Cadence Introduces Incisive Enterprise, Linking Multiple Specialists and Languages; Top Tier in Segmented Incisive Platform Combines VPA Technology and Methodology with e, SystemC, and SystemVerilog
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Nov. 14, 2005—
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CDNS) today
announced the Incisive Enterprise family of products, featuring
enterprise-level verification process automation (VPA) that supports
e, SystemC and SystemVerilog. The new portfolio -- the top tier in the
segmented Cadence(R) Incisive(R) functional verification platform --
reduces the growing predictability, productivity, and quality risks
associated with complex SoC and systems development.
In addition to the Incisive Enterprise family, which is tailored
for multi-specialist SoC and system-development teams, Cadence offers
the Incisive Design Team family, with verification solutions tailored
for RTL development teams, and the Incisive HDL family, for HDL
creation and simulation.
The Incisive Enterprise family is part of a new set of Cadence
offerings that integrates advanced "VPA-enabled" technologies and
methodologies from the Verisity acquisition with system modeling, HDL
and assertion languages, high-performance formal and dynamic engines,
verification IP, and analysis tailored for each specialist. Incisive
Enterprise targets the exponentially increasing complexity of the
verification process associated with the integration of multiple
specialists spanning block, chip and system-level verification of SoCs
and hardware-software systems.
"Cadence's Incisive Enterprise addresses the entire verification
process from initial plan to verification closure," said Oliver Bell,
director of system-on-chip verification at Micronas. "Our design and
verification specialists require full solutions that support an
optimal mix of languages such as e, SystemC, and SystemVerilog with a
path towards system-level emulation."
The Incisive Enterprise family provides new tools, technology and
methodology to automate the verification process and includes:
-- Incisive Specman Simulator, a new product that includes a
high-performance, direct kernel integration of the Incisive
Simulator with block to system-level testbench automation from
Specman Elite
-- Mixed SystemC and e transaction-based verification solution
linking systems and verification specialists
-- Enterprise Manager, enhanced for enterprise use with
integration to all Incisive engines, languages, and coverage
tools
-- Incisive Palladium(R) hardware-assisted verification for
specialists doing high-speed acceleration, HW/SW
co-verification, system-level and post-silicon verification
-- Incisive Enterprise plan-to-closure productized methodology,
combining widely adopted and mature reuse with proven
transaction-level modeling and system-level verification
methodologies
-- Encapsulation of Incisive Design Team family of products and
methodologies, including formal analysis and SystemVerilog
support
"As design and verification methodologies have become more
complicated with the advent of SoCs and nanometer geometries, the
leading-edge electronics companies have been forced to create teams of
specialists. Each specialist requires a best-in-class solution tied
together into an overall plan-to-closure methodology," said Moshe
Gavrielov, executive vice president and general manager of the Cadence
Verification Division. "Our customers require a process that is highly
automated and managed with metrics for maximum visibility,
predictability, resource utilization, productivity, and system-level
quality."
About Cadence
Cadence enables global electronic-design innovation and plays an
essential role in the creation of today's integrated circuits and
electronics. Customers use Cadence software and hardware,
methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced
semiconductors, printed-circuit boards and systems used in consumer
electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer
systems. Cadence reported 2004 revenues of approximately $1.2 billion,
and has approximately 5,000 employees. The company is headquartered in
San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers, and research
facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry.
More information about the company, its products, and services is
available at www.cadence.com.
Cadence, the Cadence logo, Incisive, Palladium, Specman Elite, and
Xtreme are registered trademarks of Cadence Design Systems in the
United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Ric Chope, 408-428-5619
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