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Adelante Technologies and Mentor Graphics Partnership Provides Platform-Based SoC Design and Verification for DSP
WILSONVILLE, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2001--Mentor Graphics
Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) and Adelante Technologies have formed a
partnership that will enable Mentor Graphics to broaden the scope of
its Platform Express(TM) System-on-Chip (SoC) design kit to include
SoC embedded digital signal processing (DSP).
The collaboration will enable developers in the high-volume
consumer electronics industry -- particularly in the areas of
multimedia, and next generation wireless -- to rapidly create,
configure and verify platform-based system-on-chip designs.
Systems integration can cause a major bottleneck in today's SoC
designs. The SoC-DSP Platform Express addresses this issue by offering
an open development platform that enables multi-core SoC design and
verification of hardware and software. This is a major step forward in
increasing the speed of development for SoC-based designs. Adelante
Technologies and Mentor Graphics aim to make the first product
available during the first half of 2002.
``This is a win-win partnership for Mentor Graphics and Adelante
Technologies,'' said Serge Leef, general manager of the SoC
Verification Division at Mentor. ``It enables us to offer our design
methodology to a wider market, while helping Adelante Technologies
fulfill its objective of offering its DSP technologies on multiple
platforms. The partnership could mark the beginning of even greater
cooperation between the two companies which could lead to a SoC-DSP
software development platform that enables third party software
developers to remotely debug their software on the virtual SoC
hardware.''
Launched in August 2001, Platform Express is the semiconductor
design industry's first environment for rapidly creating, configuring
and verifying platform-based SoC designs. The agreement with Adelante
Technologies follows similar partnerships with Oki and Altera Corp,
which enable Mentor Graphics to provide Platform Express design kits
for popular SoC platforms.
``The collaboration with Mentor Graphics is proof of Adelante
Technologies' commitment to helping our customers develop open-system
architectures on which the next generation of wireless and personal
multimedia products can be built,'' said Karsten Popp, who has recently
moved from Mentor Graphics to become chief executive officer and
chairman at Adelante Technologies. ``It will enable us to deliver
best-in-class embedded DSP solutions to a far wider portfolio of
customers, providing them with the benefits of reduced time to market
and reduced project costs.
``The partnership also enables me to utilize my nine years of
experience at Mentor Graphics -- a leader in System Verification
platforms that enable the rapid and reliable integration of components
from multiple sources -- to help Adelante Technologies realize its
objective of leading the new paradigm for open SoC-DSP.''
Platform Express enables design teams to build and configure a
platform core and its corresponding peripherals and software in a
virtual prototype. Platform Express simultaneously generates a custom
verification environment to verify interfaces in the portion of the
design surrounding the embedded processor and its attached
peripherals. By automating design creation and verification steps the
solution shaves months off product development cycles and enables
designers to focus on product differentiators.
Using Platform Express, designers can browse through a library of
available processors, memories and peripherals and drag-and-drop
selected items into a graphical editor. Platform Express provides a
graphical user interface that enables users to create systems as block
diagrams. It creates automatically the necessary connections between
components, depending on a selection of standard buses, including AMBA
and VCI. In addition, it includes a memory map display that
automatically displays utilization of address space.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) is a world leader in
electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products,
consulting services and award-winning support for the world's most
successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in
1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of more
than $600 million and employs approximately 2,975 people worldwide.
Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road,
Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777; Silicon Valley headquarters are
located at 1001 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, California 95131-2314.
World Wide Web site: www.mentor.com.
About Adelante Technologies
Adelante Technologies was founded in June 2001 as a result of a
merger between the DSP division of Philips Semiconductors and Frontier
Design and offers complete solutions for SoC embedded signal
processing enabling the implementation of high-performance, low-cost
and feature rich consumer devices. Solutions are based on offering a
family of licensable and open DSP cores, application specific
coprocessors, software tools and design methodologies plus extensive
SoC and application design services. More information can be found on
our website: http://www.adelantetech.com
Mentor Graphics is a registered trademark and Platform Express is
a trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company and/or
product names are the trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their
respective owners.
Contact:
Mentor Graphics
Larry Toda, 503/685-1664
larry_toda@mentor.com
or
Adelante Contact -
The William Baldwin Group
Nancy B. Green, 650/856-6192
nancy@william-baldwin.com
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