'Spicing' up high speed.WILSONVILLE, OR -- Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics, Inc (NASDAQ: MENT) is a US-based multinational corporation dealing in electronic design automation (EDA) for electrical engineering and electronics, as of 2004, ranked third in the EDA industry it helped create. (mentor.com) is offering a new class of design kits for Xilinx's (xilinx.com) line of 10-Gb/s FPGAs. The Mentor kit provides high-speed verification models written in ICX-SPICE, for use with the company's ICX ICX Inter-Cartridge Exchange ICX Incoming Exchange ICX Intelligence Express ICX Internet College Exchange ICX Internet Content Accelerator PCB PCB: see polychlorinated biphenyl. PCB in full polychlorinated biphenyl Any of a class of highly stable organic compounds prepared by the reaction of chlorine with biphenyl, a two-ring compound. design verification environment. Xilinx's Virtex-II Pro X FPGAs are capable of speeds up to 10 Gb/s per channel, reportedly the fastest FPGAs available. The move means designers can integrate the Virtex FPGAs with Mentor's ICX environment, which includes design entry, place and route and signal integrity. The ICX line provides SI analysis for IC device architectures, combining the electrical and physical aspects of a design and providing an integrated design The introduction to this article provides insufficient context for those unfamiliar with the subject matter. Please help [ improve the introduction] to meet Wikipedia's layout standards. You can discuss the issue on the talk page. and verification environment for SI and timing analysis during layout. "Mentor Graphics has reduced the cost and complexity of multi-gigabit signal integrity analysis by fully integrating its SPICE and S-Parameter solution directly within its PCB design environment," said Jerry Banks, director of Global Alliances at Xilinx, in a statement. "Users should benefit from a robust design with a reduced number of board spins and a higher PCB production yield by having accurate verification models for our multi-gigabit Virtex-II Pro X devices. "FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. on board is one of our strategic thrusts," John Isaac, director, systems market development, told PCD&M. "We're seeing more put on board because of performance and density increases, and [because] the cost of ASICs is prohibitive." Multi-gigabit technology isn't the norm yet, but use is increasing. One recent study found 14% of designs use multi-gigabit technology. Isaac said the solution will have the biggest impact on designers operating above 500 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. . "If you are operating below 300 to 400 MHz, you can live with conventional chips and SI software. But you have to eat a lot of routing space to run these designs." While the new design kit applies to ICX, Mentor said it is "on the verge On the Verge (or The Geography of Yearning) is a play written by Eric Overmyer. It makes extensive use of esoteric language and pop culture references from the late nineteenth century to 1955. " of completing testing of a comparable design kit for Hyperlinx. |
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