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Quickturn Ships Record Number of Emulation Gates Worldwide with the MercuryPlus In-Circuit Emulation System, Featuring Custom FPGAs
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 19, 2001--
Quickturn, a company of Cadence® Design Systems, Inc.
(NYSE:CDN), today announced that sales of MercuryPlus(TM) have set new
company records, exceeding projections for unit sales and total number
of gates. Texas Instruments' (TI) recent selection of the MercuryPlus
system represents the largest recorded sale in Quickturn(TM)'s
history. The MercuryPlus system for in-circuit emulation, the newest
member of the Mercury(TM) family of products, is based on custom field
programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) specifically optimized for emulation
http://www.quickturn.com/w_new/rps.htm.
In addition to MercuryPlus, TI also selected CoBALTPlus and
Quickturn Time-to-Market Engineering (TtME(TM)) services as part of
its recent EDA agreement with Cadence, the largest EDA agreement TI
has ever executed.
``It's clear that customers are finding high value with these
systems,'' said Ray Turner, in-circuit emulation product line manager
for Quickturn. ``With compile rates of over one million gates per hour,
debug environments that eliminate recompiles, and high execution
rates, these products deliver the exact features designers need to
effectively verify today's IC designs.''
According to Charlie Simon, manager of EDA software and
intellectual property asset management at TI, ``Quickturn's emulation
products are an essential part of TI's digital signal processing (DSP)
and wireless design verification environment. Hardware-software
co-verification is a crucial step in TI's development of custom
solutions and pre-design release delivery of our intellectual property
to large customers.
TI will use MercuryPlus to design systems for mixed-signal and
DSP-based solutions for the wireless, networking, and mass-storage
markets. TI selected MercuryPlus because it offers tremendous capacity
and ease-of-use for design preparation and debug, and delivers the
fastest run-time performance, thus yielding more design turns per day.
Custom FPGA Technology Increases Designer Productivity
MercuryPlus delivers performance that is up to 20 times faster
than competitive emulation systems and compiles designs on a single
workstation. This significantly accelerates turnaround time and
increases overall designer productivity.
MercuryPlus features new technology based on Quickturn-designed
custom FPGAs that are optimized for emulation. Quickturn contracted
with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's
largest and most successful dedicated independent semiconductor
foundry, to produce these custom chips. This allowed Quickturn to
deliver emulation capability based on state-of-the-art semiconductor
technology.
MercuryPlus Now Available Via the QuickCycles Program
MercuryPlus and all Quickturn emulation, simulation acceleration,
and rapid prototyping products are available through the
QuickCycles(TM) program. Using high-speed, secure network connections,
QuickCycles delivers the power of Quickturn products via remote access
on a pay-as-you-go basis.
Pricing and Product Availability
MercuryPlus began shipping in September 2000 and is available on
the Sun Solaris, Hewlett Packard HP-UX, and the IBM AIX platforms.
U.S. list price starts at $595,000. QuickCycles and TtME services are
also available worldwide. Pricing varies based on design size,
verification time, and additional services required.
For more information, contact a Quickturn sales representative at
408/914-6000. Outside of North America contact the Quickturn
representative in your area (www.quickturn.com/about/location.htm).
About Quickturn
Quickturn, a Cadence company, is the leading provider of
high-performance verification solutions and Time-to-Market Engineering
(TtME) services for the design and verification of complex IC and
electronic systems. Developers of high-performance computing,
multimedia, graphics, and communications systems use Quickturn
products and services. For more information, visit the Quickturn Web
site at http://www.quickturn.com, call 408/914-6000, or send email to
info@quickturn.com.
About Cadence
Cadence is the largest supplier of electronic design automation
products, methodology services, and design services used to accelerate
and manage the design of semiconductors, computer systems, networking
and telecommunications equipment, consumer electronics, and a variety
of other electronics-based products. With approximately 5,400
employees and revenues in the year 2000 of approximately $1.3 billion,
Cadence has sales offices, design centers, and research facilities
around the world. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. and
traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CDN. More
information about the company, its products and services may be
obtained from the World Wide Web at www.cadence.com.
Note to Editors: Cadence and the Cadence logo are registered
trademarks and Quickturn, Mercury, MercuryPlus, QuickCycles, and TtME
are trademarks of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All other trademarks
are the property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Quickturn, A Cadence Company
Kristin Boucher, 408/914-6635
kristin@quickturn.com
or
Armstrong Kendall, Inc.
Laura Garrett, 503/672-4690
laura@akipr.com
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