Coware

CoWare, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	Software & Programming
Founded	1996
Headquarters	San Jose, California
Key people	Alan Naumann, President/CEO
Website	www.coware.com

CoWare, now part of Synopsys, was a supplier of platform-driven electronic system level (ESL) design software and services. CoWare was headquartered in San Jose, California, and had offices around the world, major R&D offices in Belgium, Germany and India.

History

Original CoWare technology development was initiated by the Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC) in Belgium as an internal project in 1992.^[1]

In 1996, CoWare spun off as an independent company.^[2]

CoWare is one of the founding member of SystemC language^[3]

In 2005, CoWare acquired the Signal Processing department from Cadence.^[4]

On February 8, 2010, Synopsys has announced an acquisition of CoWare.^[5]

Products

• Platform Architect
• Model Designer
• Model Library
• Processor Designer
• Signal Processing Designer
• Virtual Platform Designer
  • This allow to generate and package customs Virtual Platform

References

1. ^ CoWare: A design environment for heterogeneous hardware/software systems Journal Design Automation for Embedded Systems Issue Volume 1, Number 4 / October, 1996 -- Pages 357-386 ISSN 0929-5585 (Print) 1572-8080 (Online)
2. ^ "CoWare (Santa Clara, Calif.) was spun out of IMEC in 1996 to market the N2C hardware-software codesign technology, which was originally developed at IMEC." http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19981120S0017
3. ^ Babel of languages competing for role in SoC - http://www.eetimes.com/ip99/ip99story1.html
4. ^ Cadence has granted CoWare an exclusive license to sell and develop Cadence's Signal Processing Workstation (SPW) tool, and Co-Ware has taken over Cadence's ESL group. http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18309425
5. ^ http://synopsys.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=775

External links

• Official site
• IMEC
• Open SystemC

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