
• Incremental optimization

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Customer Adoption

• Applications
• Wireless Communications
• Satellite Communications
• WLAN
• Base Stations
• VoIP
• Sound Broadcast
• Video and Multimedia
• Digital TV
• Storage
• Aerospace Military

• Design types
• Filters (FIR, IIR)
• Tranforms (FFT, DCT )
• Equalizers
• Interleavers
• FEC (Viterbi, Reed Solomon)
• Video Line Filters
• JPEG/MPEG Pixel pipes

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Catapult C Synthesis Summary

• Only pure ANSI C algorithmic synthesis tool
• Easiest to write, most concise, fastest to
  simulate, best results
• 1st production quality C tool
• Over 30 completed ASIC FPGA designs
• Documented case studies,
  references
  and testimonials
• Used by top customers worldwide
• ST, Ericsson, Nokia, Alcatel, Siemens,
• Panasonic, Sanyo
• Focus Engineers developing complex
  wireless and video
  hardware
• Yields safer silicon with fewer bugs
• More efficient design flow yielding smaller
  hardware
• in less time
• Automated verification flow

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