Oct. 21, 2009 (Business Wire) -- ARM TechCon3 Conference

CoWare^®, Inc., the leading supplier of Electronic System Virtualization™ software and services, and ARM (LSE:ARM) (Nasdaq:ARMH) today announced their partnership to provide system designers with a new SystemC solution for the efficient configuration of AMBA^® NIC-301 Network Interconnect based SoC Designs. The announcement includes the launch of CoWare’s new SBL-301 SystemC Bus Library for CoWare Platform Architect, enabling early configuration, exploration, and optimization of next-generation system-on-chip (SoC) architectures using AMBA^® technology-based virtual platforms in SystemC, and a new agreement enabling CoWare direct distribution and support of the ARM^® AMBA designer ADR-301 tool for AMBA NIC-301 configuration.

“Our AMBA NIC-301 Network Interconnect is a highly configurable Fabric IP that allows our customers to better meet their performance goals. CoWare’s adoption of the latest generation AMBA Network Interconnect into their Platform Architect portfolio is a significant demonstration of their commitment to support ARM’s customers designing at the system-level in SystemC,” said Andy Nightingale, product marketing manager – Processor Division, ARM.

“The pressure facing our customers to meet their increased performance, cost and low power requirements is placing a big burden on system architects to define the right architecture,” said Patrick Sheridan, director of marketing, CoWare. “Based on CoWare’s patented Bus Compiler technology, our new SBL-301 SystemC Bus Library for Platform Architect enables system architects to truly benefit from the unique capabilities of ARM’s AMBA NIC-301 Network Interconnect. CoWare is excited to announce the results of our partnership with ARM.”

New Technology for CoWare Platform Architect

CoWare virtual platforms for architecture design are the virtualized representation of an electronic system used for the purpose of system-level performance analysis and architecture optimization. The CoWare Platform Architect flow provides system architects with the ability to efficiently capture the dynamic performance workloads of each application subsystem of a multi-function SoC in the form of transaction traffic, months before software is available and with minimum modeling effort using a well-defined, repeatable methodology. Highlights of the flow resulting from this agreement include:

• Fast and accurate SBL-301 SystemC Bus Library that fully models the AMBA NIC-301 Network Interconnect at the transaction-level for architecture exploration and performance optimization.