CoWare Inc., a company in the process of being acquired by Synopsys, announced the availability of a high-speed model for Renesas Technology’s (Renesas) SH-4A core model. The model has been developed in collaboration between CoWare and Renesas to ensure the highest level of quality and was verified using Renesas’ test suite. The model is already in use at Renesas for the creation of high-speed virtual platforms targeted at customers in the automotive, consumer, and wireless markets.

The availability of the model and virtual platforms enables Renesas to provide OEM and systems customers with an electronic system virtualization design methodology and a set of productivity-oriented tools. It fosters design collaboration and improves design productivity. According to CoWare, its solution was selected based on three criteria.

• It provides a collaborative infrastructure between hardware, software and system-level developers at Renesas and at their OEM/System customers;
• It is mature, standards-based and provides a tool-based solution that enables semiconductor and OEM/Systems companies to scale their virtual platform independently;
• It enables reduced deployment cost and faster time to market for Renesas and their customers.

The Renesas SH-4A core model is available now from CoWare for use in CoWare Platform Architect and CoWare Virtual Platform, release 2010.1. For more information visit www.coware.com.