The flagship product of this three year old spin out from Oxford University is Handel-C. This Computer Aided Software Engineering tool enables a software engineer to target an FPGA directly, without recourse to hardware description languages. With this approach, hardware design becomes a software-programming task and designers can exploit the capabilities of generic FPGA chips and PLDs quickly.

By reconfiguring the routes along which digital signals move, designers can rebuild the logic of a chip to upgrade its performance or give it new functionality. This flexibility increases the shelf life of the chip (and the product it supports) and widens the range of potential product applications.

Celoxica is addressing four major business areas: the design and supply of advanced CASE tools for creating applications on reconfigurable hardware platforms; the design and supply of reconfigurable hardware systems; consultancy and turnkey implementations of applications based on reconfigurable platforms; and education and training in the area of reconfigurable computing and hardware compilation.

Through its University Partner Program, Celoxica collaborates with universities and research centres around the world. Partner institutions have access to a range of benefits and services. For example, students can implement their own Risc, Cisc, or pipelined processors; building their own application specific signal processing systems in hardware running at video rates.

Prime:		Tool Origination
Subsidiary:
Employees:		<50

	High Level Design Capture / Simulation		PCB Design		Thermal Design / Simulation
	EMC		Other

C Like Programming Language

FPGA/PLD place & route tools

FPGA originator libraries

IBM PC or Compatible