Cooley Commentary & More

John Cooley, editor of www.deepchip.com, sheds lights on the industry and “rubber meets the road” usage of EDA tools. Avoid the marketing hype of tool vendors by checking out what real customers are saying about their EDA tool experiences:

05/27/2010 University user dumps hand-coding VHDL for Catapult C synthesis

University user reviews using Catapult to generate RTL from C++ source code for ASICs and FPGAs to prototype high performance receiver algorithms for wireless systems.

12/11/2009 DAC Trip Report: Users on Catapult C

Read user comments about Catapult C from their DAC trip reports and discover why John Cooley’s believes Mentor Catapult C has the lead so far in the HLS space.

11/20/2009 One user's 5 week eval of CatapultC vs. hand coded RTL

“Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer” shares his experience with Catapult C and explains how he reduced project time by 40% and design area by 29% on his first usage of the tool.

7/24/2009 My Cheesy Must See List at DAC 2009

Catapult C Synthesis makes John Cooley's #1 spot on what to see at DAC

7/14/2009 I Sense A Tremor In The Force

John Cooley writes "From that one US hands-on CatapultC user story, 12 out of the 24 most read items in the past 7 months worth of ESNUGs were now about SystemC/C/C++/Bluespec."

5/08/2009 Mentor tells Synfora get CatC facts straight

Bryan Bowyer of Mentor Graphics corrects Synfora's facts on Catapult C from a previous ESNUG report.

4/22/2009 A second US-based C synthesis design reports in

A US wireless designer details a 60% time to market time savings using Catapult C.

3/06/2009 A hesitant RTL designer trys out CatapultC design

A first time C user describes how they taped out their first wireless short range communication test block in 40% less time.

2/05/2009 What are the 2 biggest reasons to use High Level Synthesis?

Shawn McCloud from Mentor Graphics shares the results of a blind worldwide survey on using ANSI-C/C++/SystemC-to-RTL synthesis.

12/18/2008 Power Opto and Linting in Catapult C and Spyglass:

Dale Polleck from Atrenta talks about using Spyglass with Catapult C

12/18/2008 Using Calypto SLEC in a Catapult C design Flow:

Duncan Mackay from calypto writes about using Formal Sequential Logic Equivalency Checking.

11/20/2008 The first US-based C/C++ chip design I’ve seen

A user writes about their experiences with Catapult C Synthesis technology

10/29/2008 George is wrong; SystemC/C++ tools play nicely with each other

Responses to the SystemC vs C++ vs BSV proprietary solutions allegations.

9/18/2008 Forte Cynthesizer, Mentor Catapult C, Target, Imperas

Users answering John’s call: "What were the 1 or 2 or 3 INTERESTING specific tools that you saw at DAC this year? WHY were they interesting to you?”

5/08/2008 Troublemaker’s Panel

A Video panel of EDA commentators discus numerous topics of interest