Denali's PureSpec used by Agere for PCI Express interface verification.Denali Software Denali Software, Inc. is an American software company, based in Palo Alto, California. The company produces electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP) design cores for memory and other standard interfaces. has announced that Agere Systems Agere Systems Inc. was an integrated circuit components company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Effective April 2, 2007, it was merged into LSI Corporation. used Denali's PureSpec verification software in designing the ET1310 native PCI Express A high-speed peripheral interconnect from Intel introduced in 2002. Note that although sometimes abbreviated "PCX," PCI Express is not the same as "PCI-X" (see PCI-SIG and PCI-X for comparison). As a result of the confusion, "PCI-E" or "PCIe" is the accepted abbreviation. Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. controller announced recently. "With the personal computer market transitioning to PCI Express at a very fast clip, our customers have called on us for very high quality, ultra high reliability system-on-chips with PCI Express capability," says William D. Billowitch, senior manager of IP Reuse Design & Development at Agere. "Functional verification Functional verification, in electronic design automation, is the task of verifying that the logic design conforms to specification. In everyday terms, functional verification attempts to answer the question "Does this proposed design do what is intended?" This is a complex task, of these systems is critical. For the PCI Express interface, we choose Denali. The quality and completeness of Denali's verification IP helped us produce a high-quality product on-time." Denali's PureSpec verification IP product includes complete bus functional models (BFMs) integrated with thousands of assertions that enabled Agere to verify their PCI Express interface for compliance with the specification and interoperability with other PCI Express devices. PureSpec is used by over 40 companies currently engaged in PCI Express design verification. Adds David Lin, Denali's vice president of product marketing: "We were really impressed by the quality and expertise of Agere design engineering, and we see the best of the best worldwide. It has been great working with them and we look forward to more successful projects with Agere." PureSpec is the most widely used verification IP product for simulating and verifying PCI Express design interfaces. PureSpec models all devices in the PCI Express topology, including the root complex, switch, endpoint, and PCI Express to PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). bridge. Within PureSpec, all protocol layers (physical, data link, transaction) of the PCI Express specification are completely modeled and can be simulated concurrently or independently. The product contains thousands of assertions that are monitored during simulation to ensure compliance with the PCI Express specification and interoperability with other PCI Express devices. The PureSpec product provides seamless integrations to all popular 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. tools and verification languages. |
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