Integrated tool accelerates verification

ZAiQ's Systemware and EVE's ZeBu have been integrated to produce a transaction-based verification platform.

ZAiQ's Systemware and EVE's ZeBu have been integrated to produce a transaction-based verification platform.

This integrated tool accelerates verification by up to five orders of magnitude over pure logic simulators.

For example, on a network processor SoC containing 550,000 ASIC gates plus 2.5Mbit of RAM, ZeBu/ZAiQ achieved up to 100,000 times speedup.

Most tests were in the range of 1000 to 10,000 times.

In general, acceleration varies with the type and size of the design and test suite.

ZeBu - for zero bugs - is a hardware-assisted verification platform used to accelerate the verification process of ASIC and FPGA designs and the software development cycle for embedded software designs.

Installed on a designer's desktop, it offers the same hardware debugging capabilities found in high-end emulation systems at a higher speed and at a fraction of the cost.

Systemware provides designers with a preconfigured, rapidly usable transaction-based system level verification environment for complex designs, along with an extensive library of verification intellectual property (IP) to comprehensively and efficiently test those designs.

It offers a transaction-based verification environment running on the ZeBu system using the Accellera standard co-emulation application programming interface (SCE-API).

ZAiQ's verification IP, called Systemware verification components (SVCs), supports the SCE-API down to the synthesisable bus functional model (BFM) level.

SVCs are available for standard interfaces and protocols such as Amba, USB and Ethernet.

"ZAiQ's transactions-based Systemware products increase the adoption of EVE's leading-edge product", states Luc Burgun, EVE's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President.

"The integration of ZeBu and Systemware provides true electronic system level - or ESL - verification and dramatically reduces the time design teams spend verifying their chip and system designs".

Adds Rich McAndrew, Executive Vice President and General Manager of ZAiQ's Systemware Products Group: "Combining SCE-API transaction-based verification with state-of-the-art hardware-assisted functional verification offers designers an extraordinary price/performance ratio.

The EVE team has delivered a compelling board-level solution for hardware debugging, hardware-software coverification, and embedded software development.

ZAiQ's Systemware and synthesisable standards-based verification IP and EVE's ZeBu provides designers with a cost-effective alternative for high-performance verification".

Additionally, ZAiQ and EVE have entered into a value-added reseller agreement that allows EVE customers to order the integrated ZeBu and Systemware solution directly from EVE and to use off-the-self standard transactors from ZAiQ's Systemware library of SVCs.

US pricing for ZeBu/SVC starts at $66,600.

It is shipping now.

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