30th Sep 2008 07:00
30 September 2008
AXILICA LIMITED
SUCCESSFUL CUSTOMER EVALUATION OF EDA TOOL
IPSO Ventures plc ("IPSO"), the IP commercialisation specialist, is pleased to announce that the electronic design automation ("EDA") tool, FalconML, developed by Axilica Limited ("Axilica"), an IPSO investee company, has completed a successful trial by a major electronics company.
Axilica's product, which brings software and hardware design closer, has been developed to simplify and speed up the design process of semiconductor chips, enabling quicker delivery to market. The successful trial provided confirmation that FalconML successfully generated a VHDL - hardware description language - from Unified Modelling Language ("UML") for a complex chip design in a commercial environment.
Simon Hunt, Chairman of IPSO, said: "The successful evaluation of FalconML in a commercial environment proves that Axilica has achieved what it set out to do and paves the way for the product's launch to the wider market in December 2008."
Suresh Radia, a non-executive director of Axilica who has 25 years' experience in the EDA market, added: "System companies are keen to make hardware and software trade-off decisions earlier in the design process. FalconML's ability to synthesise UML/SysML into Hardware Description Language will allow this to happen."
Further information, please contact:
Ipso Ventures plc: Tel: 020 7395 1500
Simon Hunt, Chairman [email protected]
Nick Rodgers, Chief Executive [email protected]
www.ipsoventures.com
Ambrian Partners Limited Tel: 020 7634 4711
Tim Goodman [email protected]
Rawlings Financial PR Limited Tel: 01653 618 016
Catriona Valentine [email protected]
www.rawlingsfinancial.co.uk
Notes for Editors
Axilica Limited is a spin out from Loughborough University established by IPSO Ventures in September 2007. Axilica has developed an electronic design automation ("EDA") software programme called FalconML which simplifies and speeds up the process of designing semiconductor chips. The Axilica FalconML product is a synthesis technology for the hardware design process that allows designs represented in the form of Unified Modelling Language ("UML") and SySML to be converted into a hardware behavioural design language called VHDL. This results in a more efficient and automated design flow from specification to hardware design language. The programme accepts hardware designs captured in UML from all leading UML products.
FalconML has been developed for use by microelectronic companies. It is able to generate System C and VHDL and brings both hardware and software designers together in the product development process. This results in great benefits to companies in the form of:
* Faster design flow
* Lower design cost
* Quicker time to market
A major electronics company has successfully taken a SysML design through FalconML and produced synthesised VHDL and System C files. The VHDL design from FalconML has been successfully synthesised, placed and routed.
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