EDA leaders support MIPS 74K core family

By Colleen Taylor, Contributing Editor -- 6/5/2007

Processor architectures and cores provider MIPS Technologies Inc. has scored support for its latest core family from the EDA industry's heaviest hitters.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company announced during the Design Automation Conference that EDA industry leaders Cadence Design Systems, Magma Design Automation, Mentor Graphics and Synopsys Inc.  will team with the company to provide EDA software and tools support for its new high-performance MIPS32 74K core family.

MIPS Technologies announced its next-generation 32-bit processor family last month as the industry's first fully synthesizable processors to surpass 1GHz operating frequencies in TSMC's 65-nm process technology. The company touts the 74K family as its highest-performance, single-threaded, fully synthesizable core family that is designed to work with generic standard cells, memories and back-end EDA design flows.

Cadence, Magma, Mentor and Synopsys each now offer a complete suite of back-end design tools that allows SoC developers to implement physical designs and validate the correctness of each implementation, MIPS said Tuesday.

"This is great news for our customers. Not only does our go-to-market strategy for the 74K core continue to include MIPS' robust ecosystem of standard tools, software and hardware, but our customers can be assured of rapid, reliable and first-rate industry support for their SoC design initiatives," Jack Browne, VP of marketing at MIPS, said in a statement. "We're delighted to align with our partners to offer an enhanced level of support with best-in-class EDA solutions optimized for our industry-leading 74K cores."

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