Axis Systems' Xtreme Verification System Increases Chip Quality for Matsushita's Newest Digital Video Camera.Business Editors/Technology Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 12, 2002 Xtreme Contributes to First Silicon Success, Reduces R&D costs for 1.3-million-gate Image Processing Chip Axis Systems, Inc. today announced that AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C Company, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Osaka, Japan)(NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :MC)(PCX (1) A bitmapped graphics file format that handles monochrome, 2-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 24-bit color and uses RLE to achieve compression ratios of approximately 1.1:1 to 1.5:1. Images with large blocks of solid colors compress best under the RLE method. See PC Paintbrush. :MC) used the Xtreme(TM) verification system from Axis to increase the quality and reduce verification time of an image processing chip for Matsushita's DIGICAM NV-MX5000 digital video camera. The new chip is a system large-scale integration (LSI LSI: see integrated circuit. (Large Scale Integration) Between 3,000 and 100,000 transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, VLSI and ULSI. ) chip that contains more than 1.3 million logic gates and more than 20 Mb of embedded dynamic random access memory Dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is a type of random access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor within an integrated circuit. Since real capacitors leak charge, the information eventually fades unless the capacitor charge is refreshed periodically. (DRAM). The chip, which uses the Advanced Pixel Interpolation interpolation In mathematics, estimation of a value between two known data points. A simple example is calculating the mean (see mean, median, and mode) of two population counts made 10 years apart to estimate the population in the fifth year. System (AXIS) technology that Matsushita developed, is the first to enable a digital video camera to record three-million pixel still images with extremely high resolution and outstanding image quality. In addition to the AXIS technology, the camera system also uses three charge-coupled devices (CCDs), giving it the quality of a professional broadcast video camera. Xtreme, which integrates software simulation, accelerated simulation, and emulation in one system, enabled Matsushita designers to run long tests on the chip, vastly improving verification results over their previous software simulation solution. Because the chip was thoroughly verified, Matsushita achieved first silicon success. "Matsushita has been a loyal customer of Axis for a long time," 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. "We're pleased to know that our products and services have reduced Matsushita's verification costs and virtually eliminated silicon respins, which is essential for a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of electronic products." "We could not have done such thorough chip verification with our previous software simulation solution," said Mr. Koichi Toyomura, Staff Engineer in the AVC Network Business Group, AVC Company, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. "Xtreme was very easy to adopt. We incorporated it into our current methodology with very little effort, and it came up in acceleration mode in half a day." Mr. Koichi Toyomura added that Xtreme makes it very easy to debug a design, using features like VCD See Video CD. VCD - Video Compact Disc on demand and hot swapping. Because the design team reduced their verification time by two-thirds, they had more time to verify the chip, using longer image vectors and more kinds of vectors than ever before. About Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (Panasonic) Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., best known for its Panasonic, National, and Technics tech·nic n. 1. technics (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The theory, principles, or study of an art or a process. 2. technics (used with a pl. verb) Technical details, rules, or methods. 3. and Quasar brand names, is a worldwide leader in the development and manufacture of electronics products for a wide range of consumer, business, and industrial needs. Based in Osaka, Japan, the company recorded consolidated sales of US$51.7 billion for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2002. In addition to the Tokyo and other Japanese stock exchanges (6752), Matsushita Electric is also listed on the Amsterdam, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Pacific (NYSE/PCX: MC), and Paris stock exchanges. For more information, visit Panasonic's web site at: http://www.panasonic.co.jp/global/top.html About Axis Axis Systems, Inc. offers high-performance verification systems 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 system and with one design database, Axis' patented ReConfigurable Computing (RCC RCC - An extensible language. ) technology provides software simulation, accelerated simulation, system emulation and hardware/software co-verification. Customers include the world's leading graphics, networking, multimedia, and processor companies. Axis is headquartered at 209 Java Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089. To learn more about Axis, visit www.axiscorp.com. |
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