Cadence Expands Enterprise Verification IP Portfolio by 5X to Provide Industry's Broadest OVM Multi-Language Offering
October 15 2008 - 8:00AM
Marketwired
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global
electronic design innovation, today announced that it has acquired
the verification IP (VIP) assets from leading providers Yogitech
SpA, IntelliProp Inc., and HDL Design House. With the addition of
these high-quality components, Cadence� expands its existing VIP
portfolio by five times to now include over 30 standard protocols
for wireless, networking, storage, multimedia, automotive, and
more, also enabling Cadence to better address and help customers
resolve their key business risk areas of schedule and design
process predictability, design team productivity, and end product
quality. Purchase terms were not disclosed.
This asset acquisition allows Cadence to leverage its existing
leadership in VIP capability, including Open Verification
Methodology (OVM) multi-language reuse, protocol compliance, and
automated metric-driven verification methodology. Unlike
alternative VIP offerings in the market today that provide basic
bus-functional model (BFM) capability, all of the Cadence Incisive�
Universal Verification Components (UVC) in the portfolio will
provide a pre-packaged metric-driven solution. This includes OVM
multi-language support for both SystemVerilog and e, and the
industry-unique Compliance Management System to measure compliance
against the protocol specification. In addition, the UVCs include
all of the advanced testbench features Cadence customers have come
to expect, such as constrained-random stimuli generation, complete
protocol checking, scoreboarding hooks, and a full functional
coverage.
"Cadence is taking a prime position in the breadth of
verification IP offered with this announcement," said Ian
Mackintosh, president and chairman of OCP-IP. "OCP implementers
will certainly benefit from the availability of both advanced
testbench and assertion based VIP for OCP from a single vendor --
especially with the compliance checks built right in."
"Cadence has long provided industry leadership in verification
technology and methodology as this has been both a critical and
growing problem our customers face while designing their complex
SoCs," said Tom Cooley, corporate vice president of marketing and
field operations at Cadence. "The acquisition of powerful, mature
verification IP from leading verification providers Yogitech,
Intelliprop, and HDL Design House allows Cadence to provide the
broadest offering of proven verification IP and accelerate our
customers' ability to quickly achieve verification closure and meet
their business objectives."
Customers developing today's IP and SoC designs face the
challenge of high complexity and shrinking schedules, and requires
the scalable, consistent adoptability and reusability attributes
provided by an OVM multi-language environment. OVM has enjoyed
tremendous customer adoption and growth in vendor support since its
open-source release on www.ovmworld.org. As a co-developer of OVM
and contributor to the open source community, Cadence has invested
in providing the broadest portfolio of multi-language OVM VIP,
providing leadership to the industry and accelerating the momentum
of the ecosystem.
The OVM and Cadence Incisive verification technology support
within the VIP allows teams to more quickly create, integrate, and
reuse their verification environments from block to chip to system
level than other less capable offerings in the market. This
significantly reduces their verification risk by dramatically
shrinking verification environment development and bring-up time,
ensuring compliance to the protocol specifications being
implemented or integrated, and automating the collection and
analysis of verification metrics to rapidly achieve verification
closure.
"Yogitech has a successful history of providing specialized
solutions consisting of products, methodologies, and services for
digital and mixed-signal design and verification to key leaders
across the semiconductor industry, and we're now strengthening our
unique solution offering in the domain of safety-critical
electronics," said Silvano Motto, president and CEO of Yogitech.
"As an early verification collaborator with Cadence, we have worked
closely on verification technology and reuse methodology and see
our contribution to Cadence's VIP portfolio and this next phase of
our relationship providing tremendous value to the end customer in
terms of broad availability and applicability of this
industry-leading VIP offering."
Expanded Protocol Support
The existing portfolio of Cadence UVCs supports AMBA AHB and
AXI, Ethernet, PCI Express, PCI, and USB industry-standard
protocols. The new offering will better address VIP needs across
major market segments, with the expanded portfolio including
support for the following additional protocols:
AMBA APB ATAPI CAN CE-ATA
CompactFlash DDR2 DDR3 FibreChannel
HDMI HyperTransport I2C JTAG
LPC LIN OCP PCI-X
PMBus Register & Memory SAS SATA
SDIO Serial Rapid I/O SMBus SPI-4
Cadence customers already benefit from the company's long
history of expertise and industry success in the creation and
deployment of advanced testbench, assertion-based and
transaction-based acceleration VIP in addition to its SpeedBridge�
adapters for emulation and in-circuit system validation. The
availability of this broad range of VIP addresses project
requirements for standard protocol IP acceptance, compliance, and
SoC integration -- from the enterprise-wide needs at large
corporations to individual projects at small start-ups.
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.
For more information, please contact: Ronald May Cadence Design
Systems, Inc. 408-944-7992 rmay@cadence.com
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