CDT Selects Semifore for Control Registers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 15, 2007 (medianowonline)- After a thorough evaluation, CDT has selected Semifore's CSR Product Suite to assist in the design and verification of their next generation of TMA (Total Matrix Addressing) displays.
"We used Semifore's CSR product suite for our latest design, which has over 50 control registers. Semifore saves our development team time since we only have to specify the registers once. The register decode Verilog, all of the C headers, and the documentation are generated automatically, and are always in sync with each other," said David Warren, hardware design engineer at Cambridge Display Technology.
"Semifore has extensive experience helping companies manage and build configuration registers," said Richard Weber, chief executive office of Semifore. "The address map of current SOC designs has reached a level of complexity which renders its specification and subsequent modification prohibitively expensive if the hardware, software, verification, and technical publication teams must independently manage and transform this information to finish the product."
CSRSpec is the next-generation language with a powerful set of features that include:
-- Hierarchical address map specification: arrays of objects, groups of CSRs
-- Reusable templates for configurable IP blocks
-- Object oriented architecture
CSRCompiler generates hardware, software, and documentation views:
-- Verilog or VHDL RTL and headers
-- C or Perl headers for firmware
-- HTML web pages for design team
-- Framemaker or Word for internal and customer documentation
-- Spirit IP-XACT XML

About Semifore
Semifore provides address maps for both new and legacy designs. For legacy designs we offer design services to import your existing register maps into CSR Spec. We can do this on a case-by-case basis, or fully-automate the process depending upon your needs. We offer both design services and license CSR Compiler on an annual basis for your use on-site. Our single web-based source for your address map provides RTL, C and design documents views. Semifore provides accurate address maps as the design evolves. Semifore Inc. was founded in 2006 to provide accurate specifications across functional teams. More information on Semifore can be found at: www.semifore.com

About CDT

Cambridge Display Technology is a pioneer in the development of polymer organic light emitting diodes (POLEDs) and their use in a wide range of electronic display products used for information management, communications and entertainment. POLEDs are part of the family of OLEDs, which are thin, lightweight and power efficient devices that emit light when an electric current flows. POLEDs offer an enhanced visual experience and superior performance characteristics compared with other flat panel display technologies such as liquid crystal displays, and have the key advantage that they can be applied in solution using printing processes. Founded in 1992, the company is headquartered in Cambridge, UK and listed on the US NASDAQ National Market. In 2005, CDT and Sumitomo Chemical established a joint venture called Sumation which develops, manufactures and sells P-OLED materials to the display industry. More information on CDT can be found at: www.cdtltd.co.uk