Seamless Hello Michael As you requested, following is your System-Level Verification News Update featuring SeamlessR Co-Verification and Platform ExpressTM, platform-based design. _____ IN THIS APRIL ISSUE: Product Update - Seamless Version 5 Partner Update - ARM Technical Events HW/SW Co-Verification Technical Workshops Press Coverage _____ Product Update - Seamless Version 5 ÿ Seamless Version 5 shipped on March 31st. This major new release includes some exciting functionality, most notably the Performance Analysis features which extend Seamless beyond system verification into system optimization. You can now profile code and chart memory activity, bus bandwidth utilization, and bus arbitration delay. Performance analysis helps you quickly identify throughput bottlenecks and gives direct feedback on your efforts to tune system performance. Version 5 is built upon the new single-process kernel which eliminates inter-process communications between the ISS and hardware. This delivers better performance when used with fast hardware evaluators such as "C" hardware descriptions and hardware emulators. The Version 5 enhancements are covered under your software maintenance agreement, so there is no additional charge to current users on maintenance. ÿ Seamless Version 5 presentation: PDF http://www.mentor.com/seamless/5/seamless5.0.pdf ÿ Customers, visit the Release Center at: http://www.mentor.com/codesign/main-f/centers/rctr.html Partner Update - ARM ÿ The combination of ARM IP and Mentor Graphics tools has helped SoC designers around the globe produce custom ARM-core based solutions. ARM and Mentor work closely to ensure continuous development of tool support for the entire ARM core roadmap, including the latest ARM11 core family, that provides a full range of proven products to address silicon process design constraints. For more information: http://www.arm.com Technical Events ÿ >ÿÿ Effective Verification of PQIII based Applications: How to Leverage Co-Verification Mentor Graphics and Motorola Webinar May 21, 2003 Live webcast: 11am (PST) Details and registration: http://www.mentor.com/seamless/seminars/PowerQUICCIII/ ÿ >ÿÿ Functional Verification Seminar Series Mentor Graphics presents the 'Total Verification' seminar series. Give us a day and we will show you how Mentor Graphics provides solutions for each stage of the verification process: block, sub-system, system, and full chip verification. Upcoming Seminars: Irvine, CA - April 18 Austin, TX - April 29 Dallas, TX - April 30 Phoenix, AZ - May 1 Raleigh, NC - May 7 Boston, MA - May 8 Ottawa, Canada - May 9 ÿÿ Madrid, Spain - May 12 Portland, OR - May 12 Toulouse, France - May 13 Minneapolis, MN - May 14 Vienna, Austria - May 14 Paris, France - May 15 Tel Aviv, Israel - May 22 For More Information and Registration: http://www.mentor.com/soc/events/seminars/fv/ ÿ >ÿÿ Mentor Graphics and Tensilica Lunch and Learn Seminar SoC Revolution: configurable processors - the new nand gate May 14, 2003 San Jose, CA Register at: http://www.mentor.com/seamless/seminars/landl/ ÿ >ÿÿ Embedded Systems Conference -San Francisco April 22- 25, 2003 Moscone Center For more information and registration: http://www.mentor.com/events/esc_sf/ ÿ >ÿÿ Programmable World 2003 May 6th North America May 15th Europe Join us for the year's biggest technical forum for designers! Once again, XilinxR, Mentor Graphics and other industry leaders are teaming up to bring you Programmable World 2003. This unique forum will feature solutions-oriented technical presentations, real-world design examples, new product introductions & panel discussions that play a critical role in the new era of systems design. To register and to view the complete agenda visit: http://www.mentor.com/events/pw2003/ Worldwide Locations - North America - Asia Pacific - Japan - Europe HW/SW Co-Verification Technical Workshops ÿ Seamless Technical Workshop ÿ Scheduled Events: San Jose, CA - May 7, 2003 Portland, OR - June 17, 2003 El Segundo, CA - July 22, 2003 Irvine, CA - July 24, 2003 Register at: http://www.mentor.com/seamless/workshops/description.html Press Coverage ÿ Seamless Version 5 (see product update above) was announced on Monday, April 14th. For additional information regarding Seamless Version 5 and other system-level verification products, the press announcement and editorial coverage can be found at http://www.mentor.com/seamless/articles/index.html _____ Best Regards, Mentor Graphics Corporation System-Level Verification Division _____ If you do not wish to receive future Seamless News updates, click here (or reply to this email message with "Remove dolinsky@gsu.by" in the subject) Copyrightc 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.