Avery Design Systems Inc. Introduces Industry's First Native VHDL Testbench Automation and Parallel Simulation for Better Performance and Productivity.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ANDOVER, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 29, 2003 Avery Design Systems, a provider of 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, solutions for ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. and SOC design, today introduces 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. support for its breakthrough TestWizard and SimCluster products. "TestWizard and SimCluster comprise a functional verification solution that delivers an order of magnitude A change in quantity or volume as measured by the decimal point. For example, from tens to hundreds is one order of magnitude. Tens to thousands is two orders of magnitude; tens to millions is three orders of magnitude, etc. better performance, capacity, flexibility, and productivity to design teams compared to other piecemeal solutions", says Chilai Huang, President. "Avery's solution uniquely balances the needs of advanced verification while better leveraging today's best-in-class simulators. Our VHDL support gives designers the most flexibility in enhancing their VHDL-only or and dual-language design flows. We don't make another simulator or language; we make the ones that people already use better." "SimCluster's scalable parallel simulation solution has already demonstrated up to 500% speedup over stand-alone simulations on large-scale system designs", says Chris Browy, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "The benefits of SimCluster include significantly faster turnaround time (1) In batch processing, the time it takes to receive finished reports after submission of documents or files for processing. In an online environment, turnaround time is the same as response time. for large-scale simulation runs and elimination of the simulator capacity issue. This can save project teams significant time and money". "TestWizard directly injects advanced transaction-level testbench automation into the industry's most popular VHDL simulator, ModelSim, while delivering better than 2X simulator efficiency compared to other proprietary verification-only language solutions in the market today", says Browy. TestWizard is a complete transaction-based testbench environment that lets users implement testbenches directly in VHDL, Verilog, and C. TestWizard supports VHDL functions for constrained con·strain tr.v. con·strained, con·strain·ing, con·strains 1. To compel by physical, moral, or circumstantial force; oblige: felt constrained to object. See Synonyms at force. 2. random case generation, user-defined structures and lists, transaction logging and database searches, functional coverage analysis, coverage-driven adaptive testing, and protocol assertion checking. TestWizard will also directly support the proposed Accellera formal property specification language standard (PSL/Sugar) when it is officially released. TestWizard also includes C/C C/C Center to Center C/C Combustion Chamber C/C Command/Control C/C Crew Chief C/C cabin cruiser (US DoD) C/C chief complaint (medical) C/C Channel-to-Channel C/C Communication and Collaboration ++ features to implement C/C++ testbench and co-simulation environments with ease though a portable and powerful high-level API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. thus overcoming the lack of a standard C-based API for VHDL. Pricing and Availability TestWizard supporting VHDL and Verilog is available for immediate distribution under Solaris and Linux. Pricing starts at $5,500 for the annual term-based license version. SimCluster starts at $11,000 for the annual term-based license version. TestWizard VHDL works with ModelSim Version 5.6 and later. NC-Sim support is in development. SimCluster and TestWizard Verilog work with ModelSim Version 5.6 and later, Cadence's NC-Sim and Verilog -XL releases 3.1 and later, and Synopsys' VCS (1) (Verilog Computer Simulator) See Verilog. (2) (Version Control System) See version control. 5.2 and later. About Avery Design Systems Avery Design Systems Inc. is a supplier of HDL-based functional verification products and service that enables dramatic productivity improvements of the ASIC-based systems and SOC verification process. Additional information about Avery Design Systems is available at http://www.avery-design.com. |
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