Forte Design Systems
| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | 1 January 2001  |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, USA |
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| Website | www |
Forte Design Systems, Inc. is a San Jose, CA, based provider of high-level synthesis (HLS) software products, also known as electronic system-level (ESL) synthesis or behavioral synthesis that enable design at a higher level of abstraction[clarification needed]. Forte's main product is Cynthesizer. It was announced on February 5, 2014 that it had entered into an agreement to be acquired by Cadence Design Systems[1]. The acquisition was finalized on February 14, 2014. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
History
The company was founded in 1998 as C2 Design Automation by John Sanguinetti, Andy Goodrich and Randy Allen. A year later the company changed its name to CynApps and began selling C-based synthesis and RTL translation tools. It also created an open-source C++ class library called Cynlib, which competed with SystemC. In 2000, CynApps acquired Dasys, a Pittsburgh-based maker of behavioral synthesis tools. In 2001, CynApps merged with Chronology (founded in Redmond, WA, in 1990) to become Forte Design Systems. Forte began selling Cynthesizer, a SystemC-based high-level synthesis tool, which had its first successful tapeout in 2002. On February 14, 2014, Forte was acquired by Cadence Design Systems.
Management team
- Sean Dart, President and Chief Executive Officer
- John Sanguinetti, CTO and Founder
- Brett Cline, VP of Marketing and Sales
- Mike Meredith, VP of Technical Marketing
Product
 | This section contains promotional content. (January 2010) |
Cynthesizer is a high-level synthesis product that allows design teams to create complex electronic systems using ASICs, FPGAs and SoCs from algorithmic designs. Cynthesizer takes a high-level SystemC description and automatically creates Verilog RTL code. Designers can use Cynthesizer to automatically build designs with custom interfaces and architectural requirements, retarget designs to new speeds and process technologies without code changes and supports derivative designs and reuse.
References
- ^ Cadence press release: Cadence to Enhance High-Level Synthesis Offering with Acquisition of Forte Design Systems
- "Hardware design and levels of abstraction", EETimes 2007.
- "Forte Design Systems' Forte", EDA Café 2006.
- "Got system-level synthesis?", EEDesign 2005.