Montreal, Quebec, Canada; March 7, 2011
Space Codesign Systems Inc., a leading edge startup in electronic system level (ESL) design technology, is proud to announce that it has signed a contribution agreement of up to $157,000, (for a global project up to $300,000) in addition to both technical and business oriented advisory services, with the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP).

"Space Codesign is grateful to the National Research Council for this award," said Guy Bois, Ph.D., CEO and President, "This financial assistance enables our startup company to install the results of recent research work from Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal as well as support for new industry standards, such as TLM-2.0 and IEEE 1685 (IP-XACT), into our product platform, Space Studio. As a result of this program, Space Codesign is in the process of releasing the most advanced computer-aided design software for creating complex and sophisticated embedded computing systems, which consist of both electronic hardware and software."

About Space Codesign: Space Codesign is provider of Space Studio computer-aided design software for hardware/software codesign in ESL (Electronic System Level), enabling rapid prototyping and creation of both hardware and software for embedded systems.

(Space Codesign is registered trademarks/trademarks of Space Codesign Systems, Inc. All other company or product names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owner.)

For more information, please contact:
Gary Dare
Space Codesign
+1-514-985-5255
gary.dare@spacecodesign.com

Often referred to as an Architect's workbench, the Space Studio Tool Suite proposes state-of-the-art features including electronic system-level design and simulation, architectural exploration, system-level partitioning and component mapping, debugging, monitoring and system generation into a single development environment.

The new release of the Space Studio Tool Suite (version 1.6) performs a Hw/Sw co-synthesis process in 3 steps:

1. Embedded Software generation done automatically by Space Studio (including the RTOS generation)
2. Hardware synthesis of user processes achieved inside Space Studio through an interface with Catapult from Mentor Graphics that transforms timed functional models into fully timed RTL models.
3. Communication synthesis done automatically by Space Studio

Do not miss this year at DAC 2010 a user track paper showing the potential of combining Space Studio and Catapult:

A. Dion, E. Boutillon, V. Calmettes, E. Liegon, Hardware/Software Co-Design Experience for Onboard Satellite Navigation Receiver

This chapter untitled "Codesign Experiences Based on a Virtual Platform" presents the Space Codesign methodology based on four main steps: system specification, exploration, analysis, and integration. All these features are illustrated through the JPEG decoder application by refining its specification from reference code to an implementation