June 26, 2006 -- Startup Lynguent, Inc. has announced its first product, the ModLyng Integrated Modeling Environment. ModLyng is a tool for analog/mixed-signal (AMS) IC design that incorporates an easy-to-use graphical user interface, is language- and platform-independent, and removes significant barriers to the reuse of models.

With Lynguent's new ModLyng environment, engineers can create, maintain, debug, and translate their AMS models and can reuse the models in other designs, across a number of target HDLs. ModLyng does this through a graphical user interface that is independent of, yet compatible with, proprietary simulation environments and HDLs. ModLyng imports the model code, automatically creating a topological view of the model and interpreting the electrical equations and statements in the body of the model. Engineers can augment and extend their models with new equations or icons representing pre-configured behaviors. ModLyng also populates a table with all of the ports and parameters in the model and generates a symbol representing the model so that it may be used inside other models. Alternatively, engineers can create new models with ModLyng, which is especially important in developing behavioral model blocks for speeding design simulation and validation. The models may be exported to the same language in which it was written or automatically translated to another language.

ModLyng also features unique analysis and debug capabilities. Using the tools in the ModLyng environment, ports, parameters, equations, statements, and topologies are all easily manipulated and checked. For example, ModLyng's Graph tool makes it easy to find discontinuities in model code.

The ModLyng environment can be used whether the AMS technology is part of an IC's external functionality (e.g., systems-on-chip (SOCs), analog-digital converters, or amplifiers), or is embedded in the IC's underlying technology (e.g., the semiconductor models used in all modern IC design processes).

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