Axis Systems Announces New Verification Product Using SEmulation Technology.Business Editors & High Tech Writers DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter Booth No. 4145 SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 5, 2000 Combined Simulation and Emulation Product Provides Cost Effective Solution for Verifying Networking and Multimedia SoC Designs Axis Systems, Inc. (Axis), a supplier of the fastest 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. verification solutions, today announced Xtreme, which integrates Axis' ReConfigurable Computing See adaptive computing. (RCC RCC - An extensible language. )-based accelerated simulation with hardware emulation together in a single platform. The Xtreme family of products is based on new SEmulation (SE) technology from Axis (announced 4/17/00), which enables RTL-level emulation and provides advanced debugging capabilities thereby eliminating the need for logic analyzers. According to Steven Wang, Axis Vice-President of Marketing, "The Xtreme product family is the first of a new class of verification systems, which combine RCC-accelerated simulation and emulation into one system. As a result, Xtreme provides superior performance, easy setup and advanced debugging capabilities to close the gap between simulation and emulation." Xtreme enables emulation to start earlier in SoC design cycle For 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; designs, Xtreme directly compiles into its SE engine without going through logic synthesis. This allows emulation to start at an earlier point in the design cycle. Users can instantly switch back and forth between accelerated simulation and emulation, while preserving the same simulation debugging capabilities. Xtreme Reduces Emulation Setup Time and Functional Uncertainty Xtreme reduces emulation setup time by offering the same ease of use as simulation in a single platform without altering design methodology. Unlike traditional emulation system, designers can incrementally migrate from compiled simulation to accelerated simulation and to emulation with certainty that the design behavior is consistent throughout the complete design cycle. Xtreme Provides Simulation Debugging Capabilities Within Emulation With the ability to instantaneously swap an emulation state into simulation, users can emulate to find design errors in emulation and swap, in real time, the emulation state back into RCC accelerated simulation. Therefore, users can 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. their emulation results all within the simulation environment. Axis' VCD-on-Demand capability has been incorporated within the Xtreme product to save the compressed image of all internal state changes within the emulation session. During the debugging phase, users can specify a time range to extract and display emulation state history thereby eliminating the need for logic analyzers. SE Technology Advantages: Fast Design Change Turnaround Time (1) In batch processing, the time it takes to receive finished reports after submission of documents or files for processing. In an online environment, turnaround time is the same as response time. For design changes, Xtreme provides incremental compilation, which offers compilation in less than 30 minutes on a single workstation for designs up to 20 million gates. Performance and Capacity The Xtreme entry system starts at 2.5 million 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. gates with expansion up to 20 million gates. A design's memories can be mapped into internal 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. memories, on-board SRAM See static RAM. SRAM - static random-access memory or workstation memory up to 4GBytes. Emulation performance is in the range of 300 to 500 thousand of cycles per second. Price and Availability Xtreme ships in Q4 2000. The price is in the range of $0.13 to $0.22 per gate (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. ) depending on system capacity. About Axis Systems, Inc. Axis Systems, Inc. is a technology leader in the verification acceleration market. Founded in 1996, the company offers breakthrough technologies for verifying electronic systems and systems-on-a-chip designs. Customers include the world's leading networking and multimedia companies. Axis is headquartered at 209 Java Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089, 408-588-2000, Faxes: 408-588-1662, www.axiscorp.com. Xtreme is a trademark of Axis Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Notes to editors: Picture available on request Acronyms ASIC: Application Specific IC EDA: Electronic Design Automation IC: Integrated Circuit ICE: In-Circuit Emulation RCC: ReConfigurable Computing RTL: Register-Transfer Level or RT level SE: SEmulation VCD: Value-Change-Dump |
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