Hello Michael As you requested, following is your SoC Design and Verification News Update featuring SeamlessR Co-Verification and Platform ExpressTM, platform-based design. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IN THIS ISSUE: Technical Publications Seamless Update - Patch PSP Update North American Technical Events European Technical Events PacRim Technical Events -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technical Publications Scalable Verification: A Comprehensive, Flexible Methodology for Complex, Multimillion Gate Designs Download this paper and the complete SoC library at: http://www.mentor.com/soc/techpapers/ Release Seamless Patch Release - 5.0_5.1 There are two new features of Seamless that are significant for users: C Bridge Bus Monitor - a bus monitor has been added to C-Bridge to record any busy traffic that is sent over a C-Bridge bus. It collects bus load and arbitration delay data that is viewable in the Bus Loading View and Bus Arbitration Delay View windows of the Seamless Performance Profile Viewer. Generic Bus Monitor - the new generic bus monitor (Bus_Monitor), written in VHDL and Verilog, is now being delivered as part of the Seamless product. When instantiated in your hardware design, the bus monitor enables performance profile logging. The bus monitor supports up to 16 bus master connections in a design. For more information, visit our Release Center: http://www.mentor.com/codesign/main-f/centers/rctr.html PSP Update The following new PSPs have been released: ARM 1136 Motorola MPC8560 Motorola MPC8540 (release this month) Motorola MPC8280 For details on all Seamless PSP support: http://www.mentor.com/seamless/psp/app_tabl.htm North American Technical Events > Mentor Solutions for Designing & Verifying Your Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGA Seminar Mentor Graphics is the only EDA company to provide a comprehensive set of Virtex-II Pro design tools that encompass project and complexity management, functional verification, hardware/software co-verification, synthesis and board design. Tinton Falls, NJ - Oct 21 Morristown, NJ - Oct 22 Burlington, MA - Oct 23 Register today - http://www.mentor.com/fv/events/seminars/virtexII/register.cfm > International EDA Tech Forum Learn more about the latest EDA tools and solutions at the 2003 International EDA Technical Forum. This event features in-depth technical sessions and product demos featuring: IC Design and Verification, FPGA/HDL, Functional Verification, DFT and PCB. Don't miss this FREE event. Upcoming Forums: Kanata, Ontario - Oct 15 Register at: http://www.mentor.com/events/techforum/welcome.cfm?venue=30 > Verifying PrimeXsysTM Platforms Lunch & Learn Seminar Delivered by ARM, Mentor Graphics and Verisity Austin, TX - Oct 14 Dallas, TX - Oct 15 Seating is limited, register at: http://www.mentor.com/seamless/seminars/arm_verisity/ > Co-Verification Hands-On Workshops - featuring a Performance Profiling Lab! Waltham, MA - Oct 14 San Jose, CA - Nov 12 Irvine, CA - Nov 18 Register at: http://www.mentor.com/seamless/workshops/description.html European Technical Events > Mentor Graphics Solutions Expos in Europe Our Solutions Expos will feature a wide variety of opportunities to learn about new technologies from Mentor and our partners. These will include presentations, user success and methodology papers, discussion forums, hands-on-tutorials and demonstrations. The events will be shaped around four key themes making it easy for attendees to focus on their main areas of interest. These are Functional Verification, PCB System Design, IC Design & Verification and FPGA Design. Upcoming Solutions Expos will take place in: Sonthofen, Germany - Oct 9 & 10 Herzeliya, Israel - Nov 4 Event specific information available from http://www.mentor.com/events/techforum/ > Reconfigurable Systems Conference Eindhoven, The Netherlands - October 16 Hosted by "Bits&Chips" this event is focused on a specific group; the developers and technical managers who operate within the field of Reconfigurable Systems. Details of the technical program: http://www.bits-chips.nl/viewpage.asp?cat_id=87&pag_id=197&layout=events > IEE FPGA Developers Forum London, UK - Oct 21 & 22 A group of the world's top FPGA developers have been enlisted to share their expertise with electronic engineers at Europe's leading FPGA event. The IEE FPGA Developers Forum will draw together leading industry analysts, vendors and developers. Details at: http://conferences.iee.org/fpga/ Pacrim Technical Events Scaleable Verification Seminar Series This technology seminar will explore why companies are facing a verification crisis and what must happen to fix those problems. It will look at the fundamental new technologies that are offering so much promise for the future and how you can start to benefit from these today. In addition it will show you how the use of abstraction can improve your verification throughput and how you can substantially reduce time to market by applying different debug techniques. Dates and Locations: HsinChu, Taiwan - Oct 21 Seoul, Korea - Oct 24 Beijing, China - Oct 27 Shanghai, China - Oct 29 Shenzhen, China - Oct 31 For agenda and registration: http://www.mentor.com/soc/events/seminars/fv/index.cfm Pass this newsletter on to a colleague! If this newsletter has been forwarded to you from a colleague and you would you like to continue to receive this monthly newsletter register now. We will send you the latest technical publications, release information, and upcoming events. 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