Imagination Technologies Licenses Forte’s CellMath IP and Tools

Imagination uses Forte’s CellMath Optimizer to help enable its licensing partners to optimize silicon efficiency and performance in their target process technology. As part of this latest agreement, Imagination will manage all distribution and support of the Forte tools for all its licensees.

“Forte’s CellMath tools and IP are a small but significant part of our POWERVR SGX and VGX IP deliverables,” says Martin Ashton, vice president of engineering for POWERVR visual IP cores at Imagination. “The change in licensing and responsibilities will enable us to provide a better IP delivery and support service as part of our commitment to provide a one-stop total solution for SoC IP for our customers.”

“Imagination Technologies has proven that high-quality design IP is an essential part of SoC design,” adds Sean Dart, president and chief executive officer of Forte Design Systems. “Its leading-edge graphics processors and well-deserving reputation makes us proud to have our tools as a component of its design flow.”

Forte’s CellMath Designer™ datapath synthesis and CellMath IP software enables designers working at the register transfer level (RTL) to reduce area, improve performance and lower power consumption.

The CellMath Floating Point IP library contains highly optimized floating point architectures that can be configured for the needed bit widths or rounding modes. Floating point implementations can be configured with IEEE precision or with reduced precision for graphics or other applications where smaller, faster implementations are required. Available functions include adders, multipliers, dividers, square root, dot-product, reciprocal square root, exponential and logarithm. The library also contains multi-function parts that can produce any of these floating point functions using shared resources to reduce the combined area.