EVE Unveils ZeBu-XL, the Electronics Industry's First High-End Prototyping Solution; Boasts Up to 48 Millions ASIC Gates At MHz Speed and Pennies Per Gate
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 22, 2004—
Emulation and Verification Engineering (EVE) today
announced immediate availability of ZeBu-XL, a high-end prototyping
platform for large System-on-Chip (SoC) designs with advanced features
such as automated design mapping and the ability to support
interactive hardware debugging.
Priced at pennies per gate, ZeBu-XL is compatible with previous
generations of EVE's ZeBu-ZV (for "zero bugs") hardware-assisted
verification platform and associated software. It adds a thirty-fold
increase in capacity from one-and-half million application specific
integrated circuit (ASIC) gates for a single ZeBu-ZV board to 48
million for ZeBu-XL and runs at megahertz speeds. Currently, one
project team is using a fully configured version of ZeBu-XL on a
complex processor design.
"ZeBu-XL fills the capacity and performance gap in the
hardware-assisted verification market between roll-your-own prototypes
and expensive hardware emulators," explains Luc Burgun, EVE's
president and chief executive officer (CEO) "We are also making a case
for the lowest global 'cost-per-gate' that is based on system price
and hidden costs due to setup time that engineers use for hardware
debugging and software development. We're able to prove there is a
better way with ZeBu-XL."
ZeBu-XL Features
ZeBu-XL is the first prototyping platform that allows design and
verification teams to implement a fast hardware model for complex SoCs
with more than five millions ASIC gates in a reasonable amount of
time. It does not require an army of experts specialized in
prototyping technologies.
It is a high-speed, high-capacity prototyping platform based on
the latest Xilinx Virtex-II 8000 field programmable gate arrays
(FPGAs). It boasts the industry's largest capacity with up to 64
FPGAs, corresponding to 48 million ASIC gates in a single 19-inch rack
box. It also rates a maximum performance of 30MHz in stand-alone or
in-circuit emulation modes, with a memory capacity of up to 1.5GB.
Integrated with the most popular FPGA and ASIC synthesizers,
ZeBu-XL comes with a complete compilation software suite that includes
automatic gate-level partitioning, automatic clock processing, and a
memory generator. These features permit fast design compilation and
incremental compilation as well. Further, ZeBu-XL implements patented
reconfigurable testbench (RTB) technology that permits to switch
between stimulation modes without recompiling the device under test.
Like ZeBu-ZV, ZeBu-XL offers various stimulation modes including
hardware description language (HDL) co-simulation, C/C++ co-simulation
at cycle or transaction level, pattern mode for regression testing and
stand-alone and in-circuit emulation. All these stimulation modes can
be simultaneously combined together to provide maximum flexibility and
performance.
ZeBu-XL supports hardware/software integration and embedded
software validation. By connecting a software debugger to a CPU or
digital signal processor (DSP) modeled either as a soft core mapped
into the emulator or a logic tile/hard core mounted on a module inside
the system, ZeBu-XL performs at several MHz speed.
Finally, ZeBu-XL features multiple interactive hardware debugging
features, including flexible software logic analysis, continuous
internal state capture, memory and register read and write, and save
and restore. It offers a powerful built-in logic analyzer for fast
hardware logic analysis on all I/O pins and static probes at up to
12MHz, and on-the-fly monitoring via unique dynamic probes at full
speed.
Pricing and Availability
ZeBu-XL is currently shipping at a starting price of $120,000.
For more information, contact Lauro Rizzatti, EVE's CEO of USA and
vice president of marketing. He can be reached at (408) 881-0440 or
via email at lauro@eve-team.com. More details can be found at the EVE
website located at: http://www.eve-team.com.
About Emulation and Verification Engineering
EVE offers innovative intellectual property (IP) and
hardware-assisted verification solutions and verification engineering
services that accelerate the design of complex integrated circuits,
prevalent in the communications, wireless, networking, computer, and
consumer product markets. It has offices in San Jose, Calif.
Telephone: (408) 881-0440. Fax: (408) 904-5800. It also has offices in
Palaiseau, France. Telephone: (33) 1 64532730. Fax: (33) 1 64532740.
Email: info@eve-team.com. Web Site: http://www.eve-team.com.
EVE acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other
organizations for their respective products and services.
Contact:
EVE USA
Lauro Rizzatti, 408-881-0440
CEO
lauro@eve-team.com
or
Public Relations for EVE
Nanette Collins, 617-437-1822
nanette@nvc.com
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