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News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK
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Team on 07 December 2001
Alcatel Canada standardises on Mentor
Celaro
Alcatel Canada has adopted the Mentor Graphics Celaro emulation environment for its Kanata, Ontario location for local and remote use by Alcatel sites worldwide.
Alcatel Canada has adopted the Mentor Graphics Celaro emulation environment for its Kanata, Ontario location for local and remote use by Alcatel sites worldwide After an extensive competitive evaluation period, Alcatel Canada selected Mentor's Celaro emulator to replace its existing emulation technology in order to handle Alcatel's current ASIC design capacity of up to five million gates
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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In addition, Mentor's emulation environment enables remote access and capacity sharing, allowing Alcatel to maximise its resources between global sites.
The new Celaro system at Alcatel's Canada location, combined with the existing Celaro environment in Alcatel's Belgium site, creates a Celaro emulation farm available to Alcatel design teams around the world.
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Through Celaro's remote access capabilities, Alcatel's global design teams will gain access to this powerful verification resource for their most critical and strategic projects.
In addition to its remote access capabilities, Celaro also enables sharing of a single system by multiple concurrent users, further optimising productivity and return on investment.
Mentor Consulting has been a key partner for Alcatel since 1997 when the company first adopted emulation-based methodology in Europe.
For the Canada site, Mentor worked closely with Alcatel to integrate Celaro into Alcatel's design verification methodologies and to set up a project-specific design verification environment for use on one of Alcatel's leading-edge networking chipsets.
"Alcatel Canada selected Celaro emulation as the solution for system verification based on multiple factors, including Celaro's ability to handle both cosimulation and in-circuit verification, its valuable multiuser sharing and remote access features, and the opportunity it offered to align and enhance design environments and methodologies over many design centers in different locations", said Charlie Sabry, director of ASIC development, Alcatel Canada.
"We expect that a Celaro-centric emulation farm will extend and multiply the productivity benefits to Alcatel design teams around the globe".
Alcatel has used remote emulation with the Celaro emulator throughout its design centres in Europe for the past three years.
The technology has been used collaboratively by remote design teams on multiple Alcatel projects, including xDSL, networking applications, optical transmission and satellite technologies.
Centralised resources are used for accelerating ASIC validation and regression testing and for full system validation with the Celaro emulator that is connected to different target systems (in-circuit).
"Alcatel has been using Celaro in Europe in shared mode and remote access for securing project schedules, as well as quality product levels, among multiple design sites", said Rudi Dierckx, vice president, central engineering, broadband networking division, Alcatel.
"Our use of Celaro in Europe was one of the factors that helped us get our ADSL products to market significantly ahead of the competition, enabling us to attain a leading market share position.
The choice for investing in ASIC development capabilities after carefully evaluating the priorities within Alcatel, indicates the continued focus and dedication of Alcatel to maintain its leadership".
"The use of remote emulation enables Alcatel to share capacities and complete faster design iterations.
These capabilities, in addition to Celaro's support for multiple asynchronous clocks, are essential in the development of complex telecomms applications like Alcatel's", said Eric Selosse, general manager, Meta Systems division, Mentor Graphics.
Based on Mentor's "custom emulator on silicon" (CEOS) architecture, the Celaro system is a leading custom emulation technology based on patented design debug capabilities, which are comparable to a software simulator, but orders of magnitude faster.
With design compilation capabilities that exceed those of commercial FPGA-based emulators, and high design capacity, the Celaro emulator is the only system that has sufficient performance for today's complex SoC designs.
Celaro-based emulation methodology is part of Mentor Consulting's system verification services offering.
Mentor Consulting is a provider of innovative solutions addressing today's design and verification challenges.
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