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Quickturn and Spirent Communications Sign Exclusive Agreement to Deliver Unique Verification Solution for the Networking Market
SAN JOSE & CALABASAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 11, 2001--
Quickturn, a Cadence company (NYSE:CDN), and Spirent
Communications' SmartBits® Division today announced a cooperation,
development, and marketing agreement to deliver a new verification
solution for the Packet over SONET (POS) market. The new solution is
designed to enable system and integrated circuit (IC) developers of
Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) and Wide Area Network (WAN) equipment
to verify their applications early in the design process, dramatically
shortening the verification cycle for ICs and systems addressing the
POS market.
The POS solution is programmable and can be customized to support
different protocol standards such as UTOPIA 3/4, POS-PHY 3/4, and SPI
3/4. The environment is designed to emulate different data rates
ranging from OC-3/STM-1 to OC-768/STM-256. For the first time,
designers can test pre-tape-out, high-level application layers and
measure key metrics such as capacity, latency, and Internet Protocol
frame sequencing using emulated designs.
The Quickturn and Spirent Communications' verification solution
includes the award-winning SmartBits performance analysis system, a
customized SmartBits TeraMetrics(TM) plug-in emulation card developed
with Quickturn, and a Quickturn POS SpeedBridge(TM) card connected to
Quickturn's market-leading MercuryPlus(TM) or CoBALTPlus(TM) design
verification systems. For hardware/software co-verification, users can
debug their embedded software by connecting a Quickturn emulator to
the newly available PCI-X SpeedBridge plug-in card.
``We continue to partner with Quickturn on state-of-the-art
solutions for our mutual customers,'' said Bahaa Moukadam, vice
president product marketing, Spirent Communications' SmartBits
Division. ``This newly developed POS networking solution helps us
extend our customer base by providing a single development,
prototyping, and production verification solution to IC designers,
system manufacturers, and operators.''
``The development of our mutual POS verification solution, and the
depth of our cooperation with Spirent Communications, represents a
continuation of Quickturn's strategy to develop and deliver complete
verification environments built to enhance our core products. These
environments address the needs of specific vertical markets,'' said Ran
Avinun, marketing director for vertical solutions at Quickturn. ``Our
goal in developing vertical market solutions is to help customers
significantly reduce the bring-up time of their emulation environment
and bridge the gap between the verification of a pre-silicon system
and the final production environment. Quickturn's vertical solutions
can slash months from a design project's total verification cycle.''
Benefits of the POS Verification Environment
- Support of network protocol layers 2 to 7 -- With the new POS
verification environment, programmers can test protocols such
as MPLS, BGP-4, and OSPF with their emulated design. The
testing of network layers 2 to 7, with the fast turnaround
time and high visibility of Quickturn verification systems,
shortens the debugging cycle and speeds software development.
- Versatile platform for current and future standards -- The
same platform can be used for multiple data rates such as
OC-48, OC-192, and OC-768, and several interfaces such as
SPI-3, POS-PHY Level 3, and UTOPIA 3 for frame-based systems.
This also includes SONET-comparable SDH specifications such as
STM-16, STM-64, and STM-256.
- Comprehensive debugging -- Debugging features enable stress
tests, live traffic, corner cases, and quality of service
measurements. This environment generates real traffic at
different levels of service. Designers can analyze the
performance of each incoming stream and quantify the ability
of the device under test to handle the priority policies under
varying traffic loads.
- Same test platform for pre-tape-out design verification and
production testing -- Designers can use the same tester
platform from design to manufacturing, maintaining the same
scripts, testbench environment, and software protocols. This
enables users to receive consistent results with reduced
effort.
- Affordable -- For companies that do not have Quickturn
verification solutions in-house and face serious budget
constraints, the complete POS verification environment will be
available through the Quickturn QuickCycles(TM) program. The
QuickCycles program targets the needs of designers faced with
functional design verification bottlenecks, budget
constraints, and limited or no emulation experience.
QuickCycles provides remote access to the POS verification
environment through a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN)
connection.
Configuration and Availability
The new POS verification solution under development consists of a
Spirent SmartBits tester chassis (model SMB-600 or SMB-6000B),
SmartBits software, a customized plug-in POS TeraMetrics board, a
Quickturn POS SpeedBridge card, and a Quickturn verification system
(MercuryPlus or CoBALTPlus). Prices vary based on configuration. The
solution will be available through Quickturn and Spirent
Communications in third quarter 2001.
About Spirent Communications
Spirent Communications unites the best in performance analysis
technology with network operations expertise. Its solutions enable
customers to accelerate the development, deployment, and assurance of
next-generation network equipment and services worldwide.
Spirent Communications designs and manufactures the award-winning
Adtech, DLS, Edgcumbe, GSS, Hekimian, Net-HOPPER, SmartBits, TAS, and
Zarak products. More than 2,500 of the world's leading network and
terminal equipment manufacturers, network service providers, corporate
enterprises, and test laboratories rely on its first-to-market
products to verify and measure the performance and services of
networks and communications devices. For more information on Spirent
Communications visit www.spirentcom.com.
Spirent plc is the parent of Spirent Communications. Spirent is
quoted on the London Stock Exchange, ticker SPT. The company operates
at Level 1 American Depository Receipt program (ticker: SPNUY; CUSIP
number: 84856M100). For information, contact Brian Heston, The Bank of
New York, American Depository Receipts, 101 Barclay St., 22 West, New
York, N.Y. 10286, phone 212/815-3938, fax 212/571-3050, e-mail:
bheston@bankofny.com, www.aadrbny.com.
About Quickturn
Quickturn, a Cadence® company, is the leading provider of
high-performance verification solutions and Time-to-Market Engineering
(TtME(TM)) 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 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 5,700
employees and 2000 revenues 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 is available at
www.cadence.com.
Note to Editors: Cadence and the Cadence logo are registered
trademarks and Quickturn, MercuryPlus, CoBALTPlus, QuickCycles and
TtME are trademarks of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. SmartBits is a
registered trademark of Spirent Communications and TeraMetrics is a
trademark of Spirent Communications. 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.
Bill Toelke, 503/672-4692
bill@akipr.com
or
Spirent Communications
Mike Sanders, 818/676-2325
mike.sanders@spirentcom.com
or
Shocom, Inc. (For Spirent Communications)
Deana Murchison, 818/735-9748
deana@shocom.com
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