AXIOM Design Automation Enhances MPSim Verification Solution to Support Interoperability With Magma's IC Implementation Software Through the Unified Power Format.MILPITAS, Calif. -- AXIOM Design Automation announces that it has endorsed the Unified Power Format for power-aware designs and fully supports it in its MPSim Verification Solution. UPF UPF Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain) UPF University Press of Florida UPF Ultraviolet Protection Factor UPF Universal Preservation Format UPF Upcountry People's Front (Sri Lanka) provides a single low-power description that can be used in the design and verification process and fosters tool interoperability. Without the single low-power description, each step of the design process would need to rely on the error-prone and cumbersome process of translating multiple formats and proprietary commands where the power intent could easily deviate from each other. Now design engineers using Magma's IC implementation system and the verification engineer using the MPSim verification environment can use the same low-power description. "UPF is Accellera's answer to designers' need for a fast, open and inclusive low-power design standard. We are very happy to see it gather such strong momentum within a short amount of time and are pleased to see it supported by leading verification vendors. AXIOM provides one of the most feature-rich verification implementations for this standard," said Yatin Trivedi, director of Magma's Industry Partnership Program. "We are pleased to be working with Magma to offer mutual customers a complete low- power design flow based on Magma's best-in-class Talus talus (tā`ləs), deposit of rock fragments detached from cliffs or mountain slopes by weathering and piled up at their bases. A talus is a common geologic feature in regions of high cliffs. IC implementation and Axiom's MPSim verification environment," says Badru Agarwala, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Axiom. "With native implementation of UPF within MPSim, we believe that we can provide a much more robust verification and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. environment for tracking down low-power management and control issues." The MPSim solution provides full support of the UPF format including power-off corruption, setting isolation signals, specifying retention capabilities for state-machines as well as enhanced capabilities within its suite of debug tools and coverage of the power control mechanisms specified in the design, as well as the UPF file. Axiom will be demonstrating this flow at 44th Design Automation Conference (DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter ) in San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. at the UPF booth 7860 and the Axiom booth 4560. About AXIOM Originally founded as @HDL (Hardware Description Language) A language used to describe the functions of an electronic circuit for documentation, simulation or logic synthesis (or all three). Although many proprietary HDLs have been developed, Verilog and VHDL are the major standards. in 1999, AXIOM has been a pioneer in developing functional verification Functional verification, in electronic design automation, is the task of verifying that the logic design conforms to specification. In everyday terms, functional verification attempts to answer the question "Does this proposed design do what is intended?" This is a complex task, 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. For more information, see our web site at http://www.axiom-da.com. |
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