Chameleon Systems Partners With Zaiq Technologies to Deliver Next-Generation Processor Chip.Business/Technology Editors WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2001 Leading Semiconductor Design Firm to Lead Verification of High-Bandwidth Reconfigurable Communications Processor Zaiq Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of complete design engineering solutions, announced today that Chameleon Systems, a leading fabless developer of communications semiconductors, has selected Zaiq to lead the verification of its 0.25-micron and 0.18-micron chips. Chameleon Systems will tap Zaiq Technologies' networking and communications expertise to execute verification for the Chameleon 0.25-micron and 0.18-micron chips, designed for wireless communications wireless communications System using radio-frequency, infrared, microwave, or other types of electromagnetic or acoustic waves in place of wires, cables, or fibre optics to transmit signals or data. applications. Zaiq will set up a robust verification environment for chips using Zaiq's state-of-the-art verification methodology, supporting 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; (register transfer level) to netlist realization. Additionally, the verification environment will be used to emulate actual lab 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. activities. Zaiq will conduct system level, block level functional and gate level verification and testability analysis for the complex Chameleon chips. "Zaiq's extensive experience in verification and project management made them the clear choice to lead this project," said Ana Hunter, vice president of operations and acting vice president of hardware for Chameleon Systems. "It was crucial for us to partner with a verification team that possessed an exceptional level of expertise as we work to provide communications and networking companies with the highest quality in performance and flexibility." Highly flexible processors that can be reconfigured remotely in the field, Chameleon's chips are designed to simplify communication system design while delivering increased price/performance numbers. The 0.25-micron chip, the CS2112, was introduced in May 2000, while the 0.18-micron chip is due out later this year. "Innovative companies like Chameleon Systems rely on seasoned engineering talent and proven methodologies to provide them with breakthrough time-to-revenue design engineering solutions," said Ray Carlin car·line or car·lin n. Scots A woman, especially an old one. [Middle English kerling, from Old Norse, from karl, man.] , president and chief executive officer for Zaiq Technologies. "Chameleon's decision to work with Zaiq will enable them to quickly and cost effectively provide the communications market with next-generation processing capabilities." About Chameleon Founded in 1997, Chameleon Systems, Inc. is a privately held fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. that designs, markets and sells programmable system-on-a-chip solutions for the communications electronics markets. Headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , the company has developed the industry's first reconfigurable communications processor (RCP (networking, tool) rcp - (Remote copy) The Unix utility for copying files over Ethernet. Rcp is similar to FTP but uses the hosts.equiv user authentication method. Unix manual page: rcp(1). )--an ideal solution for data-intensive Internet, DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive , wireless basestations, voice compression Same as speech compression. , software-defined radio A software-defined radio (SDR) system is a radio communication system which can tune to any frequency band and receive any modulation across a large frequency spectrum by means of programmable hardware which is controlled by software. , and other high-performance embedded telecom and datacom applications. The Chameleon RCP solution allows data and telecom equipment vendors to create customized communications signal processors to increase performance and channel count, more quickly adapt to new requirements and standards, reduce time-to-market, lower development costs and reduce risk. Visit Chameleon Systems at http://www.chameleonsystems.com About Zaiq Technologies, Inc Headquartered in Woburn, Mass., Zaiq Technologies, Inc. is a leading provider of total design engineering solutions for companies that develop complex telecommunications, networking and computer products. The Company's innovative domain-specific design methodologies enable the creation and integration of reusable IP. As a result, customers are able to achieve breakthroughs in the time-to-market and time-to-revenue delivery of complex systems. Information about Zaiq and its services are available by phone at 781-932-2442, by e-mail at info@zaiqtech.com or on the Internet at http://www.zaiqtech.com. |
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