Calypto acquires Mentor's Catapult C - EE Times

SAN FRANCISCO—In a surprise deal that brings together two of the leading electronic system level (ESL) design software products, Calypto Design Systems Inc. said Friday (Aug. 26) it acquired Catapult C Synthesis from Mentor Graphics Corp. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Calypto (Santa Clara, Calif.) said the combination of Catapult C with Calypto's SLEC System-HLS verification tool will create a better integrated ESL hardware realization flow and enhance the company's partnership with Mentor.

"This is a great deal for Calypto," said Gary Smith, chief analyst at Gary Smith EDA, in a statement issued by Calypto. "They are clearly one of the companies on the rise in ESL, and this gives them the chance to offer a compelling power-optimized C to RTL flow if they can integrate all the pieces."

Doug Aitelli, Calypto's CEO, said combining C synthesis, sequential verification and power optimization products makes Calypto the first company capable of delivering an integrated flow to support ESL design. Aitelli said Calypto remains fully committed to its existing high-level synthesis partnerships and to industry-wide interoperability.

ESL methodologies, which enable chip designers to work at a higher level of abstraction, has for years been considered the next evolutionary rung in chip design and EDA. Migration to ESL methodologies has been gaining traction, but at a slower pace than many observers had expected.

Brian Derrick, vice president of marketing at Mentor, said Mentor remains deeply committed to ESL. "We view this transaction as an innovative way to accelerate adoption of ESL methodologies, to strengthen our partnership with Calypto, and as one that complements our continued investment in ESL virtual prototyping environments led by our Vista product," Derrick said.

Brett Cline, vice president of sales and marketing for Forte Design Systems Inc., a leading supplier of ESL software, described the Catapult C deal as "yet another example of how the big EDA companies like Mentor cannot afford to continue to give away products for very low prices without taking a hit to their bottom line."

Cline added, "Clearly, Mentor saw the Catapult business losing momentum to the point where the cost savings of moving the employees off of the books to Calypto outweighed the revenue that the product produced."

26 Aug, 2011

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