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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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Vincent Perrier, CoFluent Design Phone:
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Todd Keefe, For Immediate Release PR (for No Magic, Inc.) Phone: +617 262 1968
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CoFluent Design and No Magic Deliver
The World's First Industrial Grade UML To SystemC Solution
For Multicore System Simulation
The combination of MagicDraw UML Modeler
and CoFluent Studio SystemC-based simulation environment offers an integrated
solution for executing use cases and analyzing the performance of multicore
real-time embedded systems
Paris, France and Plano,
Texas – FEBRUARY 17, 2010 – CoFluent Design™, a leading Electronic System Level (ESL)
company that provides system-level modeling and simulation to accelerate
innovation in embedded devices, and No Magic, Inc., the
leading global provider of integrated modeling software and services, today announced that
they have initiated a partnership agreement to integrate the MagicDraw UML
(Unified Modeling Language) modeler with the CoFluent Studio embedded system
modeling and SystemC-based simulation environment.
In a separate press
release, CoFluent Design has announced the development of the CoFluent
methodology for UML. By combining No Magic's SysML (System Modeling Language)
and MARTE (Modeling and Analysis for Real-Time and Embedded Systems) profile,
the methodology allows designers of embedded systems and chips to describe in a
comprehensive way models of real-time embedded applications and use cases, and
represent their execution on multiprocessor/multicore platforms.
MagicDraw offers support
for the CoFluent methodology through a dedicated plug-in option. With this
optional product addition, CoFluent Studio users can choose UML as their
modeling language and import MagicDraw projects. They can also integrate
MagicDraw into CoFluent Studio as an Eclipse plug-in for using a unified
modeling and simulation environment. CoFluent Studio converts UML models into
executable SystemC code. As the generated SystemC code is instrumented,
execution traces can be analyzed with CoFluent Studio monitoring tools, so
designers can predict the behavior, and the real-time performance properties of
their embedded system models.
"By adopting No Magic's
SysML and MARTE, CoFluent Design offers the UML community a way to execute
their embedded system models and predict their behavior and performance," said
Stéphane Leclercq, Chief Executive Officer of CoFluent Design. "Our
collaboration with No Magic, driven by a major actor in the mobile terminal
market, was natural as our offerings and expertise domains are complementary.
We are really excited about paving a new way in the embedded industry with a
leading UML modeling tool provider like No Magic," added Stéphane Leclercq.
"The embedded systems
industry has always been important to No Magic, and by partnering with
CoFluent, we're able to enhance productivity by bringing a more structured and repeatable design
process to the embedded community, which was previously missing from industry
solutions," said Gary Duncanson, CEO of No Magic, Inc. "Our partnership
with CoFluent Design is a win-win proposition, because our technologies enhance
one another; they serve the same customer and prospect base; and our business
philosophies are well-aligned. We're looking forward to a long and prosperous
partnership together."
A white paper describing
the CoFluent methodology for UML is freely available for download from CoFluent
Design's website. CoFluent Studio version 3.2 with support for MagicDraw 16.5
and 16.6 is already in beta test with customers, and is expected to be
generally available by April of this year. CoFluent Design customers can add
MagicDraw and the required plug-ins, and MagicDraw customers can purchase
CoFluent Studio and plug-ins. CoFluent Studio and MagicDraw can be used as
separate environments or as a single integrated environment. Commercial bundles
of both products are also available from CoFluent Design and No Magic.
CoFluent Design will
exhibit at Embedded World 2010 in Nuremberg, Germany, on March 2-4, 2010, where
a pre-release of the CoFluent Studio-MagicDraw integration will be
demonstrated. CoFluent Design will also exhibit at the ESC (Embedded Systems
Conference) Silicon Valley in San Jose, California, on April 26-29, 2010.
About CoFluent Design
CoFluent Design™ provides
system-level modeling and simulation tools for executing use cases and
analyzing performance of embedded devices and chips. CoFluent Studio™ generates
SystemC transactional models from UML diagrams and standard C that describe complex
multi-OS, multicore embedded systems. CoFluent Reader™ enables efficient
exchange of executable specifications with all project stakeholders and
contractors.
CoFluent is used
throughout the product development lifecycle for:
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Innovation: capturing with minimal
effort the design intent in reusable models that mix new features and legacy,
allowing for early patent application
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Optimization: finding the optimal
architecture and power efficiency through design space exploration free of the
full hardware/software code
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Validation: defining use case
scenarios for validating the real-time behavior, predicting performance and
generating test cases for implementation
For further details
please visit: http://www.cofluentdesign.com or send an email to info@cofluentdesign.com.
No Magic, a leading
provider of business process and architecture modeling software with its
MagicDraw® product line, supports the full life-cycle from the
requirement and planning process through final testing with award-winning, OMG
standards-compliant software that quickly architects and models your
organizational structure, business processes, applications, information, and
technology. MagicDraw® supports multiple domain-specific models
including UML®, BPMN, SysML, DoDAF/MODAF/UPDM, MDA, unit testing,
data modeling and more. Service offerings include training, consulting, and
custom applications, and product customization for any part of the MagicDraw®
suite of tools such as custom modeling domain diagrams, requirements
management, team collaboration, design, and analysis.
Founded in 1995, No Magic
Inc. is headquartered in Plano, Texas with operations worldwide. Further
information on No Magic can be found at www.nomagic.com.
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