Thierry Bauchon, R&D Director, Home Entertainment Group, STMicroelectronics

Used by the world's leading semiconductor and systems companies, Bluespec's silicon-proven high-level synthesis and emulation tools for ASICs and FPGAs enable:

• High-speed, accurate modeling -- accelerate the execution of hardware and software models
• Architectural exploration -- perform early software development and rapid architectural refinement and exploration
• High-speed prototyping and emulation -- emulate with hardware-accurate models well before RTL is available.  Synthesize high-level models, transactors and testbenches onto FPGA or emulation platforms for orders of magnitude faster modeling and verification
• System and IP design -- achieve up to 10X productivity improvement for complex system and IP design. Leverage extreme reuse and rapid changes

Bluespec Design Services (BDS) combines a world-class engineering team with Bluespec's breakthrough toolset and IP.  BDS delivers unique design and methodology services leveraging high-speed emulation platforms:

• Model development from specifications
• Custom test benches and transactors
• Architectural exploration of complex IP