SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 6, 2006—
EVE today announced that its hardware-assisted
verification platform has been integrated with the Siloti(TM)
SilVE(TM) Visibility Enhancement product introduced separately today
by Novas Software, Inc. This integration builds upon earlier
interoperability efforts between the two companies that links EVE's
ZeBu (for Zero Bugs) with the Novas Verdi(TM) Automated Debug System.
"Tightly linking ZeBu to Novas Siloti has given P.A. Semi debug
visibility into the logic signals inside our PWRficient processor
design on the emulation platform," says Tse-Yu Yeh, director of
architecture and verification, P.A. Semi. "This combination improved
our debugging productivity significantly over partial scan,
accelerating our debugging for large programs with millions of
instructions from days to just hours."
Interoperability between ZeBu and SilVE streamlines design
comprehension through greater visibility of internal signal activity
and allows faster verification and debug of complex integrated circuit
(IC) and system-on-chip (SoC) designs. The result is a high-visibility
verification flow that allows systems engineers and hardware designers
to quickly track and correct causes of errant behavior before a design
is fabricated.
"The Siloti product family delivers breakthrough visibility
enhancement technologies, and we applaud Novas for their innovations
in the critical area of late stage verification," notes Lauro
Rizzatti, vice president of worldwide marketing and general manager of
EVE-USA. "We're confident that enabling ZeBu interoperability with
Siloti will result in an even more efficient, improved verification
environment for our mutual customers."
The combination of EVE's ZeBu and Novas' Siloti products enables
engineers to achieve full visibility into the functional operation of
complex designs for debug of problems found through emulation. The
gate-level netlist is fed into the SilVE environment and analyzed to
determine the essential signals needed for the entire design or
specific logic area of interest. ZeBu then sets probes on the targeted
registers and writes out or "dumps" the data for these essential
register signals. This chip-level data is processed within the SilVE
environment to calculate the missing values on demand, providing ZeBu
users with full visibility into design operation and automated debug
capabilities at the register transfer level (RTL) with Novas' Verdi
debug system.
"We're pleased to be working with EVE to support hardware-assisted
verification methodologies that address the requirements of even the
most aggressive chip design teams," adds Scott Sandler, Novas'
president and chief executive officer. "Siloti and Verdi dramatically
accelerate an engineer's ability to comprehend complex design
behaviors. When used together with ZeBu, customers tell us they are
able to dramatically improve design visibility and realize significant
savings in verification cycles."
For more information, contact Lauro Rizzatti. 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 EVE
EVE offers the fastest verification and most cycles per dollar by
combining the best aspects of traditional emulation and rapid
prototyping systems into a single, unified environment for ASIC and
SoC debugging, and embedded software validation. Its headquarters in
the United States is San Jose, Calif. Telephone: (408) 881-0440. Fax:
(408) 904-5800. Its corporate headquarters is located in Palaiseau,
France. Telephone: (33) 1 64.53.27.30. Fax: (33) 1 64.53.27.40. Email:
info@eve-team.com. Website: http://www.eve-team.com.
Siloti, SilVE and Verdi are trademarks of Novas Software, Inc. EVE
acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other
organizations for their respective products and services.
Contact:
EVE
Lauro Rizzatti, 408-881-0440
General Manager of EVE USA
Email Contact
or
Public Relations for EVE
Nanette Collins, 617-437-1822
Email Contact
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