| "How can I better master complexity in my project?" |
System-level design (SLD) takes your teams to a higher abstraction level where complexity is easier to dominate.
CoFluent Studio's top-down approach facilitates problems resolution by breaking-out complexity domains and guiding designers through an incremental process, avoiding direct confrontation against the whole and inhibiting system complexity. |
| "How can I improve my team's productivity?" |
By adopting a complete, consistent and comprehensive methodology made transparent to the users by the associated tools, you systematize design flows and develop more effectively.
The co-design approach links system architects to developers and bridges the gap between hardware and software teams. CoFluent Studio enables hardware and software developments to take place simultaneously. Software engineers can use a virtual prototype of the system as application programming platform and don't have to wait for the availability of final hardware.
C code is automatically generated for implementation of the software application on a real-time operating system. |
| "How can I improve communications and documentation within my project?" |
Models created with CoFluent Studio represent a common basis for discussions between customers, designers and implementers. They are used as a translation of the system specifications and as specifications for further hardware and software developments. They act as the missing link between specifications and code that is so often the source of major problems in projects.
In addition, graphical representations facilitate documentation of a project. Their intuitive concepts ease the understanding of a design solution. Using CoFluent Studio can help, for example, new engineers joining the team get up-to-speed more quickly. It can be used also in a reverse-engineering process in order to document the structure of an existing system. |
| "How can I optimize designs and reduce costs?" |
With CoFluent Studio, designers define different architectural choices, explore the design space and execute "what-if" scenarios to find the optimal architecture.
Co-simulation enables developers to evaluate system performances (execution times, resources utilization, communications latencies and throughput) and find the optimal hardware/software partitioning and system dimensioning that delivers on technical and economical expectations. |
| "How can I mitigate risks in my project?" |
The whole point is to test and verify designs as early as possible during the design process and get to the highest confidence level possible before manufacturing.
With CoFluent Studio, developers create executable and verifiable models very early on the project and, thanks to the simple graphical notations and intuitive concepts used, verify with customers/final users that the system behaves and delivers results in conformity to their expectations. |
| "How can I manage change during my project?" |
| CoFluent Studio's separation of the logical (functional) and physical (executive structure) parts of a system ("Y" design flow) introduces flexibility in the system's architecture. Corrections and evolutions in either part are facilitated: functional updates only require a new mapping and verification on the existing hardware while the impact of a change in the hardware is easily analyzed. |
| "How can I spend my resources on innovation rather than re-inventing the wheel?" |
Thanks to CoFluent Studio's automatic code generation, coding and debugging time are reduced. Designers spend their time and dedicate their experience and creativity to the design activity.
CoFluent Studio provides intuitive and powerful technology- and language-independent notations specially designed for system-level hardware/software co-design and real-time systems. It unleashes creativity and free designers from any limitations.
CoFluent Studio was built with IP reuse and capitalization in mind from the start. Software and hardware IP components are easily imported and created. |
| "How can I improve the management of my team and project?" |
CoFluent Studio integrates projects and tools management utilities that enable you to:
- Create and configure multiple projects;
- Define roles of users in each project team;
- Customize and configure design and tools workflow for each user in each team. |
| "What's my return on investment?" |
Thanks to its intuitive tools and concepts that minimize developers' learning curve, thanks to productivity gains and risks limitations, CoFluent Studio yields positive return on investment (ROI) from the first project.
ROI is even stronger on next projects as expertise on tools and methodology grows. |
