MIPS Technologies Becomes Charter Member of RDL Alliance
December 15 2005 - 6:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Joins Denali, Mentor, and Rambus in Program to Standardize Use of
Register Description Language for Design and Delivery of IP
Products MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
MIPS Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ:MIPS) today announced it has joined
the Register Description Language (RDL) Alliance as a charter
member. Formed and chaired by Denali Software, the alliance has
been established to promote standardized usage of RDL in the
development and delivery of select intellectual property (IP)
products used in system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Configuration
registers store key parameters that define the operation of the
chips, and are required by system architects, hardware developers,
and software engineers to develop end products. IP providers and
system developers benefit from the alliance by having a common,
consistent, computer-readable specification of these registers --
which ultimately speeds architecture, design, verification, and
documentation for semiconductor chip designs. "Standardization of
register descriptions in our industry is a key requirement, and
long overdue, so we are pleased to be part of this leading-edge
consortium," said Mike Uhler, chief technology officer at MIPS
Technologies. "The RDL Alliance provides both a language standard
and the ability to convert the definitions to any representations
required in the hardware or software design process. By shipping
RDL descriptions of processor and system registers with our
hardware and software products, we simplify the design process and
help our customers face the challenges of delivering sophisticated
designs to market in minimum time." "MIPS Technologies is a leading
provider of processor and system solutions, and we're delighted
that MIPS has chosen to join Mentor and Rambus as a founding member
of the RDL Alliance," said Denali CTO Mark Gogolewski. "The RDL
descriptions sent to MIPS Technologies' customers will greatly
simplify the interchange of design components and accelerate SoC
designs. That's good news for the industry." Alliance Benefits for
IP Providers Commercial IP vendors benefit from the alliance in two
key dimensions. For IP development, alliance members gain access to
Denali's Blueprint(TM) product that takes RDL input and
automatically generates documentation, register designs in Verilog
or VHDL, as well as models for verification and software
development. The auto-generation of all necessary register views
through Blueprint provides significant productivity gains for IP
design, and increases overall quality through a
correct-by-construction methodology. Alliance members also benefit
from improved quality and reduced cost for customer support.
Blueprint provides an abstraction layer that insulates customers
from design or architectural changes during IP modifications or
derivative designs. The abstraction layer creates stable
environment for early hardware and software development. Blueprint
also enables IP vendors to auto-generate outputs that support the
various methodologies and 3rd party development tools used by
end-customers. All of these translate into higher-quality support,
and faster turnaround time for integration issues. Alliance
Benefits for IP Consumers The vast number of control registers
found in any complex IP or chip design essentially defines the
software interface to the chip -- and usually represents the
largest portion of the chip specification or programmers guide.
Vendors delivering RDL with their IP products are enabling their
customers with instant access to customizable views of registers
for internal hardware design, software development, and
documentation. This eliminates the tedious and error-prone process
of manually redeveloping register views to conform to internal
requirements from the various development teams. SoC developers
typically integrate multiple IP cores from multiple vendors. The
availability of consistent, high-quality register views speeds
integration of 3rd party IP, increases design efficiency and
reduces the overall cost of IP deployment. About the RDL Alliance
For more information on how to join the RDL Alliance, or how to
benefit from the RDL Alliance community, please visit
http://www.rdl-alliance.org/ or contact Mark Gogolewski at . About
MIPS Technologies, Inc. MIPS Technologies, Inc. is a leading
provider of industry standard processor architectures and cores for
digital consumer and business applications. The company drives the
broadest architectural alliance that is delivering 32- and 64-bit
embedded RISC solutions. The company licenses its intellectual
property to semiconductor companies, ASIC developers, and system
OEMs. MIPS Technologies, Inc. and its licensees offer the widest
range of robust, scalable processors in standard, custom,
semi-custom and application-specific products. MIPS Technologies,
Inc. is based in Mountain View, California, and can be reached at
650-567-5000 or http://www.mips.com/. DATASOURCE: MIPS
Technologies, Inc. CONTACT: Cathy Browne of MIPS Technologies,
Inc., +1-650-567-5178, or Web site: http://www.rdl-alliance.org/
Web site: http://www.mips.com/
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