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News Release from: IKOS Systems | Subject: VHDL for VStation
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 08 June 2001
Emulation speeds up to 2MHz with VHDL
IKOS Systems has added VHDL capability to its VStation emulators.
IKOS Systems has added VHDL capability to its VStation emulators Currently available for early adopters, VHDL for VStation provides a full-featured emulation environment for VHDL designs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Early adopters of the full-featured VHDL on VStation product flow are very excited about the increased productivity this brings to the VStation emulation environment", said Linda Prowse Fosler, vice president of marketing for IKOS Systems.
"Our customers can expect to see dramatic improvements in their overall verification schedule as a result of the improved turnaround time".
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Ramon Nunez, CEO and president for IKOS Systems, commented: "Providing our customers with a fully integrated VHDL capability is an important step for IKOS and our users.
Customers will realise emulation speeds up to 2MHz and RTL compiles of 1-3 million gates per hour, dramatically decreasing the time it takes for design iterations".
Integrated VHDL support on VStation emulators allows customers to input and debug their designs at the RTL level, significantly reducing their overall verification schedules.
This is made possible by the IKOS RTL compiler, with speeds 10-20 times faster than competing solutions, and the ability to analyse designs at the RTL level of abstraction.
Designers can isolate design problems quickly and reduce their overall verification schedule.
This new product offers incremental compile and automatic partitioning for RTL and behavioural blocks, giving users a simplified flow for bringing up their VHDL designs on the emulator.
In addition, integration with the Debussy TM GUI from Novas Software provides users with features such as graphical schematic browsing, driver tracing and source code debug.
It is expected that design bring-up time will be reduced by 50% on average, and turnaround time improved threefold compared with competing solutions.
This offering complements the Verilog RTL capabilities currently available on the VStation emulator.
VHDL on VStation will be available for general distribution in Q3 2001 for customers of the new VStation-15M emulator, as well as the VStation-5M emulator.
For new and existing customers, these new capabilities are available as an upgrade for $25,000 (US).
Entry level VStation-5M and 15M pricing begins at $495,000 and $940,000, respectively (US).
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