( ESNUG 494 Item 8 ) -------------------------------------------- [10/25/11]
Subject: Docea CEO on ChipVision, Esterel, Synfora, Calypto, Catapult C
> LESS IS MORE: For quickie netlist power reduction, Magma CHILL got most
> user interest. On the ESL level Docea Aceplorer got some user interest,
> while Docea's SystemC rival, ChipVision, went out of business this year.
>
> - from http://www.deepchip.com/items/dac11-04.html
From: Ghislain Kaiser <ghislain.kaiser=user domain=doceapower not mom>
Hi John,
You are right you may think that Docea and ChipVision were competitors when
you have a look at our websites and only catch a few key words like
"low-power", "power optimization at ESL", "architecture comparison", and
"exploring and optimizing" -- but the comparison stops there.
Contrary to appearances, I never felt ChipVision was a competitor, nor did
our customers, nor did ChipVision CTO Wolfgang Nebel, who I used to chat
with at DAC and DATE. Here's what our companies do/did:
ChipVision
PowerOpt - a low-power High Level Synthesis tool which did C-to-RTL
synthesis of low power micro architectures.
Docea
Aceplorer - a decision support tool for optimizing/validating "use"
cases and architectures. It does power and thermal
modeling, estimation and low power architecture
exploration of SoCs and chip-sets.
So to be clear Docea is not in the HLS market (which I add is a GOOD THING
as it looks tough.)
- Esterel EDA failed in 2008 and assets were acquired by Synfora
- Synfora were acquired by Synopsys for assets in 2010
- ChipVision failed in 2010
- Calypto recently acquired Mentor Catapult C.
What we (Docea) competes against is engineers using spreadsheets *by hand*
trying to simultaneously analyze the power consumption of: architectures,
analog & digital HW blocks, embedded SW, technology nodes, heat dissipation,
and voltage drops all at once. Docea automates this so engineers can make
EARLY and RELIABLE decisions about their chip's power design specs.
- Ghislain Kaiser
Docea Power San Jose, CA
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