Carbon Design Systems’ Carbon Model Studio Selected as 2008 DesignVision Award Finalist

Model Generator Listed in System-Level Design Tools Category
DesignCon 2008

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Carbon Design Systems™ today said that its Carbon Model Studio has been named a finalist in the System-Level Design Tools category of this year’s DesignVision Awards.

DesignVision Awards recognize technologies, applications, products, and services judged to be the most unique and beneficial to the industry. Carbon Model Studio, introduced in October 2007, is a solution for the automatic generation, validation and implementation of hardware-accurate software models, enabling a design team to begin software development and debug before silicon.

Winners of this year’s awards will be announced Tuesday, February 5, at noon during DesignCon, which will be held February 4-7 at Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, Calif.

About Carbon Design Systems

Carbon is the leading supplier of system-level tools to automatically create, validate and deploy software models generated from Verilog and/or VHDL descriptions. Carbon’s models are used in conjunction with SystemC simulation platforms to enable architecture profiling and software validation in parallel with hardware development. Problems can be found and resolved early in the design cycle, rather than waiting for prototypes to be built or silicon to be delivered. Its solutions are based on open industry standards, including SystemC, SCML, Verilog, VHDL, OSCI TLM, MDI, CASI, CADI and CAPI. Carbon’s customers are systems, semiconductor, and IP companies that focus on communications, networking, and consumer electronics. Carbon is headquartered at 375 Totten Pond Road, Waltham, Mass., 02451. Telephone: (781) 890-1500. Facsimile: (781) 890-1711. Email: info@carbondesignsystems.com. Web site: www.carbondesignsystems.com.

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