Atrenta and Aptix Partner to Deliver Predictive Analysis for Pre-Silicon Prototyping Platform; Streamlines SoC Integration and Verification
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Oct. 20, 2003—
Atrenta(R) Inc., the Predictive Analysis Company(TM),
and Aptix, a leading supplier of pre-silicon prototyping (PSP) tools
and platforms for embedded system-on-chip (SoC) design, have partnered
to develop a set of RTL coding rules for pre-silicon prototyping that
ensure efficient mapping to Aptix's multi-FPGA prototyping platform.
The rule-set is made available as the Aptix Policy for Atrenta's
SpyGlass(R) Predictive Analyzer.
Targeted for both design and verification engineers, the Aptix
Policy for SpyGlass helps both groups follow best practices and ensure
code compliance with design-for-prototyping principles. For designers
it provides a comprehensive set of rules around which to efficiently
code their RTL for FPGAs. For verification engineers it ensures that
they are receiving clean RTL while providing in-depth design
information. More of the verification engineer's time can be spent
discovering real design bugs as opposed to FPGA incompatibilities. The
end result is a streamlined RTL-to-PSP flow, a more efficiently
verified and validated SoC, and quicker time to market.
Atrenta worked directly with Aptix to define and test the most
critical guidelines relating to the RTL-to-Prototype flow. Using the
fast-synthesis and logic evaluation technologies of the SpyGlass
platform, the Aptix Policy performs in-depth structural analysis on
Verilog and VHDL RTL to flag violations. After running a design
through Spyglass, users can use Aptix's Logic Mapping software, Design
Pilot(TM) to map their designs to Aptix's Reconfigurable PSP, System
Explorer(TM), or to any standard PCB platform. Atrenta's first release
of the Aptix predictive analysis solution is comprised of a set of
rules that relate to FPGA synthesis compliance, successful Prototype
versus Simulation comparison, and pertinent design information for
verification engineers.
Charlie Miller, Aptix Sr. Vice President of Marketing & Business
Development, said, "Aptix has more experience in pre-silicon
prototyping than any other company. Part of our expertise is knowing
the best way to design for prototyping. This new Aptix Policy for
Atrenta's SpyGlass Predictive Analyzer captures that knowledge for use
by our mutual customers."
"At Atrenta we are committed to solving our customers design
productivity challenges," stated Ghulam Nurie, Atrenta's Sr. Vice
President of Marketing & Business Development. "It is our strategy to
address our customer's critical design issues as well as optimize
their tool flow. By partnering with Aptix, we bring a set of new
capabilities to help our mutual customers write pre-silicon prototype
ready RTL from the start. This removes late stage RTL changes and
enables a smooth transition from simulation to pre-silicon
prototyping."
Availability
This Aptix policy is available now for use in SpyGlass 3.3 or
later. It is sold and supported by Atrenta and its distributors. It
runs on Sun/Solaris 2.5 - 2.8, HP-UX 10.2 and RedHat Linux 7.
About Aptix
Aptix Corporation is a leading provider of high-performance
pre-silicon prototype (PSP) solutions to System-on-Chip (SoC)
developers, enabling them to accelerate their time-to-market, reduce
costs and improve their product performance. Aptix's reconfigurable
and portable PSPs enable hardware developers to integrate custom logic
and to verify and debug complex SoC designs in a real-world
environment and software developers to accelerate the firmware and
application software development timeline. In addition, these flexible
prototypes can be deployed for field-testing and to multiple customers
for evaluation, providing a development head start. Visit Aptix on the
web at http://www.aptix.com. Aptix is headquartered at 1338 Ridder
Park Drive, San Jose, CA 95131.
About SpyGlass
SpyGlass(R) uses a unique predictive analysis technique to perform
detailed structural analysis on Verilog and VHDL RTL in order to
detect complex design problems early in the design cycle, resulting in
reduced development costs, lower risk and early time to market.
SpyGlass' fast-synthesis engine creates a structural representation of
the design allowing the most comprehensive and accurate analysis of
RTL to identify problems not normally visible in the RTL. Problems
detected include clock domain crossings, synchronization, timing
issues, testability problems, SoC integration requirements,
RTL-handoff, design reuse, clock/reset requirements, and coding
styles.
About Atrenta
Atrenta delivers predictive analysis solutions to the world's
leading electronics companies, including eight of the top ten
semiconductor companies. Its pioneering and award-winning SpyGlass
Predictive Analysis tools accelerate the design of SoCs, ASICs, and
FPGAs by detecting complex chip design problems that are not easily
identified with conventional verification methods. During the past
year, SpyGlass has been recognized with several distinguishing awards,
including EDN magazine's Top 100 products for 2002 and "LSI Design of
the Year 2002" award by Japan's Semiconductor Industry News. Atrenta
was also chosen by Venture Reporter as one of the top 100
venture-backed companies for 2002 and recently named by AlwaysOn, as
one of the Top 100 private companies.
Atrenta, with headquarters in San Jose, Calif., employs over one
hundred people worldwide. It has European offices in England and
France, a research and development center in India, and sales and
support distributors in Central Europe, India, Israel, Japan, Korea,
Singapore, Taiwan, and United Kingdom. For further information, visit
the Atrenta website at www.atrenta.com, email moreinfo@atrenta.com, or
call 408-453-3333. To view online demos, visit
http://www.atrenta.com/demo.
Atrenta and SpyGlass are registered trademarks of Atrenta Inc.
Aptix and System Explorer are registered trademarks of Aptix
Corporation. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Contact:
Atrenta Inc.
Mona Singh, 408-467-4248
mona@atrenta.com
or
Newiic
Paula Jones, 650-967-3711
paula@newiic.com
or
Aptix Corporation
Ehab Mohsen, 408-541-4732
ehabm@aptix.com
or
ValleyPR for Aptix
Georgia Marzalek, 650-345-7477
Georgia@ValleyPR.com
