Axis Systems' Groundbreaking Behavioral Processor Accelerates Non-Synthesizable Behavioral Code.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2001 New Verification Technology Enables Designers to Accelerate and Emulate em·u·late tr.v. em·u·lat·ed, em·u·lat·ing, em·u·lates 1. To strive to equal or excel, especially through imitation: an older pupil whose accomplishments and style I emulated. 2. Behavioral Constructs for Higher Verification Productivity Axis Systems In music the axis system, proposed by Ernő Lendvai (1971, p.1-16) in his analysis of the use of tonality in the music of Béla Bartók, is an assignment of harmonic function to all twelve pitch classes in relation to an assigned tonic, determined by that pitch classes interval Inc. today announced Behavioral Processor, a new system-on-chip verification technology that for the first time enables chip designers to accelerate and emulate behavioral constructs in the code used to build a chip. Behavioral Processor increases the productivity of chip designers and reduces verification cycle times for entire design teams. "Our vision is to solve the verification productivity crisis for designers of electronic systems and systems-on-a-chip," said Mike Tsai, 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 Axis Systems. "By leveraging our ReConfigurable Computing See adaptive computing. technology, we've accomplished another milestone. Accelerating non-synthesizable behavioral code is a groundbreaking capability never before available to chip designers." The new technology is implemented through behavioral-level ReConfigurable Computing (RCC RCC - An extensible language. ) processors that are mapped directly onto FPGAs, enabling designers to accelerate the verification of 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 code on a single platform that provides simulation, acceleration and emulation (architecture) emulation - When one system performs in exactly the same way as another, though perhaps not at the same speed. A typical example would be emulation of one computer by (a program running on) another. . In contrast, traditional hardware-based verification tools allow designers to accelerate only RTL and gate level code, forcing designers to verify behavioral code on software simulators, which are much slower than emulators This article lists software that emulates arcade and console game systems, computing platforms and CPUs. Arcade systems
Behavioral constructs are asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. in nature and require the ability to dynamically schedule events without having to pre-determine the execution timing of the design. This capability is possible only in an event-driven system such as Axis' Xtreme, and cannot be attained with cycle-based verification tools. Behavioral Processor accelerates certain behavioral constructs that have traditionally been bottlenecks in the chip verification process, such as triggering and monitoring, cache memory management and large arithmetic operations that are used in datapath-intensive designs. In addition, Behavioral Processor accelerates testbench operations that drive signals and monitor activities between a design and its test. This technology will be applied to accelerate industry-leading testbench languages such as OpenVera from Synopsys Inc. and e from Verisity. Behavioral Processor technology has been integrated into Axis' Xtreme acceleration and emulation systems, and is already being used by several Xtreme customers for production chip design. About Axis Systems Axis Systems Inc. offers high-performance verification platforms for the hardware and software development of complex electronic system and system-on-a-chip designs. Axis' products help increase confidence in new designs, improve overall verification productivity and shorten time to market. On a single platform and with one design database, Axis' patented ReConfigurable Computing (RCC) technology provides software simulation, accelerated simulation, system emulation and hardware/software co-verification. Axis' verification products go "way beyond fast" -- they not only run fast, but also help customers identify and isolate bugs in a design faster than any other tool on the market. Customers include the world's leading networking and multimedia companies. Axis is Axis I Psychiatry A classification dimension used with DSM-IV, which includes clinical disorders and syndromes and/or other areas of concern. See DSM-IV, Multiaxial system. headquartered at 209 Java Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089. To learn more about Axis, visit www.axiscorp.com. |
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