Tensilica and EVE Speed SoC Development Times; Agreement Speeds Development of Complex SoCs With Multiple Xtensa Processors
SANTA CLARA & SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 10, 2005—
Tensilica, (R) Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), the only
company to automate the design of optimized application-specific
configurable processors for system-on-chip (SoC) design, and Emulation
and Verification Engineering (EVE) (San Jose, Calif.), an innovator in
advanced verification technologies, today announced an agreement that
speeds the design of complex SoCs with multiple Xtensa processors.
This agreement will allow Tensilica's customers to download
pre-verified register transfer level (RTL) code produced by
Tensilica's Xtensa(R) Processor Generator into EVE's hardware
prototyping platform for integrated whole-chip design verification.
Tensilica's Xtensa Xplorer development environment will be linked to
EVE's ZeBu hardware-based verification product to provide
hardware/software co-verification and improve overall SoC simulation
and debugging. The combination of EVE's automatic compiler technology
for mapping SoCs to field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and
Tensilica's Processor Generator ensures that customers will quickly be
up and running with a best in class, unified hardware system debug and
software validation environment.
Says Alain Raynaud, EVE's technology center director: "The
challenge of verifying huge SoC designs with multiple processors is
ideally suited to our ZeBu prototyping platform. With this
methodology, we significantly accelerated the development of the
whole-chip hardware prototype, so engineers can spend their time
designing the application and running it on the prototype at MHz
speed. It significantly reduces the need for block-level hardware
verification and eliminates the pain traditionally associated with
hardware emulation."
"This is an important step in SoC design," affirms Larry Przywara,
director of strategic alliances for Tensilica. "While our processors
are guaranteed correct by construction, they must be integrated into a
highly complex SoC. By providing our users with easy access to EVE's
ZeBu prototyping platform, they should be able to quickly verify their
entire SoC designs."
About Emulation and Verification Engineering
EVE pioneers a new approach to hardware-assisted verification that
combines the best aspects of traditional emulation and rapid
prototyping systems into a single, unified environment for both
ASIC/SoC debugging and embedded software validation. 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.
About Tensilica
Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address the growing need for
optimized, application-specific microprocessor solutions in
high-volume embedded applications. With a configurable and extensible
microprocessor core called Xtensa, Tensilica is the only company that
has automated and patented the time-consuming process of generating a
customized microprocessor core along with a complete software
development tool environment, producing new configurations in a matter
of hours. For more information, visit www.tensilica.com.
Editors' Notes:
-- Tensilica and Xtensa are registered trademarks belonging to
Tensilica Inc.
-- Tensilica's announced licensees include Agilent, ALPS, AMCC
(JNI Corporation), Astute Networks, Avision, Bay Microsystems,
Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Broadcom, Cisco Systems,
Conexant Systems, Cypress, Crimson Microsystems, ETRI,
FUJIFILM Microdevices, Fujitsu Ltd., Hudson Soft, Hughes
Network Systems, Ikanos Communications, LG Electronics,
Marvell, MediaWorks, NEC Laboratories America, NEC
Corporation, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), NVIDIA,
Olympus Optical Co. Ltd., S2io, Solid State Systems, Sony,
STMicroelectronics, Stretch Inc.,TranSwitch Corporation, and
Victor Company of Japan (JVC).
-- EVE acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other
organizations for their respective products and services.
Contact:
EVE USA
Lauro Rizzatti, 408-881-0440
General Manager
lauro@eve-team.com
or
Public Relations for EVE
Nanette Collins, 617-437-1822
nanette@nvc.com
or
Corp. Comm for Tensilica
Paula Jones, 408-327-7343
paula@tensilica.com
or
Public Relations for Tensilica
Erica Powelson, 831-424-1811
erika@taniscomm.com
