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Axis Systems' Groundbreaking Behavioral Processor Accelerates Non-Synthesizable Behavioral Code
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2001--
Axis Systems Inc. today announced Behavioral Processor, a new
system-on-chip verification technology that for the first time enables
chip designers to accelerate and emulate behavioral constructs in the
code used to build a chip.
Behavioral Processor increases the productivity of chip designers
and reduces verification cycle times for entire design teams.
``Our vision is to solve the verification productivity crisis for
designers of electronic systems and systems-on-a-chip,'' said Mike
Tsai, president and CEO of Axis Systems. ``By leveraging our
ReConfigurable Computing technology, we've accomplished another
milestone. Accelerating non-synthesizable behavioral code is a
groundbreaking capability never before available to chip designers.''
The new technology is implemented through behavioral-level
ReConfigurable Computing (RCC) processors that are mapped directly
onto FPGAs, enabling designers to accelerate the verification of
behavioral, RTL and gate-level code on a single platform that provides
simulation, acceleration and emulation. In contrast, traditional
hardware-based verification tools allow designers to accelerate only
RTL and gate level code, forcing designers to verify behavioral code
on software simulators, which are much slower than emulators and
accelerators.
Behavioral constructs are asynchronous in nature and require the
ability to dynamically schedule events without having to pre-determine
the execution timing of the design. This capability is possible only
in an event-driven system such as Axis' Xtreme, and cannot be attained
with cycle-based verification tools.
Behavioral Processor accelerates certain behavioral constructs
that have traditionally been bottlenecks in the chip verification
process, such as triggering and monitoring, cache memory management
and large arithmetic operations that are used in datapath-intensive
designs. In addition, Behavioral Processor accelerates testbench
operations that drive signals and monitor activities between a design
and its test. This technology will be applied to accelerate
industry-leading testbench languages such as OpenVera from Synopsys
Inc. and e from Verisity.
Behavioral Processor technology has been integrated into Axis'
Xtreme acceleration and emulation systems, and is already being used
by several Xtreme customers for production chip design.
About Axis Systems
Axis Systems Inc. offers high-performance verification platforms
for the hardware and software development of complex electronic system
and system-on-a-chip designs. Axis' products help increase confidence
in new designs, improve overall verification productivity and shorten
time to market.
On a single platform and with one design database, Axis' patented
ReConfigurable Computing (RCC) technology provides software
simulation, accelerated simulation, system emulation and
hardware/software co-verification. Axis' verification products go ``way
beyond fast'' -- they not only run fast, but also help customers
identify and isolate bugs in a design faster than any other tool on
the market.
Customers include the world's leading networking and multimedia
companies. Axis is headquartered at 209 Java Drive, Sunnyvale, CA
94089. To learn more about Axis, visit www.axiscorp.com.
Contact:
Axis
Yukari Chin, 408/588-2000 x154
yukari@axiscorp.com
or
Cayenne Communication
Lois DuBois, 650/854-5485
lois.dubois@cayennecom.com
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