Quickturn Announces New Palladium Configurations and Software Supporting Designs Up to 128 Million Gates
New Co-simulation Channel, IP Card, and QuickCycles EXtended (EX) Access Program Deliver Higher Throughput and a Simplified User Environment at a Lower Cost of Ownership
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 3, 2002--
Quickturn(TM), a company of Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
(NYSE:CDN - News) today announced new models of its Palladium design
verification system, coupled with new software features that provide
higher simulation-acceleration performance and give engineers a
single, easy-to-use debug environment. The improved Palladium is a
single, scalable hardware and software environment supporting
configurations from two-million to 128-million ASIC gates. The
configurations also support up to 64 GB of memory and over 8,000
physical I/Os for target system interfacing.
Key to Palladium's improved co-simulation performance is a new
high-speed channel between the workstation and Palladium, which is
designed to lower inter-process latency and deliver increased
performance over the previous channel. This new channel is designed to
improve run-time performance by orders of magnitude over
software-based simulation tools. Software enhancements include a
tighter integration with Cadence NC-Sim and testbench automation
tools, such as Cadence® TestBuilder and Verisity's Specman Elite,
which streamlines debug at the transaction-level.
Also new is a standardized intellectual property (IP) card form
factor, that interfaces physical IP cores within Palladium's
IP-chassis to designs for both simulation-acceleration and in-circuit
emulation. Turnkey IP-cards with IP cores from ARM, Ltd. and TriMedia
Technologies, Inc., enable hardware/software co-verification at speeds
where embedded software can be developed and tested.
The new Palladium configurations and software will be available
for purchase as well as through the new QuickCycles EXtended (EX)
Access program. QuickCycles EX is an extension of QuickCycles that
gives customers the option of remote access to Quickturn's latest
technologies, or on-site access, with the equipment installed at the
customer's facility. At a pre-negotiated price per gate, customers can
add capacity to meet peak verification demands throughout the design
cycle.
"We used QuickCycles remote access to accelerate simulations of
our SANbox2(TM) Fibre Channel switch," said Mike Knudsen, vice
president and general manager, QLogic Network Storage Group. "In the
final 72 hours of the QuickCycles program, we ran 195 regression tests
-- representing 2.59 billion cycles. It would have easily taken us
many months to run that volume of regression testing using our
previous methodology. The QuickCycles project was so successful, we
purchased a Palladium system in December 2001 and have incorporated it
into our verification methodology for our next generation SANbox
design."
"Palladium enabled us to verify and debug the correctness of our
BIOS and drivers by running 2D/3D WinBench, Speedy, and a 3D game,"
said Rafael Gutierrez, 3D graphics software development manager at S3.
"Moving from event-driven simulation to Palladium for software
development is like going from a Pinto to a BMW in terms of
performance."
"Quickturn has sold more than 120 million gates of Palladium
systems worldwide, making it Quickturn's most successful product to
date," said George Zafiropoulos, vice president of marketing at
Quickturn. "By delivering the new enhancements to Palladium, and by
expanding on our successful QuickCycles program, Quickturn is meeting
our customers' demands for easier-to-use hardware-based verification
tools at a lower cost of ownership."
Product Availability and Pricing
New Palladium hardware and software configurations, which extend
capacity to 128 million gates and 64GB of memory, will be available in
Q3 2002. The new QuickCycles EX program is available immediately for
commitments from three to 36 months with U.S. list prices for base
configurations approximately $15,000 to $18,000 per million gates, per
month -- depending on configuration and term of commitment. 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 a 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 networking,
wireless, multimedia and computing 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 technologies,
methodology services, and design services. Cadence solutions are 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 5,600 employees and 2001 revenues of approximately $1.4
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 are
available at www.cadence.com.
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Quickturn and TtME are trademarks of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All
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Contact:
Quickturn, A Cadence Company
Kristin Lietzke, 408/914-6635
kristin@quickturn.com
or
Armstrong Kendall, Inc.
Bill Toelke, 503/672-4692
bill@akipr.com
