“2012 was a breakout year for Carbon in multiple ways,” comments Rick Lucier, Carbon’s president and chief executive officer (CEO), who cites a number of factors, including Samsung’s investment and partnership that enabled new technology developments. “Additionally, we’ve seen a strong uptick in demand from design teams seeking virtual prototypes with a connection to accuracy. Our 100% accurate models give us the unique capability to solve this growing demand, while also offering the capability to execute that same virtual prototype at the speeds needed by software developers.”
Samsung’s strategic investment has been used as working capital and supports Carbon’s ongoing development of leading tools in the electronic system level (ESL) design space, including its fast, accurate virtual prototypes.
CPAKs, packaged with bare-metal and O/S software to enable rapid user productivity, cut the time needed to be productive with virtual prototypes to minutes. More than 30 CPAKs are available from Carbon’s IP Exchange web portal and feature intellectual property (IP) cores from Carbon partners ARM, Arteris, MIPS and Cadence.