Forte Design Systems, Inc. Forte is a provider of high-level synthesis

High-level synthesis

High-level synthesis , sometimes referred to as C synthesis, electronic system level synthesis, algorithmic synthesis, or behavioral synthesis, is an automated design process that interprets an algorithmic description of a desired behavior and creates hardware that implements that behavior. The...

 software products, also known as ESL (electronic system level

Electronic system level

Electronic system level design and verification is an emerging electronic design methodology that focuses on the higher abstraction level concerns first and foremost. The term Electronic System Level or ESL Design was first defined by Gartner Dataquest, a EDA-industry-analysis firm, on February...

) synthesis or behavioral synthesis that enable design at a higher level of abstraction. Forte's main product is Cynthesizer.

History

The company was founded in 1998 as C2 Design Automation by John Sanguinetti and a team of engineers. In 2000, it merged with Chronology (founded in 1990) to become Forte Design Systems.

Management team

• Sean Dart, President and Chief Executive Officer
• John Sanguinetti, CTO and Founder
• Brett Cline, VP of Marketing and Sales
• Mike Meredith, VP of Technical Marketing

Product

Cynthesizer is a high-level synthesis

High-level synthesis

High-level synthesis , sometimes referred to as C synthesis, electronic system level synthesis, algorithmic synthesis, or behavioral synthesis, is an automated design process that interprets an algorithmic description of a desired behavior and creates hardware that implements that behavior. The...

 product that allows design teams to create complex electronic systems using ASICs

ASICS

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, FPGAs and SoCs

System-on-a-chip

A system on a chip or system on chip is an integrated circuit that integrates all components of a computer or other electronic system into a single chip. It may contain digital, analog, mixed-signal, and often radio-frequency functions—all on a single chip substrate...

 from algorithmic designs. Cynthesizer takes high-level SystemC

SystemC

SystemC is a set of C++ classes and macros which provide an event-driven simulation kernel in C++ . These facilities enable a designer to simulate concurrent processes, each described using plain C++ syntax...

 description and automatically creates Verilog

Verilog

In the semiconductor and electronic design industry, Verilog is a hardware description language used to model electronic systems. Verilog HDL, not to be confused with VHDL , is most commonly used in the design, verification, and implementation of digital logic chips at the register-transfer level...

RTL code. Designers can use Cynthesizer to automatically build designs with custom interfaces and architectural requirements, retarget designs to new speeds and process technologies without code changes and supports derivative designs and reuse.