Cadence Collaborates With ARM to Deliver Hardware/Software Emulation Environment, Accelerating Processor-Based Design
October 07 2008 - 11:31AM
Marketwired
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global
electronic design innovation, announced today at the ARM
Developers' Conference the availability of an ARM hardware/software
co-verification environment that accelerates the system validation
process and provides mutual customers with a faster path to first
silicon working with early software. ARM designers have adopted the
Cadence� Incisive� Palladium� III acceleration/emulation system for
its advanced processor development, using it for both in-circuit
emulation and transaction-based acceleration.
"The new environment, focusing on multimedia, graphics and
network storage applications, enables our mutual customers to
expand and accelerate their system validation ramp-up in these
market segments in addition to the popular ARM processor-based
handset market," said Peter Middleton, vice president of
engineering, Processor Division at ARM.
The new environment is based on a reference design utilizing the
Palladium III system, the ARM� RealView� Debugger, ARM processor IP
and Cadence SpeedBridge� adapters. This environment demonstrates
audio/video playback and capture of AVI and MP3 files, Web
browsing, Linux boot and software debugging, and helps customers to
ramp-up their ARM processor-based design system validation
environment rapidly.
"Our Mobile-WiMAX/Cellular chip worked within hours after
receiving our silicon back," said Yehuda Adelman, vice president of
VLSI at Comsys. "Cadence's full-system validation solution enabled
us to achieve our time-to-market goals. The Palladium series' fast
bring-up and turnaround times, its hardware/software full-vision
multicore capability, combined with the ARM RealView Debugger,
helped us to reduce our development cycle. The new environment
might further accelerate the hardware/software co-verification
bring-up efforts."
ARM processors have traditionally been validated by ARM using
the Cadence Palladium acceleration/emulation series.
Added Middleton: "Cadence's Palladium III system and its
integrated verification solution provide the capacity, throughput,
turnaround, and the bring-up time needed within real-world
scenarios to verify our most advanced processor IP."
"After a successful deployment with our leading-edge graphic
applications, we have proliferated the Cadence Palladium technology
into our standard system validation process for our ARM
processor-based portable navigation devices (PNDs) and mobile
internet devices (MIDs)," said Narendra Konda, director of
Engineering at nVidia. "This newly announced combined solution
delivered by Cadence with ARM processor IP will help customers to
quickly create a complete validation environment for the most
complex designs in the market."
The Palladium series of accelerators/emulators provides the
highest throughput for validation of complex hardware, software and
full systems in the wireless, graphics, networking and consumer
markets. The Palladium series supports ARM logic tiles (including
the ARM7, the ARM9, the ARM10, the ARM11 and the Cortex processor
families). By incorporating peripherals, embedded processors,
multiple ASICs, embedded software, and real-world data, the system
delivers MHz speed and is capable of handling designs of up to 256
million gates. The system delivers superior debug, system-wide
management, and advanced verification automation features such as
assertion- and transaction-based acceleration and can bring-up a
new design to emulation in less than a week.
"The testimonials from ARM, nVidia and Comsys are evidence of
the value proposition the Palladium series provides for both
processor-based IP designers as well as ARM-based wireless system
integrators," said Ran Avinun, marketing group director for system
design and verification at Cadence. "Emulation continues to be the
best method for validation of full SoC designs with embedded
processors months before silicon tapeout -- reducing risk in
committing to final silicon. The new integrated solution has been
designed by Cadence in collaboration with ARM, with a focus on
project teams that are building ARM processor-based SoCs for the
multimedia, storage and networking markets."
About Cadence
Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an
essential role in the creation of today's integrated circuits and
electronics. Customers use Cadence software and hardware,
methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced
semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and
telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. Cadence
reported 2007 revenues of approximately $1.6 billion, and has
approximately 5,100 employees. The company is headquartered in San
Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research
facilities around the world to serve the global electronics
industry. More information about the company, its products, and
services is available at www.cadence.com.
Cadence, SpeedBridge and Incisive are registered trademarks, and
the Cadence logo is a trademark of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in
the U.S. and other countries. All other marks are properties of
their respective holders.
ARM, ARM Powered and RealView are registered trademarks of ARM
Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of
their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings
plc; its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional
subsidiaries: ARM, Inc.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan
Limited; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; ARM
Belgium N.V.; AXYS Design Automation Inc.; ARM Germany GmbH; ARM
Embedded Technologies Pvt. Ltd.; and ARM Norway, AS.
For more information, please contact: Dean Solov Cadence Design
Systems, Inc. 408-944-7226 dsolov@cadence.com
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