Axis Systems' Xtreme Verification Tool Selected to Verify Hardware and Software for PMC-Sierra's Next-Generation MIPS-Based Processors.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 4, 2002 Designers Harness Power of Xtreme(TM) and ReConfigurable Computing See adaptive computing. Technology to Verify System-on-a-Chip (SoC) Designs and Software Applications in Hours Rather Than Weeks Axis Systems, Inc. today announced that PMC-Sierra (Nasdaq: PMCS PMCS PMC Sierra (stock symbol) PMCS Project Management Control System PMCS partial mission-capable, supply (US DoD) PMCS Preventive Maintenance Checks & Services PMCS Professional Military Comptroller School ) has selected Axis Systems' Xtreme(TM) verification system to accelerate the development of PMC-Sierra's next-generation MIPS-based processors. Xtreme, which integrates software simulation, accelerated simulation, and emulation in one system, enables designers to simultaneously verify the hardware design and develop software for target hardware, resulting in reduced verification time. Xtreme is being used to design and verify hardware and software for PMC-Sierra's RM9000x2(TM) 1 GHz multiprocessor, the first next-generation family of high-performance, integrated processors targeted at networking applications such as edge and core routers, remote access products and enterprise servers, high-end laser printers and consumer appliances. The RM9000x2's complex architecture is the foundation for future products that will provide greater processing power through additional CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. cores and higher performance 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 interconnect designed for networking equipment. Previously, running a simulation of the application programs in addition to the operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. required weeks; however, with Xtreme, verification can be achieved in a matter of hours. "To verify PMC-Sierra's newest designs, we require the best hardware and software debugging tools on the market. Xtreme is powerful enough to verify the design of a processor with multimillion gates and offers the added benefit of enabling us to test software applications on the target hardware design," said Ray Kunita, vice president of product development of PMC-Sierra's MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. Processor Division. "We are committed to delivering the industry's most comprehensive and cost-effective family of 64-bit MIPS-based processors with the highest speed and performance, lowest power and smallest footprint." "By offering hardware and software verification Software verification is a broad and complex discipline of software engineering whose goal is to assure that a software fully satisfies all the expected requirements. There are two fundamental approaches to verification:
About PMC-Sierra's RM9000x2 The RM9000x2 is a scalable multiprocessing architecture that solves the industry-wide problem of slow data transfers between processors in cache coherent systems and offers greater throughput efficiencies over single CPU products. Anchored by dual CPU cores running at 1 GHz, the RM9000x2 achieves maximum performance while drawing only five watts of power. The gigahertz CPU speed See MHz. and low power is achieved using 0.13-micron high performance process. The twin CPUs connect to high speed memory and I/O interfaces through a multiport, shared memory fabric. High speed I/O connectivity, which includes a very high performance 500 MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. HyperTransport(TM) bus interface, positions the RM9000x2 to target key applications such as core routers, edge routers, remote access products and enterprise servers. For more information, visit http://www.pmc-sierra.com/processors. About Axis Systems 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, multimedia, networking, 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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