CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
26 June 2007
Product News
Mentor Graphics Delivers Verification Solutions for ARM Processor-based Wireless and Multimedia Applications
Mentor Graphics Corp. extends support of iSolve T emulation-based IP products for ARM® processors to enable the high-speed verification of wireless and multimedia applications, and reduce time to market. Mentor's iSolve products take full advantage of the high-performance system verification capabilities of Mentor's recently announced VeloceT hardware assisted verification platform.
Mentor's iSolve family of vertical market solutions now includes support for the ARM RealView® Core Tile for the ARM11T MPCoreT multiprocessor and the Soft Macrocell Model for the ARM1176JZF-ST processor, adding to the existing iSolve portfolio for the ARM7T, ARM9T and ARM11T processor families.
Mentor's iSolve products enable designers to reduce the hardware/software integration and verification effort by utilizing fast, high-fidelity models, which replace custom hardware prototypes with hardware-assisted, system-level verification solutions. With the inclusion of one or more models in a design, system verification can be performed at megahertz speeds using transaction-based acceleration or in-circuit emulation from Mentor's recently announced Veloce product. (See " Mentor Graphics Launches Veloce Product Family Delivering Industry's Fastest Functional Verification Platform ," April 16, 2007.)
"We recognize that for designers to develop today's leading-edge hand-held wireless and multimedia devices, they need access to the most up-to-date verification solutions," said John Cornish, vice president of marketing for the System Design Division at ARM. "Mentor's iSolve products provide a fast, proven verification solution for systems based on the ARM11 MPCore multiprocessor and ARM1176JZF-S processor. Combining the speed and accuracy of ARM RealView Core Tiles and Soft Macrocell Models (SMMs) with the visibility and debug capabilities of the Mentor hardware emulator addresses the needs of our joint customers, who face huge challenges delivering their products on time in the rapidly converging mobile communications and digital entertainment markets."
"We have worked closely with ARM for many years to implement solutions for our customers to address the verification challenges faced in embedded system design," stated Eric Selosse, Mentor Emulation Division (MED) vice president and general manager. "Our combined industry-leading technologies deliver reliable and easy-to-use verification solutions to help our customers develop new and innovative consumer products without compromising delivery schedules. We are delighted to add these new ARM11 processors to our portfolio of iSolve products."
Using Mentor's iSolve solutions with ARM RealView Core Tiles and SMMs, customers can take advantage of a powerful, hardware-assisted co-verification environment that speeds execution times by up to 10,000 times that of regular software simulators. In particular, Mentor's iSolve solutions for the ARM architecture are based on fully validated models, created by ARM and delivered to Mentor. Additionally, they provide a connection to the ARM debug tools, such as RealView ICE, for detailed software debugging. As the iSolve solutions for the ARM architecture are based upon a full model of the ARM processor represented in hardware they execute significantly faster than equivalent software models. This allows designers to readily run large amounts of software code against their hardware and expose design flaws early in the verification process.
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