"We evaluated several commercially available retargetable tool-suites. We found Chess/Checkers to be the only solution that provided excellent support for digital signal processing functions. Moreover, we were pleased with the high quality of support offered by Target and by its Japanese agent Innotech.”
Our next generation chip will contain a variety of processor cores, ranging from small application-specific micro-controllers up to parallel accelerators with vector processing capabilities and digital signal processing functions. We were impressed by the ability to model such a wide variety of architectures in Target's processor description language nML, and to quickly obtain efficient tool support for architecture exploration, optimised compilation and embedded software development, multi-processor simulation and debugging, and Verilog generation. The availability of a single retargetable tool-suite supporting these different cores, will be a strong asset for our new platform."
Takashi Hirano
Olympus Digital System Design Corp
Tokyo, Japan