PARIS — ESL design software vendor CoWare Inc. and FPGA vendor Xilinx Inc. have signed an agreement under which CoWare is integrating and distributing models of Xilinx's LTE baseband IP portfolio with its SPW LTE solution.
Available now, the CoWare SPW Library for Xilinx LTE IP includes the Xilinx reference models for critical LTE functions such as the turbo decoder and the MIMO decoder, noted partners. The purpose is to enable 4G basestation designers to reap value through faster simulation and development times.
Basestation designers validate the specification of their product by simulating C-models and comparing these results against reference results from the LTE standard. In the CoWare solution, the company claimed that designers can save time by combining C-models of their own LTE blocks together with the Xilinx LTE IP models.
Using the regression simulation and analysis infrastructure that CoWare SPW provides, design teams can automatically check millions of test vectors and hundreds of system scenarios for functional and performance compliance with the LTE standard, CoWare added.
On Feb. 8, EDA and IP vendor Synopsys Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.) announced it had signed a definitive agreement to buy CoWare. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.
Synopsys said the acquisition would expand its portfolio of system design and verification products used in wireless, consumer and automotive design.
