Product category:
Design and Development Hardware
News Release from: IKOS Systems
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 27 July 2001
Transmeta to use IKOS VStation for
comodelling
IKOS Systems has received a sales order from Transmeta for its VStation-5M emulation and comodelling system.
IKOS Systems has received a sales order from Transmeta for its VStation-5M emulation and comodelling system The sale was in excess of $1 million
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Jun 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Transmeta will use VStation for early verification of hardware and software components with the overall system in the development of processors and chipsets targeted towards Internet appliance and laptop processor applications.
Godfrey D'Souza, director of VLSI design for Transmeta noted, "Certainly, VStation's comodelling capability was the critical advantage for us in selecting IKOS' technology.
In an era where there are a number of diverging emulation solutions, we were looking for a more fully integrated verification environment that would give us a significant edge in meeting our milestones.
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For Transmeta, that edge is the ability to move the hardware/software codesign and verification up into an earlier phase of the design flow.
We could not accomplish this with any other emulation product".
Ramon Nunez, president and CEO for IKOS Systems stated, "Transmeta's need to have software integration earlier in its design flow speaks specifically to the unique comodelling capability offered in our VStation-5M.
The targeted market applications of Internet appliances and laptop processors mandates that the processors and chipsets developed for those applications work right the first time.
There is no margin of error in terms of not having the software and hardware work correctly in the final system implementation or having to respin the chip if it does not work right on the first pass.
Transmeta's use of VStation-5M fits in exactly with our overall long-term market goals and strategies", continued Nunez.
"With VStation-5M we can address the broadest range of emulation needs through comodelling, in-circuit emulation or a combination of both.
Through this wide applicability, we believe that we will be poised to uniquely address the critical verification demands of some of the most rapidly growing target market segments in the areas of computing and communications".
Transmeta will use IKOS' VStation-5M in the development of processors and chipsets ranging in size from 3-5 million gates.
The processors are targeted towards Internet appliance and laptop end products.
Transmeta's premier product is the Crusoe processor, a low power x86-compatible family of solutions specially designed for the New World of Mobile Internet Computing.
Its proprietary code morphing technology is used to significantly reduce the processor's power consumption without sacrificing performance.
Advanced power management techniques maximise battery life by dynamically matching performance levels to application demand.
All Crusoe processors are fully x86 compatible, PC compatible, and Internet compatible.
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