Synopsys, Inc. announced that NSITEXE, a group company of DENSO Corporation that develops and sells high-performance semiconductor IP, used the SynopsysASIP Designer Tool in the development of five specialized custom processors, including dedicated vector-processing engines, for its automotive data flow processor (DFP) platform. With ASIP Designer, NSITEXE was able to optimize the processors' multicore architecture and automatically generate software development kits (SDKs), enabling the company to design the custom processors in half the time compared to designing them from scratch. NSITEXE established an innovative design flow for its custom processor IP development, aiming for agility and efficiency. Synopsys' ASIP Designer allowed NSITEXE to specify the desired processor architecture in a high-level language at the abstraction level of a programmer's manual. Based on this high-level description, ASIP Designer automatically configured the SDK containing a cycle-accurate instruction-set simulator, assembler, linker, debugger and C/C++ compiler including support for OpenCL C. NSITEXE started from the rich set of processor examples provided with ASIP Designer to accelerate the development of their highly-specialized vector processors. The immediate availability of the SDK allowed NSITEXE to rapidly profile and modify the architecture to improve PPA in an iterative way. In addition, ASIP Designer's ability to export the processor's simulation model with SystemC interfaces enabled a rapid setup of a virtual prototype of NSITEXE's multicore DFP. Availability and Resources: The ASIP Designer tool is available now Hear NSITEXE present at the Synopsys ASIP Seminar – Japan on Sept 25.