Avnet Design Services and Denali Software Announce Development and Distribution Agreement.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers PHOENIX & PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 30, 2002 Joint Effort Targets Denali Memory Controller Intellectual Property for Xilinx FPGAs Avnet Design Services (ADS), the technical arm of Avnet Electronics Marketing, and Denali Software Denali Software, Inc. is an American software company, based in Palo Alto, California. The company produces electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP) design cores for memory and other standard interfaces. , the world leader in memory system development, Tuesday announced their agreement to develop and distribute memory controller Intellectual Property (IP) Cores for high-speed DRAM. Denali's Databahn(TM) product will be used to generate the high-level language A machine-independent programming language, such as FORTRAN, COBOL, BASIC, Pascal and C/C++. It lets the programmer concentrate on the logic of the problem to be solved rather than the intricacies of the machine architecture such as is required with low-level assembly languages. description of memory controller cores. ADS will then target these cores to Xilinx(R) 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. devices and produce customer-ready IP cores. ADS will be Denali's exclusive distribution channel for these new products. High Performance Memory System Design The extreme data-bandwidth requirements of networking, communications, and consumer electronics, combined with the new generation of complex DRAM components, make the memory system one of the most challenging elements of chip design today. As part of the memory system, an on-chip memory controller must be able to understand the timing and protocol of these off-chip memory devices so that data can be transferred between the chip and the external memory. But most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , the memory system must implement sophisticated logic to interpret the multiple streams of data and data requests from the system, and then determine the optimum procedure for getting that data in and out of memory -- all within the bandwidth and latency (1) The time between initiating a request in the computer and receiving the answer. Data latency may refer to the time between a query and the results arriving at the screen or the time between initiating a transaction that modifies one or more databases and its completion. requirements of the system. Databahn Technology Denali's Databahn(TM) product was specifically designed to produce robust memory system IP that can leverage the latest DRAM memories to meet user-specified performance requirements. System architects use Databahn's online configuration interface to select system interface options and set performance requirements. For selecting memory devices, the Databahn configuration engine is integrated to Denali's eMemory.com where it searches a database of over 4,000 memory component specifications for compatibility. Alternatively, the system architect can specify a target memory by vendor, speed, or size, which enables the configuration engine to identify the unique features of the target memories, and then optimize optimize - optimisation the memory controller IP accordingly. Once the desired configuration is reached, the designer can initiate a simulation on the IP to validate To prove something to be sound or logical. Also to certify conformance to a standard. Contrast with "verify," which means to prove something to be correct. For example, data entry validity checking determines whether the data make sense (numbers fall within a range, numeric data performance estimates, and then download the synthesizable IP core for use in the system design. "Avnet Design Services is very pleased about this joint effort," said Warren Miller There are several people of note named Warren Miller, including
The Joint Solution Under the terms of the agreement, the companies will target a specific set of high-speed DRAM devices, and then produce a number of memory controller cores optimized to work with those devices. The companies will work with memory vendors to select the set of memory devices for which the cores are optimized. Denali's Databahn product will be used to generate optimal memory controller IP for the selected DRAM devices. Avnet Design Services will implement the memory controller cores in Xilinx FPGAs, and produce reference boards and other integration materials. Denali's MMAV(TM) verification IP product will be used for 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, of the memory controller cores in the reference designs. The cores and reference boards will be marketed and sold exclusively by Avnet. The initial products that result from this agreement will be announced later this quarter. "Avnet Design Services is providing the FPGA design expertise to implement the Databahn memory controller IP into Xilinx FPGAs," said Kevin Silver, vice president of marketing for Denali. "Avnet Design Services will create and support reference designs for the Databahn IP, and in addition to customer support, it will offer FPGA design services for custom modifications or integrations. "Through this partnership, customers are getting an integrated solution from the industry leaders in memory controller IP, FPGA technology, and FPGA design services." "These new intellectual property cores from Denali and Avnet Design Services will greatly aid our customers in the system level design using the Virtex-II(TM) series FPGAs. "In particular, we expect the Virtex-II and Virtex-II Pro(TM) families to be used where high-performance and high-capacity memory works in close conjunction with platform FPGAs," said Sandeep Vij, vice president of Worldwide Marketing at Xilinx. "The many years of experience Denali has with high-performance memory system design can now be embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. in IP cores that will directly benefit Xilinx customers." About Avnet Design Services Avnet Design Services is the technical arm of Avnet Electronics Marketing, providing a variety of technical resources and capabilities to speed customers' design cycles and to get their products to market quicker. Field applications engineers (FAEs) are knowledgeable about a variety of potential applications solutions for customers' design problems and can guide engineers to the solution that is right for their particular applications. Fee-for-service engineering services, in FPGA, 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 System Design are offered to Avnet customers. For more information, visit the Avnet Design Services Web site at http://www.ads.avnet.com. About Avnet Electronics Marketing Avnet Electronics Marketing (EM) is the largest operating group of Phoenix-based Avnet Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AVT AVT avian arginine vasotocin. See vasotocin. ), a Fortune 500 company with fiscal 2001 sales of $12.8 billion (year ended June 30, 2001). One of the world's largest distributors of semiconductors, interconnect (1) To attach one device to another. (2) A physical port (plug, socket) or wireless port (transmitter, receiver) used to attach one device to another. , passive and electromechanical The use of electricity to run moving parts. Disk drives, printers and motors are examples. Electromechanical systems must be designed for the eventual deterioration of moving components that wear over time. The first TVs were electromechanical systems (see video/TV history). components from leading manufacturers, Avnet EM markets, inventories and adds value to these products and provides world-class supply-chain management and engineering design services. Avnet EM serves customers in 63 countries. The company's Web site is located at http://www.avnet.com. About Databahn Databahn is the industry's first configurable memory processor core solution. With Databahn, designers can configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. a custom memory processor core online, and then analyze the performance of their IP based on the memory access characteristics of their system and the type of memory components used. To ensure compatibility with all the latest DRAM memory technologies, Databahn's online configuration process is tightly integrated with a database of more than 4,000 memory components at www.eMemory.com. Designers also use the Web-based interface to automatically generate and download the synthesizable memory processor IP and related verification suite. In addition to customer configured con·fig·ure tr.v. con·fig·ured, con·fig·ur·ing, con·fig·ures To design, arrange, set up, or shape with a view to specific applications or uses: memory processor cores, the Databahn solution offers optional support for memory market research to aid in memory selection, and optional support for custom I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output pads to overcome high-speed physical implementation issues In the Business world, companies frequently set-up a connection between which they transfer data. When the connection is being set-up, it is referred to as implementation. When issues occur during this phase, they are known as implementation issues. . Databahn is currently licensed for use in over 16 customer design efforts in high-performance networking and consumer electronics applications, and the quality is proven in silicon. About Denali Software Inc. Denali Software Inc. is the world-leading provider of solutions for memory system selection, design, and implementation. Denali's eMemory.com is the most comprehensive and up-to-date source for memory component information, and houses an online infrastructure for its memory selection, memory controller IP, and memory simulation products. Denali also offers memory market research services, which provides customers with the most unbiased and forward-looking information on the technology and economics of semiconductor memories. More than 400 companies worldwide use Denali's tools, technology, and services to plan and develop memory systems for communications, consumer, and computer products. For more information, contact Denali at http://www.denalisoft.com or call 650/325-7241. Other brands and names are the property of their respective owners. |
|
||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion