Tensilica and EVE Speed
SoC Development Times
Agreement Speeds Development
of Complex SoCs With Multiple Xtensa Processors
Santa
Clara and San Jose, Calif. -- May
10, 2005 --
Tensilica, Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.), the
only company to automate the design of optimized
application-specific configurable processors
for system-on-chip (SoC) design, and Emulation
and Verification Engineering (EVE) (San Jose,
Calif.), an innovator in advanced verification
technologies, today announced an agreement
that speeds the design of complex SoCs with
multiple Xtensa processors.
This agreement will allow Tensilica's
customers to download pre-verified register transfer
level (RTL) code produced by Tensilica's Xtensa
Processor Generator into EVE's hardware prototyping
platform for integrated whole-chip design verification. Tensilica's
Xtensa Xplorer development environment will be
linked to EVE's ZeBu hardware-based verification
product to provide hardware/software co-verification
and improve overall SoC simulation and debugging.
The combination of EVE's automatic compiler technology
for mapping SoCs to field programmable gate arrays
(FPGAs) and Tensilica's Processor Generator ensures
that customers will quickly be up and running with
a best in class, unified hardware system debug
and software validation environment.
Says Alain Raynaud, EVE's technology
center director: "The challenge of verifying
huge SoC designs with multiple processors is ideally
suited to our ZeBu prototyping platform. With this
methodology, we significantly accelerated the development
of the whole-chip hardware prototype, so engineers
can spend their time designing the application
and running it on the prototype at MHz speed. It
significantly reduces the need for block-level
hardware verification and eliminates the pain traditionally
associated with hardware emulation."
"This is an important step in SoC
design," affirms Larry Przywara, director of strategic
alliances for Tensilica. "While our processors
are guaranteed correct by construction, they must
be integrated into a highly complex SoC. By providing
our users with easy access to EVE's ZeBu prototyping
platform, they should be able to quickly verify
their entire SOC designs."
About Emulation and Verification
Engineering
EVE pioneers a new approach to hardware-assisted
verification that combines the best aspects of
traditional emulation and rapid prototyping systems
into a single, unified environment for both ASIC/SoC
debugging and embedded software validation. It
has offices in San Jose, Calif. Telephone:
(408) 881-0440. Fax: (408) 904-5800. It
also has offices in Palaiseau, France. Telephone:
(33) 1 64532730. Fax: (33) 1 64532740. Email: info@eve-team.com.
Web Site: http://www.eve-team.com .
About Tensilica
Tensilica was founded in July 1997
to address the growing need for optimized, application-specific
microprocessor solutions in high-volume embedded
applications. With a configurable and extensible
microprocessor core called Xtensa, Tensilica is
the only company that has automated and patented
the time-consuming process of generating a customized
microprocessor core along with a complete software
development tool environment, producing new configurations
in a matter of hours. For more information, visit www.tensilica.com .
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Editors'
Notes:
- Tensilica and Xtensa are
registered trademarks belonging to Tensilica
Inc. All other company and product names are
trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their
respective owners.
- Tensilica's announced licensees
include Agilent, ALPS, AMCC (JNI Corporation),
Astute Networks, ATI, Avision, Bay Microsystems,
Berkeley Wireless Research Center, Broadcom,
Cisco Systems, Conexant Systems, Cypress, Crimson
Microsystems, ETRI, FUJIFILM Microdevices, Fujitsu
Ltd., Hudson Soft, Hughes Network Systems, Ikanos
Communications, LG Electronics, Marvell, NEC
Laboratories America, NEC Corporation, NetEffect,
Neterion, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT),
NVIDIA, Olympus Optical Co. Ltd., sci-worx, Seiko
Epson, Solid State Systems, Sony, STMicroelectronics,
Stretch, TranSwitch Corporation, and Victor Company
of Japan (JVC).
- EVE acknowledges trademarks
or registered trademarks of other organizations
for their respective products and services
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