Adelante Technologies Licenses Mentor Graphics Embedded Technology to Offer Unique Multi-Core Software Solution
Mentor's XRAY Debugger Automatically Adapts to Any Adelante Saturn DSP Core Configuration
NEW ORLEANS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 2002--
Adelante Technologies, a leading developer of open, system-on-chip
(SoC) digital signal processing solutions for the wireless, consumer
infotainment and networking markets, announced today that it will
offer a proprietary XRAY® Debugger suite from Mentor Graphics® for
debugging multi-core Systems-on-Chips (SoCs) that include Adelante's
high performance DSP cores, application-specific co-processors and
third-party RISC processors. As a member of Mentor Graphics' ETAP
Program, Adelante will enable its customers and partners to leverage
Adelante's high performance DSP cores and co-processors with Mentor's
embedded technology platform.
As part of its Atmosphere Integrated Development Environment
(IDE), Adelante will license Mentor Graphics' XRAY Debugger technology
to provide a best-in-class debug solution to customers developing
complex multi-core SoC embedded solutions. The integration of XRAY
into the Atmosphere IDE will provide engineers with both homogeneous
and heterogeneous multi-core debugging capability and provide a common
user interface for all Adelante DSP cores and application specific
co-processors. This powerful solution will support all facets of the
embedded software development lifecycle including instruction set
simulation, co-verification and real target debug.
Highly optimized, fixed-point DSP designs frequently use multiple,
non-standard word-widths (13-bits, 27-bits, etc.) to achieve
floating-point performance in a small amount of silicon. While many
debuggers limit the word-width to 16- or 32-bits, XRAY is designed
specifically to handle any word-width and any combination of
word-widths. Another key advantage for customers is XRAY's ability to
enable embedded system developers to quickly build applications
optimized around any Adelante DSP core for their SoC designs. Each
design is automatically adapted to each unique Adelante core with
XRAY's configurable interface from code development to debug. The
extended support in XRAY for the DSP-C programming language is
extremely important when designing and debugging highly optimized
C-based solutions.
"This collaboration between Adelante and Mentor Graphics is key
for developers in the high-volume consumer electronics industry --
particularly in the areas of infotainment and multimedia as well as
next generation wireless devices. It enables systems designers to
optimize their system level trade-offs and dramatically improve
accuracy and time to market," said Karsten Popp, Adelante's CEO.
"Multi-core debugging can be a major bottleneck in complex systems
designs. Adelante's and Mentor's XRAY Debugger solution dramatically
speeds-up the integration of Adelante's DSP solutions into customer
solutions."
"This solution strongly reinforces Mentor's commitment to provide
embedded software technology to a leader in the field of open embedded
DSPs -- and to make it readily available and integrated into
companies' architectures and environments," said Robert Day, director
of marketing at Mentor's Embedded Software Division. "The XRAY
Debugger is closely integrated with Adelante's DSP architecture, and
completes the total solution for Adelante's customers."
Adelante and Mentor Graphics have also formed a partnership that
enables Mentor Graphics to broaden the scope of its Platform
Express(TM) SoC design kit to include SoC embedded digital signal
processing (DSP). Platform Express offers an open development platform
that enables multi-core SoC design and verification of hardware and
software. This represents a major step forward in increasing the speed
of development for SoC-based designs. 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.
About Adelante Technologies
Adelante Technologies is a leading developer of open, system-on
chip (SoC) digital signal processing (DSP) solutions for the wireless,
consumer infotainment and networking markets. Providing customers with
the ultra-low power, low-cost and high-performance required in
feature-rich devices of the multimedia age, Adelante solutions are
based on a family of licensable, open DSP cores, sub-systems,
application specific coprocessors, software development and tools. To
date, more than 100 million products using Adelante technology have
been shipped.
Adelante was founded in June 2001 from the merger of the DSP
division of Philips Semiconductors and Frontier Design. In 2002
Adelante was listed in TIME Magazine's list of "Europe's 50 Hottest
Tech Firms."
For more information please see Adelante's web site at:
www.adelantetech.com.
Adelante, Galaxic, Saturn DSP Core, Atmosphere are trademarks of
Adelante Technologies. Mentor Graphics, and XRAY are registered
trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. Platform express is a
trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product
names are the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective
owners.
Contact:
Adelante Technologies
Jean-Pierre Le Calvez, +33 1 69 18 76 49
Jean-pierre.le.calvez@adelantetech.com
or
The William Baldwin Group
Nancy B. Green, 650/856-6192
nancy@william-baldwin.com
