Tuesday, November 1, 2011

ARM unveils 64-bit architecture suited to servers

Oct 27th 2011:

A step by ARM towards its competition with Intel.

(Reuters) - British chip designer ARM has unveiled details of its first 64-bit architecture, which it said would expand its reach into enterprise applications such as servers currently dominated by Intel.

More: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/27/us-arm-idUSTRE79Q5RR20111027

Monday, October 31, 2011

Carbon SoC Designer and Model Studio

As expected more SoC tools are coming out with more options. SystemC and IP-XACT became norm of all tools

Carbon is a leading supplier of system-level tools to automatically create, validate, and deploy software models generated from Verilog and/or VHDL. Carbon models of ARM IP are industry's only 100% accurate models for use in system level modeling environments.

Carbon has officially released Carbon SoC Designer Plus 7.8 and Carbon Model Studio 5.9

Check out more in http://www.carbondesignsystems.com/CarbonModelStudio.aspx
http://www.carbondesignsystems.com/SocDesignerPlus.aspx

In near future, the tools will have common features and soon they will be inter-operable.