Carbon Design Systems™, a leading supplier of tools for the automatic creation, validation and deployment of system-level models, today announced December 20 availability of implementation-accurate models of the ARM Cortex™-A5 and the ARM Cortex™-M4 processors.

Models are available through Carbon IP Exchange for designers using SoC Designer Plus. Carbon IP Exchange is a recently introduced web-based portal with round-the-clock availability where models are generated directly from ARM’s register transfer level (RTL) code using Carbon Model Studio. Models are constructed to ensure proper configurations and made available for secure download. Processor models can be used with Carbon’s SoC Designer Plus virtual platform and feature interactive debugging using ARM’s Realview Debugger. Other features include semi-hosting, program loading and detailed hardware/software profiling.

Models are available at no charge for existing SoC Designer Plus users. Pricing for other environments starts at $10,000. Carbon IP Exchange is found at: www.carbonipexchange.com.