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ZAiQ Technologies and S2C Inc. Collaborate on a Transaction-Based SoC Design and Validation System
IP Porter(TM) adds transaction support for IP and chip-level
validation
WOBURN, Mass. & SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 30, 2005—
ZAiQ Technologies, Inc., provider of Electronic System Level (ESL)
design and verification solutions, and S2C Inc., the leading supplier
of Universal SoC Design Platforms, today announced that they will
combine ZAiQ's SYSTEMware(TM) verification software and IP and S2C's
IP Porter(TM) platforms to provide a transaction-based SoC design and
validation system. ZAiQ and S2C have entered into an original
equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement that allows customers to order
the integrated system directly from S2C and to use off-the-shelf,
standard transactors from ZAiQ's library of SYSTEMware Verification
Components (SVCs). S2C will offer the new system in Asia, North
America and Europe.
Key features of this next generation SoC design and validation
system include:
-- Hardware co-modeling with system level software
-- System architecture and performance validation
-- Rapid and secure IP evaluation and integration
-- Verilog, VHDL and SystemC language support
-- Accellera SCE-MI 1.0 support
-- Transaction-level modeling
"With the ever-increasing complexity and time-to-market demands of
today's SoC designs, an intuitive and efficient design and validation
environment offers a significant benefit in streamlining the design
cycle process," said Tom Huang, president and CEO of S2C. "S2C's
collaboration with Zaiq Technologies provides customers a single,
unified environment to help ensure design consistency throughout the
whole design process, from system level to IP level and software
integration, eliminating the need to switch environments. Using S2C's
TAI IP(TM) technology, IP providers can securely deliver their silicon
IP and SoC integrators can rapidly evaluate and integrate this IP into
a transaction-based environment. As a result, designers are able to
ensure design integrity and accelerate time-to-completion of the
design cycle's critical validation stage.
"We are pleased to be working with the team from S2C. They have
developed a very unique product for IP and SoC validation," said Rich
McAndrew, executive vice president and general manager of ZAiQ's
SYSTEMware Products Group. "Using ZAiQ's SCI-ME support, SystemC
knowledge and off-the-shelf verification IP, we believe we can deliver
a roadmap of solutions for modeling, verification and traffic
generation in SystemC. S2C's experience and deep understanding of the
Asian market will enable Zaiq to deploy these capabilities to a
rapidly growing region for design and verification tools and
services."
About the IP Porter(TM) Universal SoC Design Platform
IP Porter(TM) is the industry's first tool to focus on solving
both SoC design and secure IP evaluation issues. It provides a fast
and easy way to evaluate IP and integrate SoC without extensive
knowledge of ASIC design. IP Porter(TM) has a unified environment that
enables software development, system testing and system debugging
through an embedded transaction interface. IP Porter(TM) is a high
throughput and low-cost system that facilitates the needs of hardware
design and software integration prior to tape-out.
About SYSTEMware verification products
SYSTEMware provides designers with a pre-configured, rapidly
usable transaction-based system level verification environment for
complex designs, along with an extensive library of verification
intellectual property (IP) to comprehensively and efficiently test
those designs. It offers a transaction-based verification environment
running on the CHIPit system utilizing the Accellera standard -
Standard Co-Emulation Modeling Interface (SCE-MI). ZAiQ's verification
IP, called SYSTEMware Verification Components (SVCs), supports the
SCE-MI standard down to the synthesizable Bus Functional Model (BFM)
level. SVCs are available for standard interfaces and protocols such
as AMBA, USB and Ethernet.
About S2C Inc.
S2C is the developer and provider of the world's first Universal
SoC Design Platform - utilizing an FPGA-based IP format that
accelerates and streamlines the system-on-chip (SoC) design flow to
perform architecture design, secure IP evaluation, plug-and-play IP
integration, system validation, and pre-silicon prototyping. S2C's
advanced capabilities are driven by proprietary TAI IP(TM) technology,
which renders encrypted FPGA-based IP models Testable, Analyzable, and
Integratable, and therefore treatable as library components in
electronic system level (ESL) environments. Combined with S2C's
professional services in building SoC prototypes and validation
environments, customers can attain a more seamless design flow process
- reducing product time-to-market by three to nine months. Founded by
a group of industry professionals with extensive emulation and
prototyping experience, S2C is headquartered in San Jose, California
and has a regional office and engineering design center in Shanghai,
China. For more information, visit http://www.s2cinc.com.
About ZAiQ Technologies, Inc
Headquartered in Woburn, Mass., ZAiQ Technologies, Inc. is a
leading provider of verification solutions for companies that develop
complex telecommunications, networking and computer products. Its
innovative domain-specific design methodologies enable the creation
and integration of reusable IP. As a result, customers are able to
achieve breakthroughs in the time-to-market while substantially
reducing the development costs of complex systems. Information about
ZAiQ and its products and services are available by phone at (781)
932-2442, by e-mail at info@zaiqtech.com or on the Internet at
http://www.zaiqtech.com.
Contact:
ZAiQ
Jim Pena
781-721-8260
pena@zaiqtech.com
or
S2C
Toshio Nakama
408-213-8818
toshio@s2cinc.com
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