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News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK | Subject: PSPs for Texas Instruments
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 22 February 2001
Mentor supports TI DSPs and MCUs
Mentor Graphics is the first to reach agreement with Texas Instruments to deliver coverification processor support packages (PSPs) for Texas Instruments DSP and microcontroller solutions.
Mentor Graphics is the first to reach agreement with Texas Instruments to deliver coverification processor support packages (PSPs) for Texas Instruments DSP and microcontroller solutions With the Mentor Graphics Seamless Co-Verification Environment (CVE), systems developers incorporating the near-universal Texas Instruments DSPs can now validate hardware/software interfaces in a virtual prototype prior to design fabrication
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Texas Instruments DSPs play a critical role in a variety of applications, like handheld devices, wireless infrastructure and desktop peripherals, where first-pass tape-out is often the difference between product success and failure.
The agreement comes in response to mutual customer demand for increased collaboration on co-verification technology between the two companies.
To support widespread Seamless usage at Texas Instruments, Seamless PSPs have become a standard element in the model creation process for Texas Instruments DSP solutions.
The agreement is a natural extension of making the models available to customers designing Texas Instruments DSPs into their products.
There is a tight dependency between Seamless and Texas Instruments DSP PSPs, so this new arrangement provides customers with a dedicated, central source for coverification technical support and process support packages from Mentor Graphics.
The PSPs sold and supported by Mentor Graphics have been verified against Texas Instruments' proprietary test suites to ensure accuracy.
The DSP PSPs support Texas Instruments' proprietary Code Composer Studio tools, already familiar to software engineers designing applications for Texas Instruments DSPs.
The PSPs work with all popular logic simulation platforms, including Model Technology's ModelSim simulation product, and are compatible with the extensive library of PSPs already available from Mentor Graphics for use in multiprocessor systems.
The PSPs are based on Texas Instruments' existing instruction set simulators, and interfaced to the Mentor Graphics Seamless CVET through an adaptor layer.
PSPs included in the initial agreement model the c27x, c54x, c55x, c62x Texas Instruments DSPs along with the ARM925 microcontroller core.
Further PSPs will be added, as they become available from Texas Instruments.
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