Axis Delivers the Best Price/Performance Option for Verifying and Debugging Electronic Systems Designs.SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 1999-- Xcite-2000's Simulation Capacity Increases to 10 Million Gates, Memory Utilization Improves Memory Simulations and State-Transition Report Improves Debugging Productivity Xcite with VCD-on-Demand is shipping now for Sun Workstations Axis Systems, Inc. (Axis) an EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. technology and verification tool developer today announced Xcite-2000, a 10 million gate capacity version of its Xcite verification system with improved memory capacity and utilization, and VCD-on-Demand (VoD), a new Xcite product feature that improves design debugging and productivity. Axis customers use its Xcite verification system to verify 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. SoC design functionality for networking and multimedia applications. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Steve Wang, Axis' vice-president of marketing, "At a price between 10 to 17 cents per gate and speeds up to 1000 times faster than software only simulators, Xcite offers electronic systems designers the best price /performance option for verifying and debugging their systems." Wang, noted, "Our new external modular configuration makes it possible for us to increase gate capacity and memory capacity so that the product grows with our users' needs." New External Enclosure from Axis For the first time, Axis offers expandability for up to 10 million gates with an external enclosure connected to a Sun workstation with a PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). interface slot by interface cables. Each board holds 10 Atera 10K250 components and 8Mbits of static RAM A fast memory technology that requires power to hold its content. Static RAM (SRAM, S-RAM) is used for high-speed registers, caches and relatively small memory banks such as a frame buffer on a display adapter. . 24 boards are required to reach up to 10 million-gate capacity with up to 192 M bits of on-board memory. All 24 boards fit in an enclosure about the same size as the Sun Ultra 60 enclosure. Advanced Debugging Capability To enhance design debugging, Xcite offers VCD-on-Demand (VoD). VoD allows its users to access a complete history of all state transitions from time zero during simulation. Using its patented ReConfigurable Computing See adaptive computing. (RCC RCC - An extensible language. ) co-processor technology, Xcite compresses all signal activities during simulation without impact to simulation performance. The compressed data represent less than 1Mbytes for 1M clock cycles. Anytime during simulation, multiple VCD See Video CD. VCD - Video Compact Disc files can be instantly generated according to a user's specification for select time regions and design hierarchies. Memory Utilization Extension For memory greater then 192M bits, Xcite maps workstation memory to concurrently simulate with its of ReConfigurable Computing (RCC) coprocessors and eliminates the need for costly customized external memory cards. For example, for designs with large external dynamic RAM, Xcite's RCC engine communicates directly with workstation memory offering up to 4 GBytes of extended memory. About Xcite Xcite represents of a new class of design verification tools that take advantage of RCC co-processors coupled with functional verification and debugging software to improve design verification throughput by orders of magnitude over software-only simulators. Xcite addresses behavioral, 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; and gate-level simulation and verification of million-gate plus designs. Xcite-2000 has been in external Beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the since July 1999 and has successfully simulated more than ten customer designs. Xcite-1000 for simulations of up to 4 million gates fits directly inside a Sun(TM) Microsystems Ultra(TM) 30 or Ultra 60 workstation and connects to its PCI backplane and has been shipping for a year. Price and Availability Xcite-2000 with 2.5M gates, compiler, software simulator and the Xplore graphical interface starts at $434,500 (USD USD In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. ). Capacity upgrades in increments of 2.5M gates start at $230K (USD). The VoD feature for Xcite is included with all Xcite products and is available to all current Xcite users under maintenance at no charge. Xcite-2000 with VoD is shipping now. Current Xcite-1000 customers have upgrade options available. About Axis Axis Systems, Inc. is a technology leader in the logic design verification market. Founded in 1996, the company offers breakthrough technologies and high-speed simulation products to verify electronic systems and systems-on-a-chip designs. Axis is headquartered at 209 Java Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, 408/588-2000, FAXES: 408/588-1662, xcite@axiscorp.com, www.axiscorp.com. Note to Editors: Photo available on request. Acronyms and definitions: EDA: Electronic Design Automation 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. : Hardware Description language (language) Hardware Description Language - (HDL) A kind of language used for the conceptual design of integrated circuits. Examples are VHDL and Verilog. RCC: ReConfigurable Computing RTL: Register-transfer level or RL-level SoC: Systems-on-Chip VCD: Value, Change, Dump; popular Verilog hardware description language file format Verilog HDL: popular hardware description design language VoD: VCD-on-Demand Xcite is a trademark of Axis Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their owners. Contact for inquiries: Axis Systems, Inc., 209 Java Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, 408/588-2000 x111, FAX: 408-588-1662, xcite@axiscorp.com or visit www.axiscorp.com, Attn.: Steve Wang. |
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