Hello Michael As you requested, following is your SoC Design and Co-Verification News Update featuring Platform Express™ for platform-based design, Seamless® and Seamless FPGA for hardware/software co-verification. IN THIS ISSUE: Multimedia Demo: Seamless FPGA Technical Publications Partner Highlight: Freescale Live Events Web Seminars Multimedia Demo Mentor Graphics Seamless FPGA delivers co-verification for Xilinx FPGAs with PowerPC processors, combining comprehensive hardware and software debug and analysis within an optimal iteration cycle. During this demonstration, we'll show the following: Simplification of the embedded processor verification flow Importation of designs from Xilinx Processor Studio to Seamless FPGA Verification: accelerating the simulation process Performance profiling and analysis Watch this multimedia demo today.   Technical Publications Migrating Software to Hardware on FPGAs Seamless FPGA Speeds Verification for Xilinx Virtex-4 and Virtex-II Pro FPGAs Measuring and Tuning Real-Time Performance of Embedded Systems Check out the entire archive of technical papers available.   Partner Highlight: Freescale Freescale's PowerQUICC integrated communications processors continue to evolve through software internetworking leadership with extensive multi-protocol support. In June 2004, Freescale unveiled the MPC854x family with advanced features that specifically address the enterprise networking, telecom transmission and switching, 3G wireless infrastructure, storage and high-end imaging markets. Freescale provides unprecedented levels of hardware and software debugging support and an extensive suite of development tools, including co-simulation environments from Mentor Graphics on the latest PowerQUICC devices. Find out more.   Live Events »  Tradeshows     DVCon 2005 February 14-16, 2005 San Jose, CA ModelSim and O-In: The Power of Integrated Verification Mentor Graphics is the industry's functional verification leader, providing best-in-class technologies and methodologies based on industry standards. Visit us at booth #204 for a demo of the newest features from ModelSim and 0-In.     TI Developer Conference February 15-17, 2005 Houston, TX Stop at booth #111 to see a demo.     Embedded Systems Conference March 6-10, 2005 San Francisco, CA Stop at Booth #1614 to see a demo.     DATE (Design, Automation and Test in Europe) March 7-11, 2005 Munich, Germany     EDA Tech Forum March 16, 2005 Long Beach, CA Learn about the latest technology trends and challenges facing the EDA community. Find out more and register today!     User2User 2005 Registration Now Open! April 27-29, 2005 Santa Clara, CA Attend User2User 2005, Mentor Graphics International User Group Conference. Save with the Early Bird price of $500 until March 16th! Special highlights at this year's conference: Over 170 technical presentations Pre-conference workshops Burt Rutan, aviation pioneer and designer of SpaceshipOne, the world's first private manned spacecraft and winner of the $10 million Ansari X Prize Special presentation by the MythBusters of Discovery Channel Visit us for more information and registration. »  Seminars     SystemVerilog for Verification February 22 - March 2 Germany, Israel, Italy, Sweden, and United Kingdom     Assertion-Based Verification March 14 - April 13 Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Sweden, and United Kingdom Archived Web Seminars Full System Verification and Analysis for StarCore SC1000 Family of Processors Verification of Your Embedded FPGA Design View entire online seminar archive     Feedback We would appreciate any feedback you have regarding this newsletter's content.   Return to Top   Best Regards, Mentor Graphics Corporation SoC Design and Verification Division http://www.mentor.com/products/fv/hwsw_coverification/index.cfm If you do not wish to receive future SoC Design and Co-Verification News updates, update your subscription or reply to this email message with "Optout dolinsky@gsu.by" in the subject. Mentor Graphics 8005 SW Boeckman Road Wilsonville, OR, 97070, USA 800-547-3000 or 503-685-8000 Copyright© 2002 Mentor Graphics Corporation. Mentor Graphics, Seamless, ModelSim and XRAY are registered trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. C-Bridge and Platform Express are trademarks of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are trademarks of their respective owners.