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News Release from: ARM
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 January 2004
Library access programme speeds design
tools
ARM has founded its RealView Model Library Access Programme with Prosilog and Emulation and Verification Engineering (EVE) as inaugural members.
ARM has founded its RealView Model Library Access Programme with Prosilog and Emulation and Verification Engineering (EVE) as inaugural members The new programme will enable support of ARM models in the tools of medium-sized EDA partners, expanding the number of tool choices for ARM core-based developers who seek to reduce time to market with fast simulation and verification technology
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The ARM RealView Model Library Access Programme will provide access to ARM micro-architectural RTL and SystemC models enabling integration of RealView Model library models with the products of EDA vendors.
Participating EDA vendors will also gain access interface specifications and integration guides in order to ensure their products will suit the needs of ARM core-based developers.
In turn, these developers will benefit from an increasingly wide range of EDA tools with which to build ARM core-based microprocessor solutions in a timely and cost-efficient manner.
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"ARM is dedicated to the creation of a community in which developers have at their disposal the broadest range of tools to reduce the time to market of their products", said Duncan Bryan, EDA Relations Manager, ARM.
"Designers using products developed by RealView Model Library Access Programme Partners, such as the Prosilog's Magillem integration platform or EVE's ZeBu (Zero Bugs) emulation platform, can be confident that these tools offer excellent support for the ARM RealView Model Library".
"Our customers have been asking for the availability of processor cores, described either at micro-architectural or at transactional levels within the Magillem platform", said Marcel Saussay, CEO of Prosilog.
"Our partnership with ARM and the integration of the ARM RealView models into the Magillem platform enables our customers to perform architecture exploration as early as possible in the design cycle, and therefore reduce time-to-market".
The ARM RealView models, both micro-architectural RTL and SystemC, enhance the hardware-software cosimulation capabilities included in the Magillem platform.
The combination eases the development of software code with hardware platforms that are described either in VHDL, Verilog or in SystemC at different levels of abstraction.
The Prosilog performance analysis tools then ease the hardware-software partitioning as well as the verification phases of the complete SoC.
"ARM is the undisputed leader in the embedded processors solution market and joining the RealView Model Library Access Programme gives us an opportunity to strengthen our relationship", said Dr Luc Burgun, EVE's CEO and President.
"This partnership will enable us to offer high-performance and low-cost verification solutions based on our ZeBu emulation platform to shorten the time-to-market for ARM IP-based SoC designs".
EVE's ZeBu is a hardware-assisted verification platform used to accelerate the verification process of SoC designs and the development cycle for embedded software designs.
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