At today’s opening of the DATE conference, IMEC announced that it has extended collaborations with CoWare while adding Arteris and Mentor Graphics to its multi-mode multi-media (M4) R&D programme.

The aim of the programme is to create design concepts and a practical hardware and software and verification multi-processor platform running software-defined radio and multimedia codec technology.

According to IMEC, M4-based terminals will adapt automatically to their surroundings for multimedia services.

The project uses CoWare’s platform-based ESL design with IMEC’s software tools to define integrated design flows for multi-standard wireless and multi-media platforms based on multi-processor systems on chips (SoCs). 

Rudy Lauwereins

“With Arteris, CoWare and Mentor joining our M4 program, IMEC is creating an open research platform where leading companies developing embedded systems or services for ambient intelligence jointly tackle the research challenges by tight research cooperation,” said Rudy Lauwereins, v-p design technology for comms systems at IMEC.

The collaboration with Arteris will create M4 on-chip communication infrastructure for multi-format multimedia devices, handling high bandwidth traffic in multiple-processors platform.

The newly established collaboration with Mentor Graphics gives IMEC access to emulation technology for faster design verification.

“The IMEC M4 programme is an ideal application for the Arteris Network on Chip(NoC) approach as it requires leading-edge performance, scalability and the ability to quickly and efficiently integrate and re-use IP from multiple sources,” said Charlie Janac, Arteris chairman and CEO.

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