AXIOM Announces the Release of MPSim on AMD Opteron Processor-Based Systems; MPSim is Industry's Fastest Multi-CPU SystemVerilog Simulator.

MILPITAS, Calif. -- AXIOM Design Automation, formerly @HDL Inc., today announced the release of a complete SystemVerilog verification environment optimized for the AMD Opteron(TM) processor family. MPSim(TM) is currently the only simulation product offering native integrated testbench, assertion based verification, coverage and debugging capabilities that leverages multi-processor hardware to deliver up to 6x faster verification performance.

"AXIOM has taken a leadership role in the functional verification space by taking advantage of multi-processor hardware to significantly improve simulation performance," said Atiq Raza, President and CEO of Raza Microelectronics and former President and COO of AMD. "MPSim provides a quantum gain in overall verification productivity necessary to overcome challenges faced by IC design teams working on complex SoCs."

Unlike other Electronic Design Automation (EDA) products, architecting the simulation engine to take advantage of Multi-processor capability is unique and challenging. These challenges include (a) event balancing across multiple processors, (b) data coherency and (c) synchronization and communications among processors. "In order to more fully maximize performance, a design has to be partitioned in such away that at every simulation cycle, each processor has balanced event activities. Since the event activity is determined by the test you are running, this is very difficult to predict at compile time," said Badru Agarwala, President and CEO of AXIOM. "Using AXIOM's patent-pending technology, partitioning is done at the run time and not at compile time. MPSim's auto-learn mode can assist in generating an optimal partitioning scheme for each test, providing significant gains in performance."

"AMD has led the way in dual-core processing with the introduction of the world's first x86-based 64-bit processor for the server/workstation market, the Dual-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor," said Pat Patla, director, Server/Workstation Marketing, Microprocessor Solutions Sector, AMD. "Functional verification is a highly compute-intensive application and we believe that companies like AXIOM have also taken a leadership role in developing software that can fully take advantage of AMD Opteron processor-based systems."

MPSim is architected to work with Multi-CPU machines as well as clusters such that verification performance and capacity can scale with the number of processors. The overall performance of the verification environment is enhanced by native integration of testbench and assertions. MPSim is currently in production use at customers with leading edge designs including Raza Microelectronics, SiNett and Bay Microsystems.

Customers can visit AXIOM at the Design Automation conference to see a first hand demo of these exciting new products or they can visit the AXIOM website at www.axiom-da.com.

About AXIOM

Originally founded as @HDL in 1999, AXIOM has been a pioneer in developing functional verification products. The company's mission has always been to accelerate the verification flow and to increase the overall productivity of verification engineers. The introduction of the MPSim multi-CPU simulator provides a quantum leap in verification performance to the industry and enables AXIOM to offer a complete solution to its customers.

AXIOM's integrated verification environment combines the fastest simulator in the industry with advanced testbench automation, assertion based verification, debugging and coverage analysis to ensure that your most complex designs are fully verified in the least amount of time. AXIOM supports commercially available hardware and industry standard languages including SystemVerilog, Verilog, OpenVera and PSL to ensure continuity with your existing verification methodology while offering a clear path to immediate productivity improvement.