Testimonies

NXP

"A strong ASIP design flow is critical to gain a competitive engineering advantage in cost, performance and power of reconfigurable radio architectures. Target..." READ MORE >>

Liesbet Van der Perre, IMEC

NXP

"The addition of 2D graphics support to our new Green VoIP chip will enable our customers to add intuitive color touch-screens to their VoIP products. Ultra-low power and small area..." READ MORE >>

René Kohlmann, Dialog Semiconductor

NXP

"The immediate availability of an optimized, targeted C-compiler for each candidate DSP architecture is a key benefit of Target’s IP Designer product. With that, we are able...." READ MORE >>

Alan Gatherer, Huawei Technologies

NXP

"Our team’s objective is to define optimal DSP architectures for use in Huawei’s basestation products. To do so, we evaluate various architectures under real-world load..." READ MORE >>

Alan Gatherer, Huawei Technologies

NXP

"We were truly impressed by the capabilities of Target’s MP Designer tool. Using this new tool, a single-core implementation of our software-defined digital FM demodulator system...." READ MORE >>

Johan Van Ginderdeuren, NXP Semiconductors

NXP

"To support the industry’s search for increased flexibility and reliability for their next-generation wireless devices, IMEC’s green radio program aims at developing solutions ...." READ MORE >>

Liesbet Van der Perre, IMEC

NXP

"We found Target to be an undeniable asset during development. Their approach to support made us feel as if we had an extended team focused on compiler development and...." READ MORE >>

Ali Osman Ors, CogniVue Corporation

NXP

"Target’s IP Designer offering is unique in that it generates both the RTL and the complete SDK for our parallel processing core from a single design description. Such automation...." READ MORE >>

Ali Osman Ors, CogniVue Corporation

NXP

"Our objective is to deliver a programmable processor product in the smart-imaging/video-processing market that reproduces the success of the GPU in the graphics market. In...." READ MORE >>

Simon Morris, CogniVue Corporation

NXP

"The efficiency of Target’s C compiler allowed us to nearly eliminate assembly coding, which will help accelerate our time to market objectives. We were impressed by the level of...." READ MORE >>

Sverrir Olafsson, Conexant Systems

NXP

"We needed optimized DSP IP cores for our next generation product lines, and we evaluated multiple avenues to address this need. IP Designer from Target Compiler Technologies ...." READ MORE >>

Sverrir Olafsson, Conexant Systems

NXP

"Innovation and time to market are crucial for GN Resound. Using Target's IP Designer tool-suite with its excellent C compiler technology, we have been able to develop...." READ MORE >>

Brian Dam Pedersen, GN ReSound

NXP

"SiTel strives to create state-of-the-art chipsets for the cordless telephony and VoIP markets that deliver outstanding audio quality and performance while minimizing...." READ MORE >>

Mark De Clercq, SiTel Semiconductor

NXP

"With Target’s IP Programmer SDK, our customers can program our latest automotive microprocessor in C in a cost-effective way, generating denser code in a much shorter time..." READ MORE >>

Volker Graeger, NXP Semiconductors

"With Target’s IP Designer we are able to continue being the innovator of hearing solutions achieving still higher user satisfaction and acceptance. Today’s hearing innovations..." READ MORE >>

Peter Ulrik Scheel, GN ReSound

NXP

"We have been using Target's ASIP design tools since 2002, in multiple projects and in different application domains including the creation of various targeted..." READ MORE >>

Johan Van Ginderdeuren, NXP Semiconductors

ETRI

"The code quality produced by Target's C compiler is truly impressive. Our DSP has a specialized architecture with tight constraints on the allowed..." READ MORE >>

Young-Su Kwon, ETRI

ETRI

"Our previous DSP architecture lacked a commercially supported SDK. For our new EMP core, we needed a high-quality SDK with an excellent C compiler..." READ MORE >>

Bon-Tae Koo, ETRI

Silicon Labs

"Target's IP Designer offers a way to build SoCs that enables both design efficiency and flexibility. With IP Designer we can get new products to market more..." READ MORE >>

Mark Thompson, Silicon Laboratories

Sound Design

"Programmability is a key enabler in the wearable medical device market. Our programmable DSP platforms are used by our customers to build differentiated product..." READ MORE >>

Dan Carlson, Sound Design Technologies

Sound Design

"Wearable medical devices, such as hearing instruments, are extremely power sensitive and also have very demanding processing requirements. The power-reducing options..." READ MORE >>

Sean Lord, Sound Design Technologies

Sensata

"IP Designer's capability to define highly specialized datapath architectures provides very compelling algorithmic efficiency. Honestly, the only other alternative was to..." READ MORE >>

Jean-Pierre Giacalone, Sensata Technologies

Sensata

"Flexibility is a key enabler for our business. While metrics on performance, power dissipation and cost must meet stringent requirements in order to deliver..." READ MORE >>

Jean-Pierre Giacalone, Sensata Technologies

Olympus

"We consider ASIPs as an ideal solution to meet the performance, power, and flexibility requirements of our next-generation chips. We had an important need for efficient EDA..." READ MORE >>

Shohei Okamura, Olympus Digital System Design Corp

Olympus

"We have especially been impressed with Target’s optimising C compiler technology for ASIPs. Target’s C compiler can efficiently exploit the vector processing capabilities..." READ MORE >>

Takashi Hirano, Olympus Digital System Design Corp

IMEC

"We benchmarked Target's Chess/Checkers tools and found that the resulting ASIPs have power efficiencies comparable to fixed-function hardware while still offering post-silicon..." READ MORE >>

Bert Gyselinckx, IMEC-NL/Holst Centre

Brightscale

"With the impressive efficiency of Target's tools, we were able to build a video processing architecture that competes with hard-coded solutions while preserving programmability..." READ MORE >>

Dave Corbin, BrightScale

Sound Design

"I've been using Target Compiler's tools to develop custom application specific cores for almost 5 years. I consider them to be a mature tool now. We have 4 custom processors..." READ MORE >>

Benton Watson, Sound Design Technologies

Gennum

"I've been using Target Compiler's Chess/Checkers tool set for a year and a half now. In the past I designed DSP processor cores by hand... RTL coding, and it took 5-6 designers and..." READ MORE >>

Tom Skrzeszewski, Gennum Corporation

Atmel

"After an evaluation of different compiler solutions, we selected the Chess/Checkers technology of Target. In the first phase we used Target's nML processor description language..." READ MORE >>

Benedetto Altieri, Atmel Corporation

Atmel

"Target's C compiler offers advanced optimizations like pointer disambiguation and software pipelining, which are very beneficial to exploit the instruction-level parallelism of VLIW architectures."

Pier Stanislao Paolucci, Atmel Corporation

Atmel

"Benchmark tests revealed that the execution time of the machine code generated by Target's C compiler is very close to the optimal solution for our DSP architecture..." READ MORE >>

Andrea Ricciardi, Atmel Corporation

Texas Instruments

"Creating next generation signal processing systems for multi-media or modem applications that support multiple standards on the same architecture requires flexibility for..." READ MORE >>

Jean-Pierre Giacalone, Texas Instruments

Sitel

"In our first project, SiTel's existing GenDSP was described in Target's processor modelling language nML. A complete set of software development tools was available in..." READ MORE >>

René Kohlmann, SiTel Semiconductor

Olympus

"We needed an efficient retargetable tool-suite as our basic infrastructure for designing novel multi-media accelerators. Next generation multi-media systems not only..." READ MORE >>

Hidetaka Takagi, Olympus Digital System Design Corp

Olympus

"We evaluated several commercially available retargetable tool-suites. We found Chess/Checkers to be the only solution that provided excellent support for digital signal..." READ MORE >>

Takashi Hirano, Olympus Digital System Design Corp

NXP

"We wanted our new DSP to outperform other solutions, not only in terms of power consumption and cost, but by offering very efficient C programmability at the same time..." READ MORE >>

Johan Van Ginderdeuren, NXP Semiconductors

NXP

"Target's compiler offered an evaluation phase of Checkmate, by providing us a C compiler for our architecture, which we used for benchmarking against our existing solution..." READ MORE >>

Matthias Weiss, NXP Semiconductors

NXP

"We were very impressed that for our general purpose DSP architecture, Chess was able to exploit the full 8 levels of instruction level parallelism (ILP) for many loop..." READ MORE >>

Johan David, NXP Semiconductors

NXP

"The tool chain for the Epics7B architecture has been developed by the company Target Compiler Technologies in Belgium and features the following tools: C-compiler..." READ MORE >>

Ron Schiffelers, NXP Semiconductors

NXP

"Target Compiler Technologies' software and high level System-C DSP model enables us to do pre-silicon architectural exploration and software development of our multi DSP core SoCs."

Jos van der Peet, NXP Semiconductors

Gennum

"We wanted to design the best-in-class performance microprocessor and DSP cores for our specific type of application. Our aggressive schedules required us to perform..." READ MORE >>

Don Shaver, Gennum Corporation

Sound Design

"Once we had the base architectures of Yukon and our new DSP core described in nML, we were able to quickly perform architectural enhancements to find the..." READ MORE >>

Dennis Mitchler, Sound Design Technologies

ST

"To reduce the risk involved and to accelerate the development time, we needed a more flexible, programmable ADSL solution. Target Compiler Technologies provided..." READ MORE >>

Leon Cloetens, ST Microelectronics

ST

"The tool set allowed extensive use of co-simulation to perform hardware validation based on the same System C code compiled in the system model. We could correlate..." READ MORE >>

Laurent Dawance, ST Microelectronics

Freescale

"A key enabler to our solution is the use of a retargetable compiler such as Chess, which allows fast analysis of, and improvements to, a chosen ISA, followed by a fast..." READ MORE >>

Werner De Rammelaere, Freescale Semiconductor

 

News

Imec and Target Present Multi-Standard Low-Power LDPC Engine for Multi-Gbps Wireless Communication

Huawei Adopts Target’s IP Designer Tool-Suite to Build Next-Generation Baseband DSP

Target’s IP Designer Tool-Suite Adopted by Dialog Semiconductor to Create OpenVG Graphics Processor Core

Products/Technology

IP Designer
A retargetable tool-suite
for ASIP design
IP Programmer
Efficient SDKs for
ASIP-based SoCs
ASIP Modeling Services
Support services to develop nML processor models for IP Designer and IP Programmer
MP Designer
Multicore parallelization and platform generation

SPRING 2013 EVENTS

 

  • Mobile World Congress
    Barcelona, Feb. 25-28
  • Embedded World
    Nuremberg, Feb. 26-28
  • CDNLive Silicon Valley
    Santa Clara, Mar. 12
  • Design Automation & Test in Europe
    Grenoble, Mar. 19-21
  • SNUG Silicon Valley
    Santa Clara, Mar. 26
  • Linley Mobile Conf.
    Santa Clara, Apr. 17-18
  • Design West
    San Jose, Apr. 23-25
  • ChipEx
    Tel Aviv, May 1
  • Embedded Systems Expo
    Tokyo, May 8-10
  • Multicore DevCon
    Santa Clara, May 21-22
  • Design Automation Conf.
    Austin, June 3-5

TARGET IS HIRING

 

We are looking for enthusiastic engineers to expand our teams in Leuven, Belgium, and Boulder, Colorado. Check out our career pages for details.