UbiNetics Choose Beach Solutions' EASI Generation Tools to Smooth Out Interface Problems in System Development
UbiNetics, a major developer of 2.5/3G terminal IP, reference designs, testing and measurement equipment, has chosen Beach Solutions' documentation, software and hardware generation tools to enhance its design flow for SoC designs
January 2002
"IP integration and ASIC development are key design tasks for us "says Gareth Dixon, R&D director at UbiNetics. "A design might typically have hundreds of registers requiring documentation and associated interface software to be written. Experience has shown that doing this manually is very error prone. It can cause errors that ripple through the project, potentially resulting in major rework and costs downstream. Beach Solutions' tools make these errors avoidable by using centralized and validated data from which all the low level documentation, software and hardware is automatically generated".
Phil Ainsley, a technical specialist at Beach, comments: "by using EASI-tools, common human-introduced errors such as simple naming inconsistencies, over-lapping of registers and illegal register accesses in software can all be avoided."
Gareth Dixon adds "we wish to keep the ability to target designs to different architectures, so portability is very important. EASI-VHDL allows us to generate the bus interface for each of our IP blocks. The tool also allows us to port IP blocks to different products, and bus architectures. At the same time we automatically get the associated software API and product documentation in a totally consistent form."
UbiNetics supplies terminal IP to terminal and semiconductor companies. This includes chip designs, protocol software and device reference designs.
The EASI-Tools family includes generators for C and C++ interface libraries, test suites, IP and SoC reference manuals (in RTF and HTML) and bus interfaces in both VHDL and Verilog.
By generating all components from one common electronic specification, design consistency is assured. Extensive checking at the time of data entry avoids manually induced errors right from the start of a project. Support for design data import and export is provided using XML, giving an open interface for inter-operability with other leading industry tools. For further information on Beach Solutions please email info@beachsolutions.com or visit the web site www.beachsolutions.com
For further information on Ubinetics 2.5G and 3G terminal IP, contact Jeffery Torrance (Jeffery.Torrance@UbiNetics.com), or visit the web site www.UbiNetics.com
Embedded Application System Interfaces (EASI's), EASI-Tools, EASI-VHDL and EASI-Verilog are trademarks of Beach Solutions Ltd. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
About Beach Solutions
Beach Solutions is a 6-year-old embedded systems consultancy and tools company with its engineering office in Tavistock, Devon UK, and commercial operations in Reading, UK and California, USA. It has extensive experience in embedded system hardware and software design including automatic generation, modelling and simulation technologies. More information can be found at www.beachsolutions.com.
About UbiNetics
UbiNetics is a next generation wireless communications technology company developing innovative 3G, 2.5G and 2G products and solutions for wireless data and voice applications with an enviable position as the world leader in 3G test and measurement equipment.
The company's 3G Test Mobile and Node B Emulator have become the industry de-facto standard for W-CDMA infrastructure and handset testing. These have become widely accepted as the test tools of choice.
UbiNetics also provides the industry's most robust IP portfolio for 3G chipset and handset developers and manufacturers.
The company has developed a unique range of creative products for GPRS/GSM applications including customised embedded modules and GPRS development tools, PC cards and companion radio products for handheld and laptop computers.
The company was formed in January 1999 from PA Consulting Group's Wireless Telecommunications Practice.
Since 1999 UbiNetics has grown to over 300 employees with six international offices in the UK (Cambridge, Global Headquarters, and Swindon), Hong Kong, Japan, India and the US.
For further press information
Beach Solutions
UK: Terry McCloskey Tel: + 44 0118 9835705 Email: terry.mccloskey@beachsolutions.com
USA: Guy Pakenham Tel: +1 949 9168468, Email: guy.pakenham@beachsolutions.com
UbiNetics (UK)
Judith Bliss Tel: +44 7714 697 164(M), +44 1763 262222
Email: judith.bliss@ubinetics.com
Glossary
EASI: Embedded Application System Interfaces
3G: 3rd generation cellular systems (e.g. UMTS)
2.5G: 2.5 generation cellular systems (e.g. GPRS/EDGE)
SoC: System on Chip
ASIC: Application Specific Integrated Circuit
IP: Intellectual Property
GSM: Global System for Mobile telecommunications
RTF: Rich Text Format (used in word processing)
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
XML: eXtensible Mark-up Language
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