Cosmic Horizon

Cosmic Horizon is a sole proprietorship in electronic design automation (EDA) software specifically for SPARC-V9 microprocessor design. The business delivers a verification platform that runs on practically any computer. Cosmic Horizon is developing FSS, a simulator implemented entirely in Java, to provide a design verification tool to SPARC microprocessor products groups. Java is also the hardware description language (HDL) of the design under verification, eliminating the need for a cross-language interface such as SystemVerilog's DPI. Currently included with FSS but intended to be replaced with a virtual CPU socket into which customer-designed SPARC-V9 implementations can be inserted, Cosmic Horizon is developing what is believed to be the world's first RTL description of a SPARC processor in Java. JHDL makes Java descriptions of hardware possible. The copyrights and other intellectual property in the JHDL Software are owned by Brigham Young University (BYU), which grants to Cosmic Horizon a license to modify, publish, and distribute the computer programs known as JHDL. Any SPARC-V9 implementation (e.g. OpenSPARC T1) can be described in JHDL. A free trial download of FSS is currently available, which is not time-limited, but is feature-limited. Development of the product continues, and increasingly capable free versions will be released. The intention is that a full-featured product will be available to be sold under a software license agreement in the future.