Toshiba Achieves Significant Success in Adoption of Verilog-AMS Language Design with the Mentor Graphics Mixed-Signal Simulator, ADVance MS
WILSONVILLE, Ore.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Nov. 17, 2004—
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq:MENT) today
announced that Toshiba Corporation has achieved significant success in
the adoption of analog/mixed-signal HDL language, Verilog-AMS, for the
design and verification of complex analog and mixed-signal LSI (large
scale integration) designs. The Verilog-AMS support in Mentor
Graphics(R) mixed-signal simulator tool, ADVance MS(TM), allows the
functionalities of LSIs to be validated earlier and more efficiently
through the design cycles. Toshiba intends to continue deploying the
ADVance MS tool in other projects to reduce the turn around time of
their LSI designs.
"System verification for analog/mixed-signal LSI is becoming more
challenging than ever due to the increasing circuit complexity," said
Mr. Takao Ito, senior manager of analog design CAD department, System
LSI second business unit, Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor Company.
"Through high quality behavioral modeling in Verilog-AMS and good
collaboration with Mentor, we were able to accomplish great results in
the top-down design and bottom-up verification methodology with the
ADVance MS tool. It is important to expand this methodology to other
application areas to continue offering high quality
analog/mixed-signal LSI to meet our customer's requirements."
"Efficient analog/mixed-signal verification is important in the
design of reliable products. It becomes even more critical when
high-quality complex analog/mixed-signal SoC is demanded under short
time-to-market pressure," said Mr. Takeshi Yamamoto, manager of System
LSI first unit, Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor Company. "The
analog/mixed-signal language-based design approach, with the ADVance
MS tool and Mentor's CommLib behavioral model library, enabled
efficient analysis of large circuits, while traditional analog or
mixed-signal simulator did not go well. In addition, the availability
of fast-Spice simulation technology, the Mach TA(TM) tool, under the
ADVance MS tool allows sophisticated analysis to be completed
overnight."
The Mentor Graphics ADVance MS (ADMS) tool is a single-kernel,
language-neutral functional verification environment for digital,
analog, mixed-signal and RF circuits. This platform is built upon four
high-performance, customer-proven simulation technologies: the
Eldo(TM) tool for analog, ModelSim(R) for digital, Mach for
transistor-level, and the Eldo RF for radio frequency simulations. The
ADMS supports most of the design languages, including VHDL, VHDL-AMS,
Verilog, Verilog-AMS, SystemC, SystemVerilog, Spice, and C, for the
design and verification of mixed-signal system, and SoC. ADMS has
gained wide acceptance since its introduction five years ago. It is
currently used in hundreds of customer sites.
"With Toshiba's superior circuit design expertise and Mentor's
cutting-edge AMS modeling and simulation technologies, we have
implemented a highly advanced, yet realistic, methodology based on
top-down design and bottom-up verification," said Jue-Hsien Chern,
vice president and general manager, Deep Submicron Division, Mentor
Graphics. "We believe that our collaboration with Toshiba will
continue to benefit both companies."
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