Date: 11/06/2010

Fujitsu to design its SoCs using Bluespec tool for its high level abstraction of VLSI programming

Fujitsu has selected the Bluespec high-level synthesis toolset for development of system-on-a-chip (SoC) designs. This tool will be used for the research and design of advanced (many core) processors for hardware processing embedded in the server. The project is named "Leading research for many core processors". Fujitsu has been commissioned by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan to do this project.

Bluespec's tools for ASICs and FPGAs help chip designers in modeling, architectural exploration, prototyping and emulation, and system and IP design. Buespec partners with leading FPGA vendors and EDA tools vendors to support integration and to ensure interoperability. Bluespec is also a member of Accellera and a active contributor to system verilog.

"We recognized that we had reached the limit of conventional RTL-based design for the development of the processor interconnect networks of many-core processors with 32, 48, or 64 cores, due to the exponential growth of the total combination and amount of communication patterns with these high numbers of cores." said Moriyuki Takamura, Director of Enterprise Server Business Unit at Fujitsu Limited. "Even if we automate the whole processor design process from the high-level description to implementation by using SystemC, the description language for verification, it is still very difficult to realize the required latency and silicon size. Bluespec provides us a high-level of abstraction that enables us to achieve these objectives. Not limited to many-core processors, we can expect more benefits from using Bluespec in the development of LSIs for consumer and industrial equipment."


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