Hardware accelerator offers huge capacity

An Emulation and Verification Engineering (EVE) product story

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Apr 25, 2007

EVE's ZeBu-AX offers plug-and-play, event-accurate mixed-language simulation acceleration..

EVE has released the ZeBu-AX next-generation hardware accelerator, designed for ease of use and offering close to unlimited capacity.

ZeBu-AX has become part of EVE's family of hardware-assisted verification solutions through EVE's recent acquisition of Tharas Systems.

A full product roadmap with details about its family of accelerators to fast emulators and prototyping solutions will be unveiled in June 2007.

"ZeBu-AX is the first collaboration with our combined development team and it's a momentous achievement", says Dr Luc Burgun, EVE's Chief Executive Officer and President.

"Research has shown that hardware acceleration continues to be an essential component of a design flow".

"ZeBu-Ax' flexibility, capacity and ease of use will ensure that it becomes the de facto standard in hardware acceleration".

ZeBu-AX offers plug-and-play, event-accurate mixed-language simulation acceleration.

A scalable capacity lets ZeBu-AX handle designs that can reach up to 512 million application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) gates.

Its one-pass compilation executes at a speed of 125 million ASIC gates per hour on a single workstation, mapping onto the accelerator not only the design-under-test but also a significant portion of the behavioural testbench.

The process is fully automatic and does not require user intervention.

Its single-kernel runtime environment works in co-simulation with Synopsys VCS, Mentor Graphics QuestaSim, Cadence NC-Sim.

It accelerates simulation from 10 to 1000 times faster than any hardware description language (HDL) simulator.

ZeBu-AX can manage especially large designs typical of graphics and processor designs that most HDL simulators cannot support.

ZeBu-AX supports RedHat and Suse Linux platforms.