CoFluent Design

CoFluent Design was a supplier of electronic system-level (ESL) modeling and simulation software that was acquired by Intel in 2011. The company was founded in 2003, and the development of the core technology used by CoFluent Design had begun at the Ecole Polytechnique of the University of Nantes in France by Professor Jean-Paul Calvez and his research team. CoFluent was headquartered in Nantes, France, and had sales offices in Paris, France, San Jose, California, and Tokyo, Japan.

CoFluent Design uses a methodology called MCSE (Méthodologie de Conception de Systèmes Electroniques in French) for some of its technology. The company's products are system modeling and simulation solutions that enable embedded system and chip designers to develop and validate new concepts and architectures.

CoFluent Studio is a solution developed by CoFluent Design and is still distributed by Intel. It is based on Eclipse modeling framework (EMF) technology and generates transaction-level modeling SystemC code for early architecture exploration and performance analysis.

CoFluent Studio was developed with visual model-driven engineering (MDE) software for modeling and simulating complex multi-core hardware and software systems. To use the solution, input that is selected for use must be based on MCSE notations, a domain-specific language (DSL) for describing electronic system behavioral and architectural models with time and performance properties.

In 2008, CoFluent Design launched CoFluent Reader, a free CoFluent model viewer and simulation player. It is free to download and is meant to be used as a collaboration tool between project members using CoFluent Studio. This product is also still available through Intel.