( ESNUG 326 Item 6 ) ---------------------------------------------- [8/25/99]
Subject: Intel Using Mentor's Monet Behavioral Synthesis For Real Designs
> Two years ago, at DAC'97, behavioral tools seemed to be the wave of the
> future at that time. A number of companies there presented some sort of
> behavioral this or behavioral that, with the leader being the Synopsys
> Behavioral Compiler (BC). But, what was even more interesting at that DAC
> was a true architectural exploration tool from Mentor called 'Monet' that
> rode on top of BC. Monet was a cool tool that looked really neat in its
> demo; it ran quickly and didn't have 1/100th of the painful complexity
> that awkward Behavioral Compiler had. If I had written a DAC Trip Report
> that year, I would have given Monet first prize.
>
> - John Cooley in "The $86,250 Question"
From: [ The Walls Have Ears ]
John,
I just read your "The $86,250 question" column in this week's EE Times. I
won't say how I know this, but I know that the server chipset group for
Intel in Portland is using Monet as a front-end to get synthesizable VHDL
for the chipset to go with McKinley. I also know that they are still in
the coding and early behavioral debug stage. Just FYI to add to your quest
for info. (I'd like to keep this info as being from an anon source, if you
don't mind.)
- [ The Walls Have Ears ]
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