EVE's Hardware-Assisted Verification Platform Used in Design of the P.A. Semi PWRficient Processor Family; P.A. Semi Core to Run on ZeBu-XL Platform at In-Stat Fall Processor Forum.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- EVE (Emulation and Verification Engineering) today announced that P.A. Semi P.A. Semi is a fabless semiconductor company founded in Santa Clara, California 2003 by Dan Dobberpuhl who was the lead designer for the DEC Alpha and StrongARM processors. has utilized its ZeBu-XL hardware-assisted verification platform in the design of its PWRficient platform processor. P.A. Semi unveiled its new multicore, 64-bit, scalable processor family today in conjunction with demonstrations based on ZeBu-XL during the In-Stat Fall Processor Forum at the Doubletree Hotel here. Over the last six months, P.A. Semi verified and interactively debugged its high-performance, low-power microprocessor core and system-on-chip (SoC) design using the ZeBu zebu (zē`by  ), domestic animal of the cattle family, Bos indicus, found in parts of E Asia, India, and Africa. (for Zero Bugs) high-speed, high-capacity emulation platform. Two ZeBu boxes were used concurrently for running different workload and random tests. Developed for large SoC designs, each has 32 Xilinx Virtex-II 8000 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). "ZeBu is the most impressive hardware-assisted verification platform on the market today," says Tse-Yu Yeh, Director of Architecture and Verification, P.A. Semi. "From our rigorous evaluations and then testing and 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. , EVE has built the best hardware-assisted verification solution available." Adds Lauro Rizzatti, general manager of EVE-USA and vice president of worldwide marketing: "P.A. Semi's designers put us through the paces and we're delighted that they are pleased with the results they got from using ZeBu." About Emulation and Verification Engineering EVE (Emulation and Verification Engineering) offers the fastest verification and most cycles per dollar by combining the best aspects of traditional emulation and rapid prototyping Building a part one layer at a time using a method of additive fabrication such as 3D printing. Such parts are used for concept modeling to determine if the product design meets the customer's expectations. systems into a single, unified environment for both 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. and SoC debugging and embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. validation. Its headquarters in the United States is San Jose, Calif. Telephone: (408) 881-0440. Fax: (408) 904-5800. Its corporate headquarters is located in Palaiseau, France. Telephone: (33) 1 64.53.27.30. Fax: (33) 1 64.53.27.40. Email: info@eve-team.com. Website: http://www.eve-team.com. EVE acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services. |
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