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News Release from: ARM
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 August 2003
Axis aids in integrated verification
flow
Axis Systems and ARM have signed an agreement to develop a fully integrated, system-level verification flow for ARM cores and the ARM PrimeXsys Platform.
Axis Systems and ARM have signed an agreement to develop a fully integrated, system-level verification flow for ARM cores and the ARM PrimeXsys Platform The flow will be optimised for acceleration and emulation through Axis, who will deliver all levels of verification in a single product that supports ARM hardware and software models
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Axis will further integrate the ARM leading technologies and cores into its XoC platform for the embedded market, a complete verification system for ARM microprocessor-based designs, from block-level testing through application software.
Axis will also be joining the ARM PrimeXsys Community Programme, bringing the power of XoC platform verification to PrimeXsys Platform licensees, offering them a simple, complete verification solution for the PrimeXsys Platforms.
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"Embedded designs are becoming increasingly complex due to increased use of both hardware and software, which is growing the gap between design and verification", said Steve Wang, cofounder of Axis Systems.
"The ARM methodology and platform-based designs enable us to address this through their high performance, lower system cost, and increasing proliferation.
This new partnership with ARM enables us to help our customers solve their design challenges".
"A comprehensive verification flow is important to our Partners, because the growing size and complexity of SoC designs render many traditional point-tool verification inadequate", said Noel Hurley, EDA Relations Manager, ARM.
"Now that the ARM PrimeXsys Platform, which offers a unifying software development environment, will be coupled with the Axis XoC platform, we will be able to better address our Partners' verification and cosimulation needs and make fast, cost-efficient system design emulation a reality".
The Axis XoC platform for the embedded market is an all-inclusive, unified system that reduces communications overhead and eliminates time-intensive integration efforts for design teams.
With XoC designers can verify at multiple levels of abstraction including gates, RTL and behavioural.
XoC enables the smooth transition between all nine different operating modes to support block level testing, directed test generation, random test generation, initialisation test software, diagnostic test software, in-circuit interface testing, device drivers, RTOS porting and application software.
It also features a coverification debugger that creates a common communication environment between hardware and software teams through Amba transactions.
It enables software designers to verify code functionality, before silicon, without having to learn hardware verification methodologies.
The integration of the ARM leading technology - including its cycle-callable model (CCM), FPGA soft macrocell models (SMMs) based on RealView logic tiles, and the RealView range of software debuggers - into the XoC platform, creates an even more streamlined flow for design teams.
The ARM CCM is the most flexible and highest performance software model for simulation acceleration, and its new SSM is the highest performance ARM hardware model for emulation.
The RealView logic tile is the basic building block for the SMM, it helps developers build prototypes more quickly than point solution FPGA boards, and includes IP security features.
Axis is the first company to fully integrate, deliver and support the SSM, CCM and software debuggers in its product, bringing more powerful functionality to the XoC platform.
The Axis XoC platform for ARM processors, which includes Axis' patented RCC reconfigurable computing technology, coverification debugger, Xtreme emulation system, hardware/software coverification and in-circuit emulation models for the ARM7 core, ARM9 core, ARM10 core and ARM11 core families, transaction-level API, and a synthesisable model interface that supports AMBA testbench development in a single kernel system, is available now through Axis Systems.
The Axis XoC platform with Integrator logic tile, CCM and software debuggers will be available to beta customers in August 2003.
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