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Quickturn Announces Palladium, the Most Advanced Simulation Acceleration and In-Circuit Emulation System
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2001-- Quickturn, a Cadence
company (NYSE:CDN), today introduced the Quickturn Palladium(TM)
design verification system. Palladium is the first in a series of new
products that deliver key functionality for the verification of
integrated circuits (ICs) and electronic systems. With Palladium,
design and verification engineers will now have a single, low cost,
easy-to-use system that integrates the powerful capabilities of
Quickturn(TM)'s market-leading simulation acceleration and in-circuit
emulation (ICE) technologies. Palladium is a convergence of a highly
scalable simulation and emulation hardware architecture with a tightly
integrated software environment. Made possible through the use of
advanced custom silicon technology, Palladium is a flexible and
affordable product that optimizes verification productivity.
Christopher J. Tice, Cadence® senior vice president and
Quickturn general manager said, ``Today's designs require engineers to
consider system-level verification platforms that can deliver the
ease-of-use and productivity of traditional simulation, and the
performance and functionality of simulation-acceleration and
in-circuit emulation. We've hit all of these key target requirements
with the development of Palladium.''
Tice continued, ``Only by verifying ICs at the system-level -- in
conjunction with system software -- can designers hope to meet their
quality and time-to-market requirements. At a time when many chip
designers worldwide are reviewing the costs and effectiveness of their
verification strategies, Palladium delivers an affordable platform
with fast design turns and high productivity, all in an easy-to-use
system.''
Benefits of the Quickturn Palladium Design Verification System
- Multi-function System with Extensive Verification Options --
Palladium delivers a complete range of verification options,
including easy integration into existing software testbench
environments. Delivering a range of simulation acceleration
options, Palladium offers accelerated co-simulation with
C/C++, behavioral testbenches, Cadence's market leading NC-Sim
logic simulation environment, Cadence's Signal Processing
Worksystem (SPW), and third-party testbench products. For the
highest performance, Palladium may also be used for
synthesizable testbench acceleration, vector regression, and
in-circuit emulation.
- New High-performance Transaction-based Co-simulation Interface
-- Palladium's high-speed transaction-based co-simulation
interface dramatically increases simulation-acceleration
performance. Palladium combines a new Transaction-based
application programming interface (API) with a new high-speed
co-simulation interface, boosting accelerated co-simulation
performance by at least an order of magnitude beyond current
alternative methodologies. Traditional accelerated
co-simulation performance is limited by the frequency and
latency of communication between the design and the testbench.
Palladium's transaction-based interface overcomes this
limitation by optimizing traffic and minimizing channel
latency. Coupled with Cadence's TestBuilder testbench
authoring technology, designers will have access to a unique
solution enabling them to generate more effective tests in
less time, and run them faster than ever possible.
- Rapid Compile Time Enables Maximum Verification Productivity
-- Palladium's high speed compiler optimizes register
transfer-level (RTL)-to-verification with compile times of
four million or more ASIC gates per hour on a single
workstation, and supports concurrent use by simulation and
emulation users. Rapid compile time effectively increases the
available debug time per user while concurrent use allows
multiple users to debug chips simultaneously. These
capabilities improve productivity by allowing designers to
find and fix more bugs each day than was ever before possible.
- Easy-to-Use Software Environment -- Quickturn developed
Palladium with ease of use in mind. Palladium features a new
unified verification software environment where all functions
-- RTL compilation through simulation acceleration,
co-simulation, and in-circuit emulation -- are controlled from
a single graphical user interface (GUI). Palladium
incorporates the best features of the Quickturn PowerSuite(TM)
and Quest-II(TM) software environments to create the ideal
debug environment.
- Custom Chip Technology -- Palladium combines Quickturn's
advanced compiler technology with a new custom emulation
integrated circuit fabricated on state-of-the-art, 0.12
micron, 7-layer copper process technology. Using the world's
most advanced emulation chip technology, Palladium
dramatically reduces compile time, increases chip utilization,
and performance.
- Flexibility to Expand -- The Palladium design verification
system can grow to meet future design needs and is expandable
to support up to 16 million ASIC gates. The Palladium
architecture incorporates scalable pulse-train inter-board
communication technology, which maintains constant in-circuit
performance even as designs expand across multiple system
boards. By maintaining in-circuit performance, Palladium
delivers the same high productivity as your designs grow in
size and complexity.
- Scalable Architecture is Key to New Product Line -- Palladium
is the first of a new line of multi-function verification
systems. Quickturn continues to ride the silicon technology
curve leveraging the world's most advance CMOS technology.
Future generations of Palladium will migrate to sub 0.1 micron
geometry silicon as fabrication capabilities come on line,
resulting in even higher levels of performance, capacity,
reliability and driving cost of ownership down.
- Complete Solutions for Vertical Applications -- Palladium can
be optimized for multimedia, wireless, networking, and
computer design with the addition of a Quickturn SpeedBridge
custom environment. SpeedBridge enables engineers to analyze
circuit behavior and debug designs in a real-world
environment, shaving months from product design cycles.
Pricing and Product Availability
The Quickturn Palladium design verification system is priced
depending on user configuration. U.S. list price starts at $0.35 per
gate. Quickturn will begin shipping Palladium worldwide in Q4 2001 and
will support the HP-UX, IBM-AIX, and Sun Solaris platforms. Palladium
will also be available through QuickCycles(TM), a turnkey program that
provides flexible access to Quickturn verification environments on a
per-project basis. For more information on product pricing and
availability, contact Quickturn in North America at 408-914-6000. For
pricing and availability outside of North America, visit
www.quickturn.com/about/location.htm for the name of the Quickturn
representative in your area.
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 5,400
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 may be obtained from the
World Wide Web at www.cadence.com.
Cadence and the Cadence logo are registered trademarks, and
Quickturn, Palladium, PowerSuite, Quest-II, QuickCycles, SpeedBridge,
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.
Bill Toelke, 503/672-4692
bill@akipr.com
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