private headquarters san jose california united states key people sean dart ceo chairman john sanguinetti cto and founder brett cline vp of marketing and sales website www.forteds.com forte design systems inc. is a san jose ca based provider of high level synthesis hls software products also known as electronic system level esl synthesis . forte s main product is cynthesizer . on february 14 2014 forte was acquired by cadence design systems . 1 terms of the transaction were not disclosed . contents 1 history 2 management team 3 product 4 references 5 external links history edit the company was founded in 1998 as c2 design automation by john sanguinetti andy goodrich and randy allen . a year later the company changed its name to cynapps and began selling c based synthesis and rtl translation tools . it also distributed an open source c class library called cynlib which competed with systemc . in 2000 cynapps acquired dasys a pittsburgh based maker of behavioral synthesis tools . in 2001 cynapps merged with chronology founded in redmond wa in 1990 to become forte design systems . forte began selling cynthesizer a systemc based hls tool which had its first successful tapeout in 2002 . in 2009 forte acquired arithmatica whose cellmath designer tool was integrated into cynthesizer . in 2012 and 2013 industry analysts found that cynthesizer was used by 31 % of high level designers the most of any esl tool . management team edit sean dart president and chief executive officer john sanguinetti cto and founder brett cline vp of marketing and sales mike meredith vp of technical marketing product edit cynthesizer is a high level synthesis tool . high level in this context means designers can describe the functionality of a complex electronic system as a pure algorithm in systemc . the designer can then direct cynthesizer to produce a unique hardware architecture that implements the system in a specific number of clock cycles . this replaces the traditional method of using a hardware description language like verilog or vhdl where the designer must manually write out the usage of hardware components in a fixed schedule of clock cycles . if designers want hardware with different performance they can redirect cynthesizer to produce a new architecture that is faster or smaller whereas with the traditional method a completely new design must be written . the output of cynthesizer is verilog which is then run automatically through a logic synthesis tool . references edit cadence press release cadence to enhance high level synthesis offering with acquisition of forte design systems hardware design and levels of abstraction eetimes 2007 . forte design systems forte eda caf 2006 . got system level synthesis eedesign 2005 . external links edit official website v t e programmable logic concepts asic soc fpga logic block cpld epld pla pal gal reconfigurable computing xputer soft microprocessor circuit underutilization languages verilog a ams vhdl ams vital systemverilog dpi systemc ahdl handel c psl upf palasm abel cupl openvera c to hdl flow to hdl myhdl jhdl ella companies accellera actel achronix amd aldec altera atmel cadence cypress duolog forte intel lattice national mentor graphics microsemi signetics synopsys magma virage logic texas instruments tabula xilinx products hardware ice stratix virtex software altera quartus xilinx ise xilinx vivado modelsim vtr simulators ip proprietary arc leon latticemico8 microblaze picoblaze nios nios ii open source latticemico32 opencores openrisc 1200 risc v jop retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title forte design systems & oldid 734097720 categories electronic design automation companiescompanies based in san jose california navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 12 august 2016 at 03 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view