Carbon grows its footprint

Under the terms of the deal, key members of ARM’s SoC Designer development team will transfer to Carbon Design Systems at a new office located in California. Carbon will also gain access to ARM intellectual property (IP) in order to optimise its tools to offer customers a kit for the generation of cycle accurate models of ARM processors, PrimeCell peripherals and fabric IP. “The ability to optimise the Carbon tool chain to work seamlessly with ARM IP is a natural extension of Carbon’s model focused strategy,” said Carbon’s ceo Rick Lucier. “Most of our customers are already using ARM IP in their SoC designs. This agreement will enable Carbon to deliver a complete cycle accurate tools solution to our customers, including the SoC Designer tool, enabling the generation of highly accurate models derived directly from the IP RTL code.” John Cornish, general manager of ARM’s system design division, added: “Carbon is a natural partner for the continuing support of our customers using SoC Designer and cycle accurate models of ARM IP. The agreement will ensure customers have access to a fast, cycle accurate design environment in which they can architect and validate advanced SoC designs based on ARM IP.”