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News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK
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Team on 28 February 2003
ATI signs for three-year support deal
Mentor Graphics is to supply ATI Technologies with an integrated tool suite that will be used to verify its high-performance graphics processors and digital media silicon.
Mentor Graphics has signed a multiple-year agreement to supply ATI Technologies with an integrated tool suite that will be used to verify its high-performance graphics processors and digital media silicon ATI develops the world's highest-performance video processors for desktop, notebook, workstation, set-top box, game console and handheld applications
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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ATI Technologies will use the Mentor Graphics VStation 15M and 30M emulation systems, Calibre DRC, LVS and RVE physical verification products, FastScan, DFTAdvisor and BSDArchitect Design-for-Test (DFT) tools.
The emulation tools are part of the Mentor Graphics functional verification flow that features tools for full system-level testing prior to tapeout, including emulation and formal verification.
The functional verification tool flow complements the tools for physical verification and test, including Calibre for deep submicron verification and FastScan for automatic test pattern generation (ATPG).
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"We selected Mentor Graphics after careful review and evaluation of competitive products", said Raymond Li, Vice President of Engineering at ATI Technologies.
"The VStation emulators provide the best overall price versus capacity ratio, compared to the other systems we evaluated.
VStation has proven its worth on prior projects at ATI.
This latest evaluation confirms that ATI will continue to use hardware emulators to assure the quality and to meet the demanding schedules for our next-generation graphics processors".
ATI will use the VStation-30M system to emulate designs in excess of 20 million gates.
The VStation emulators are used by ATI to test design performance using industry-standard benchmarks, such as Winbench and WHQL (for Windows/hardware compatibility), all prior to design tapeout and fabrication.
"As ATI's emulation partner, the company will leverage the proven reliability of our emulation platform and integration with other Mentor Graphics verification and test tools, to help them achieve complete confidence in the quality of their designs", said Eric Selosse, Vice President of the Mentor Emulation Division.
Ron White, Manager of Hardware Emulation at ATI, added: "VStation hardware emulators allow ATI to verify new ASIC designs in a way that cannot be accomplished using simulation alone.
Mentor Graphics' sales and technical support has been outstanding and this helps make our functional verification process very effective".
The three-year-term licence also includes the Calibre family of products, the industry standard for deep submicron verification.
Calibre products include Calibre DRC (design rule checking), Calibre LVS (layout versus schematic) and Calibre RVE (for cell/block and full chip design debugging).
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