AXYS Announces Availability of SuperSim Phase-Accurate HW/SW Co-Verification Model for DSP Group's OakDSPCore; SuperSim Model Simulates 0.3 Million Instructions Per Second.ORLANDO, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 1, 1999-- AXYS Design Automation Inc., of Irvine, Calif. Monday announced at the ICSPAT'99/DSP World Expo in Orlando, the immediate availability of the phase-accurate SuperSim(TM) HW/SW HW/SW Hardware/Software co-verification model for the OakDSPCore(R) from DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive Group Ltd. The new model offers a 1,000x speedup over the OakDSPCore(R) RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; model, with full phase-level accuracy and complete software debugging (programming) debugging - The process of attempting to determine the cause of the symptoms of malfunctions in a program or other system. These symptoms may be detected during testing or use by real users. support. The model was successfully verified against DSP Group's HW reference model on the accompanying test suites. "Licensees of DSP Group's OakDSPCore(R) are now able to run CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) A method for transmitting simultaneous signals over a shared portion of the spectrum. The foremost application of CDMA is the digital cellular phone technology from QUALCOMM that operates in the 800 MHz band and 1.9 GHz PCS band. and GSM software and HW/SW co-simulations in minutes instead of days with the full confidence that they are getting the same results as with the RTL model," said AXYS' President Vojin Zivojnovic. OakDSPCore(R) is a 16-bit general purpose low-power, low-voltage and high-speed licensable Digital Signal Processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). (DSP) core designed for speech/audio processing, telecommunications, digital cellular and embedded control applications. Among the applications supported by OakDSPCore(R) are cellular telephones, facsimile machines, modems and hard disk drives. In combination with the ARM7TDMI(TM) core from ARM, OakDSPCore(R) represents a main component in advanced System-on-a-Chip solutions for portable wireless devices. "Through the cooperation with AXYS, our SmartCores(TM) licensees now have the ability to make HW/SW trade-offs and verify their System-on-a-Chip designs early on in the design cycle," said DSP Group's Director of Development Tools & SW Support, Eyal Ben-Avraham. The new model is currently available with the SW debugger, VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) A hardware description language (HDL) used to design electronic systems at the component, board and system level. VHDL allows models to be developed at a very high level of abstraction. and Verilog wrappers In data mining and treatment learning, wrappers were used by Ron Kohavi and George John. Their idea was to wrap their treatments learners in a preprocessor that would search to make subsets from the current set of attributes. , as well as part of the co-verification tools of Cadence, Mentor and Yokogawa scheduled for Q4'99. The models for other cores of DSP Group, including the TeakLite(TM) DSP Core, the TeakDSPCore(TM) and the PalmDSPCore(R) will follow shortly. About AXYS AXYS Design Automation Inc., Irvine, together with AXYS GmbH, Herzogenrath, Germany offers processor-centric verification products to customers with high demands regarding simulation speed, accuracy, multicore integration, tool coupling and model design-time. AXYS is the major independent provider of DSP and other embedded models to the market. The model portfolio of AXYS includes processors of Conexant, DSP Group, Infineon, LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. Logic and others. The SuperSim(TM) processor simulation technology was initially developed at Aachen University of Technology, Germany. In March 1997 the research team transferred to AXYS. The OAK SuperSim is the first in the series of high-end HW/SW co-verification models of DSP and other embedded processors, which AXYS as an independent provider makes available to the open market. For more information, visit AXYS at www.axysdesign.com. About DSP Group Inc. DSP Group is a global leader in the development and marketing of high-performance, cost-effective, licensable digital signal processing cores. The company's family of DSP cores provide ideal solutions for low-power speech and audio processing, wireless communication technologies such as 3G, GSM and CDMA, fast modems, multimedia, advanced telecommunication systems, disk drive controllers and many other types of embedded control applications. By combining its DSP core technologies with its proprietary, advanced speech-processing algorithms -- DSP Group also delivers a wide range of enabling, application specific ICs for full-featured integrated telephony products and applications, including digital spread spectrum wireless technologies. DSP Group maintains an international presence with offices located around the globe. For more information visit DSP Group's Web site at www.dspg.com. Note to Editors: SuperSim(TM) is a trademark of AXYS Design Automation Inc. SmartCores(TM), TeakLite(TM) and Teak teak, tall deciduous tree (Tectona grandis) of the family Verbenaceae (verbena family), native to India and Malaysia but now widely cultivated in other tropical areas. (TM) are trademarks of DSP Group Inc. OakDSPCore(R), TeakDSPCore(R) and PalmDSPCore(R) are registered trademarks of DSP Group Inc. ARM7TDMI(TM) is a trademark of ARM Ltd ARM Ltd - Advanced RISC Machines Ltd. . 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