Connex Technology Pick Tharas Systems' Hammer(R) SX Hardware Accelerator to Speed up Verification; Programmable Video Platform Maker to Simulate Real Video Streams on Hammer SX.SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Tharas Systems, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance, hardware-assisted verification solutions today announced that Connex Technology, developer of the ConnexArray(TM) Programmable Video Platform (PVP See portable video player. ) developer has selected Hammer SX to accelerate its functional verification. "As we implement our massively parallel video processor fabric we needed to verify real video streams -- prior to committing the design to silicon. The software simulator route was impractical since it would take 1000s of hours to simulate a few seconds of video frames. The traditional hardware emulation route was expensive and unfeasible. Tharas demonstrated an order of magnitude A change in quantity or volume as measured by the decimal point. For example, from tens to hundreds is one order of magnitude. Tens to thousands is two orders of magnitude; tens to millions is three orders of magnitude, etc. increase in performance with no change to our verification methodology -- all in less than a week," noted Dave Corbin, president & 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 Connex Technology. "High Definition Audio Video Coding standards such as H264/MPEG-4 and WM9 demand good quality video at substantially lower bit rates. This puts tremendous burden on chip implementation and verification. Hammer SX and Hammer MX family of hardware accelerators offer an exceptional value at a compelling price/performance point," said Rahm Shastry, president & CEO of Tharas Systems. "We are delighted to be part of Connex Technology's verification flow." About Tharas Systems Tharas Systems develops and markets design verification solutions that lead to a significant shortening of the overall verification cycle of complex integrated circuits and electronic systems design. The pay-off is a demonstrable reduction in time-to-market due to enhanced verification productivity. The recently introduced Hammer SX and Hammer MX products incorporate a patented, multi-core, custom-processor hardware assisted verification engine developed by Tharas that works in conjunction with popular Verilog and VHDL-based software simulators from Synopsys (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SNPS SNPS Space Nuclear Power System ), Cadence Design (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CDN (Content Delivery Network) A system of distributed content on a large intranet or the public Internet in which copies of content are replicated and cached throughout the network. ), and Mentor Graphics (NASDAQ:MENT). The Hammer solution delivers fast compile and accelerated performance without sacrificing ease-of-use and debugging capabilities. Customer installations span the computers, communications, networking, graphics and the video industries. Founded in 1998, Tharas is privately held with corporate headquarters located in Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, California (IPA: /ˌsæntəˈklærə/) , founded in 1777 and incorporated in 1852, is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. , and regional sales and support offices in North America and Japan. Tharas products are distributed through channel partners in Europe, India and Korea. For more information, visit the company website, http://www.tharas.com. Hammer(R) is a trademark of Tharas Systems Inc. Tharas acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services. |
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