Wolfson Microelectronics Chooses Verific HDL Component Software; Verific Now Part of Internal Design Environment.EDINBURGH, U.K., and ALAMEDA, Calif. -- Wolfson Microelectronics plc (LSE LSE - Language Sensitive Editor : WLF WLF Washington Legal Foundation WLF Wallis and Futuna (ISO Country code) WLF Waist Level Finder (camera viewfinder type) WLF Viva La Figa (MotoGP motorcycle races) .L), a leading supplier of mixed-signal semiconductors for the digital consumer electronics market, today announced it has purchased software from Verific Design Automation and is using it as part of its internal design environment. The increasing digital complexity of Wolfson's advanced mixed-signal products has motivated a transition of its digital design flow from a partly schematic, partly Verilog hardware description language (language) Hardware Description Language - (HDL) A kind of language used for the conceptual design of integrated circuits. Examples are VHDL and Verilog. (HDL (Hardware Description Language) A language used to describe the functions of an electronic circuit for documentation, simulation or logic synthesis (or all three). Although many proprietary HDLs have been developed, Verilog and VHDL are the major standards. ), flow to a fully Verilog HDL based flow. Verific's HDL Component Software provides a ready-made field-proven Verilog parser A routine that analyzes a continuous flow of text-based input and breaks it into its constituent parts. See parse. (language) parser - An algorithm or program to determine the syntactic structure of a sentence or string of symbols in some language. and analyzer, which Wolfson is incorporating into its proprietary mixed signal design software. This enables control and manipulation of digital HDL modules in a common framework together with the analogue aspects of the circuit designs. "Verific's tool does exactly what we need to improve our design flow for mixed-signal chips," says Jim Reid, Wolfson Microelectronics' Chief Technical Officer. "As a result, Verific has become an important design tool partner, helping us to construct an integrated tool set for mixed-signal design." "Many semiconductor companies have developed internal design systems and/or flows," adds Michiel Ligthart, Verific's vice president of operations. "Quite often, you find those patched together with TCL See Tcl/Tk. Tcl - Tool Command Language or PERL scripts providing some kind of Verilog support. Wolfson Microelectronics realized its designers' need for a professional solution, and integrated Verific's Verilog parser/analyzer instead. At the end, this is all about quality and productivity." About Wolfson Microelectronics Wolfson Microelectronics plc (LSE: WLF.L) is an award winning, 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. based in Edinburgh, UK. Wolfson develops and markets high performance mixed signal semiconductors for multimedia and communications applications worldwide. The company currently has sales offices in the USA, Japan, China, Taiwan and Korea. Wolfson Microelectronics plc, Westfield House, 26 Westfield Road, Edinburgh, EH11 2QB, United Kingdom, Tel: +44 (0) 131 272 7000, Fax: +44 (0) 131 272 7001, Email: sales@wolfsonmicro.com, Web: www.wolfsonmicro.com About Verific Design Automation Verific Design Automation was founded in 1998 by electronic design automation (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. ) industry veteran Rob Dekker. It develops and sells C++ source code-based Verilog and VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) A hardware description language (HDL) used to design electronic systems at the component, board and system level. VHDL allows models to be developed at a very high level of abstraction. front ends -- parsers, analyzers and elaborators -- as well as a generic hierarchical netlist database for EDA applications. Verific's technology has been licensed in many applications, combined shipping more than 20,000 end-user copies. Corporate headquarters is located at: 1516 Oak Street, Suite 115, Alameda, Calif. 94501. Telephone: (510) 522-1555. Facsimile number: (510) 522-1553. Email: info@verific.com. Website: http://www.verific.com. Wolfson Microelectronics and Verific Design Automation acknowledge trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services. |
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