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DAFCA Announces Availability of ClearBlue(TM) Debug Infrastructure IP and Software Product Family; Recently Patented Technology Enables Accelerated Post-Silicon SoC Debug, Diagnosis and Validation
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—July 3, 2006—
DAFCA, Inc., the leading vendor of on-chip
reconfigurable debug infrastructure, announces the production release
of ClearBlue(TM) version 2006.1. The ClearBlue product suite contains
software modules and silicon debug infrastructure intellectual
property (IP) that has been specifically developed to address the
post-silicon validation challenges of nano-era semiconductor product
design. System-on-Chip (SoC) design teams can incorporate ClearBlue's
patented, reconfigurable fabric during RTL development, enabling
powerful at-speed observation, diagnosis, and debug that accelerates
validation and system-level bring-up with early silicon engineering
samples.
Driven by the overwhelming challenges of delivering working
silicon in a timely fashion for 90nm and smaller process nodes,
leading-edge design teams have recognized the significant benefits of
utilizing on-chip debug as a key component of their product success
strategy. The production release of ClearBlue marks the culmination of
the collaborative development partnerships that DAFCA has established
with a select group of top-tier integrated device manufacturers,
fabless semiconductor vendors and university partners, and now allows
the broader design community access to the breakthrough technology
pioneered by DAFCA.
Pre-silicon, the ClearBlue Instrumentation Studio software
delivers a user-directed environment for insertion of the
reconfigurable debug instruments (ReDI(TM)) into the SoC RTL.
Post-silicon, the ClearBlue Debugger offers a wide spectrum of
configurable, at-speed analysis capabilities, including signal trace,
on-chip logic analyzers, event- and assertion-based debug, and
performance monitoring, that all feed directly into standard graphical
debug software formats, including FSDB and VCD. ClearBlue supports the
standard IEEE JTAG port for communication and control of the ReDI
enabled SoC designs.
AVAILABILITY
ClearBlue 2006.1 is available today for use with Verilog and VHDL
designs, running on Linux workstations. ClearBlue is tightly
integrated with existing RTL-based design flows and interoperates with
the tool suites of the major EDA vendors. Pricing information for the
ClearBlue software modules and ReDI instrumentation library access can
be obtained by contacting DAFCA. DAFCA also provides fee-based
technical services covering instrumentation plan development,
insertion and verification support, and development of custom
instrumentation.
DAFCA AT DAC 2006
DAFCA will be participating at the upcoming Design Automation
Conference, July 24-28, at the Moscone Convention Center in San
Francisco, exhibiting at booth #4155. Dr. Miron Abramovici, DAFCA
Chief Technical Officer and founder, will be participating at two
technical sessions:
-- Tuesday, July 25, 10:30am: In the Special Technical Session
entitled, Why Doesn't My System Work?, will present a paper
entitled, "A Reconfigurable Design-for-Debug Infrastructure
for SoCs."
-- Friday, July 28, 9am: A full-day tutorial session, "From Basic
to Advanced Techniques for Silicon Debug and Diagnosis", in
conjunction with personnel from ARM and Intel.
ABOUT DAFCA
DAFCA, Inc. is a design automation software company that shortens
post-silicon SoC validation and in-system bring-up. The DAFCA
ClearBlue software suite and instrumentation library allows design
teams to incorporate our patented reconfigurable debug infrastructure
into their designs to observe, discover and diagnose functional errors
at-speed, leading to dramatically lower development costs and
accelerated time to volume silicon. Learn more about the company at
www.dafca.com.
Contact:
DAFCA, Inc.
Richard Curtin, 508-663-3311
Email Contact
or
Skye Marketing Communications
Leslie Cumming, 415-285-2352
Email Contact
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