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Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: Emulation and Verification Engineering (EVE) | Subject: ZeBu
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 September 2003
Hardware/software integration speeds
verification
The ZeBu from Emulation and Verification Engineering can now be integrated with key software technology from Synplicity to help accelerate the verification of SoC designs.
The ZeBu from Emulation and Verification Engineering (EVE) can now be integrated with key software technology from Synplicity to help accelerate the verification of SoC designs EVE has also joined the Synplicity Partners in Prototyping Programme
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 May 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Synplicity's Certify and Synplify Pro software enable users to partition and synthesise their register transfer level (RTL) designs directly into ZeBu for a complete prototyping solution.
The software delivers fast compile times and offers mapping technology designed to deliver high-quality results for the Xilinx Virtex-II Platform field programmemable gate arrays (FPGAs) in ZeBu.
Through this partnership, EVE customers can use Synplicity's key software technology to implement their designs into the Xilinx Virtex II Platform FPGAs used in EVE's verification system.
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Integration speeds system-level verification
EVE has joined the Verisity Interoperability Partners programme and has integrated its ZeBu with Verisity's Specman Elite verification process automation solution.
The result is faster functional verification due to industry leading quality of results (QoR) and verification specific innovations.
ZeBu is a hardware-assisted verification platform used to accelerate the verification process of application specific integrated (ASIC) and FPGA designs and the software development cycle for embedded software designs.
Installed on a designer's desktop, ZeBu verifies designs up to 12 million ASIC equivalent gates, offering the same debugging capabilities found in high-end emulation systems, but at a higher speed and at a fraction of the cost.
"Synplicity is an important and valued partner", remarks EVE's Vice President of Marketing Lauro Rizzatti.
"Joining its partner programme ensures ZeBu customers have access to powerful software used for ASIC or FPGA prototyping".
The Partners In Prototyping programme provides a convenient source for information on prototyping solutions using Synplicity's software.
The Certify software is a proven tool that allows ASIC RTL designs to partitioned and synthesised directly into a multi-FPGA implementation.
The Certify product automatically performs a number of tasks necessary to take a design originally coded for an ASIC implementation and successfully target an FPGA implementation, such as conversion, partitioning, debug insertion, and timing optimisation.
Synplicity's Synplify Pro software is the leading solution for FPGA synthesis.
Synplify Pro offers the best QoR, ease of use, and complete FPGA vendor support that have made it the market share leader for FPGA synthesis with over 54 percent market share in 2001 according to Dataquest.
Adds Brian Caslis, Cerify product marketing director at Synplicity: "EVE is fast emerging as the leading supplier of hardware-assisted verification.
We welcome it into our programme and are committed to building the relationship".
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