Cadence Partners with Leading Test Equipment Vendors to Provide Early System Verification for 2.5/3G and 802.11 Wireless Applications
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 2002--
Palladium Hardware-based Verification Methodology Reduces
Design Time and Silicon Respins
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NYSE:CDN), the world's leading
supplier of electronic design products and services, today announced
that the Cadence(R) Palladium(TM) design verification system now has
custom interfaces to leading wireless test equipment from Anritsu
Corporation, Rohde & Schwarz, and Elektrobit. These companies supply
test equipment used by virtually all wireless integrated circuit (IC)
and systems companies. Interfacing to wireless testers, combined with
Palladium's hardware/software co-verification capability, provides
complete system-level verification for the latest 2.5G and 3G handset
and base station development, and local-area network (LAN) 802.11
wireless applications.
These new interfaces enable designers to verify and stress test
their emulated design with real-world stimulus generated by wireless
testers -- a system-level verification task otherwise performed after
silicon samples have been produced. These powerful environments help
wireless companies bridge the gap between simulation and post-silicon
debug and find and fix more bugs earlier in the design process, while
also concurrently verifying their software drivers and lower-layer
protocol stack at emulation speeds. Overall, these capabilities help
reduce design cycle times and the risk of costly silicon respins.
LG Electronics Inc. (LGE) is using Palladium for complete
system-level verification of its multimillion-gate, 3G WCDMA base
station modem chip. "Using Palladium with various wireless test
equipment and software debuggers allows us to do hardware and software
testing with real-world channel effects, on our six-million-gate,
digital base station chip months before getting silicon samples," said
Dr. Chul-Heum Yon, vice president of UMTS System Research Lab, LGE.
"We were able to connect third-party software debuggers to the
various processors and run software code 10,000 times faster than
simulation. We were also able to save valuable time by quickly finding
and fixing bugs in the Palladium environment because of its fast
compile time -- 12 minutes, from RTL to run-time, on one workstation."
LGE utilizes a Cadence-proprietary hardware-based streamer
solution along with a hardware-based channel simulator from Elektrobit
to add necessary channel effects, such as multi-path fading and power
attenuation. This allows LGE to speed-up and enhance the quality of
the verification.
"By combining the Anritsu MD8480 tester with Palladium and a
channel simulator, it's the first time that all 3G W-CDMA hand-set
digital baseband developers can check various layer 1-3 parametric and
call processing functions while also having the wireless channel
subjected to real-world atmospheric conditions well before silicon is
ready," said Hiromichi Toda, president, Anritsu Corporation. "This
capability accelerates the verification process and enables developers
to speed time-to-market."
As the leading provider of verification solutions to the wireless
industry, Cadence has developed an 802.11 wireless LAN solution based
on a tester from Rohde & Schwarz. This test environment allows users
to verify their wireless LAN chip running in the Palladium system
10,000 times faster than simulation and test protocol compliance.
"Working with leading test equipment companies allows Cadence to
continue to accelerate our customers' design cycle and improve the
quality of their products," said Christopher Tice, Cadence senior vice
president and general manager, Verification Acceleration. "In an
aggressive marketplace like wireless and wireless LAN, where nanometer
technologies are driving capacities of one million to tens of millions
of gates, Palladium becomes a necessary component for high-performance
and early system-level verification."
The core components of the wireless verification environment
consist of Palladium, the Elektrobit PROPSim DBB or C2 channel
simulator, and one of the following testers: the Anritsu MD8480A; the
Rohde & Schwarz WinIQSim/AMIQ; and the Cadence Mobile Station Tester.
Customers may purchase these components from the respective companies.
About LG Electronics
Established in 1958 as Korea's pioneer consumer electronics
company, LG Electronics is a global major player of electronics and
Information & Communications products with over 55,000 employees
working in 72 overseas subsidiaries and marketing units around the
world as well as its business units in Korea. As the fruits of its
concentrated endeavors in the innovation and development of
leading-edge technologies, LG Electronics has achieved a position as a
global leadership in both its core sectors and new digital products
such as Digital TV, Internet appliances and next generation mobile
handsets. LG Electronics is focused on promoting Home Network and
Mobile Network businesses based on cutting-edge multimedia application
technology along with Information and Communication Technology as its
core business areas. LG Electronics' Goal is to enable the intelligent
networking of digital products that will make consumers' lives easier
than ever. Further information is located at www.lge.com.
About Cadence
Cadence is the world's largest supplier of electronic design
technologies and services. Leading computer, networking, wireless, and
consumer electronics companies use the company's solutions to design
electronic systems and semiconductors down to nanometer scale. IEEE,
the world's largest technical professional society, honored Cadence
with its 2002 Corporate Innovation Recognition award. 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 and its products and services
is available at www.cadence.com.
Cadence and the Cadence logo are registered trademarks, and
Palladium is a trademark of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. All other
trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
CONTACT: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Kristin Lietzke, 408/914-6635
kristin@cadence.com
or
Armstrong Kendall, Inc.
Bill Toelke, 503/672-4690
bill@akipr.com
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