MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and Santa Clara, CA, September 15, 2005
Mentor, Inc. a world leader in semiconductor design software, and Intilop Corporation
of Santa Clara, California, a leading Engineering development Services and advanced
IP developer/provider, today announced that Intilop has successfully used Mentors'
Modelsim and Questa ® comprehensive RTL verification solution and Vera ®
testbench automation tool to optimize the verification process for Intilops’
Complex SoC based on multiple Large Xilinx FPGAs and Power-PC 405 series of
complex 32-bit RISC processor cores. Mentors' industry-leading verification
solutions enabled Intilops’ verification team to complete verification
with a high quality of results and a high degree of confidence.
“We are committed to providing our SoC customers with high-quality design and the means to achieve design success in first attempt,” said Kelly Masood, President at Intilop. “In our endeavor to deploy the best verification solution for our design blocks, we used the native coverage features in Mentors' Questa RTL verification solution to quickly and easily check the completeness of our RTL verification. We also used the Vera tool to create a comprehensive verification environment to allow us to ensure that the functional coverage goals were met as specified.”
The combination of Mentors technology and Intilops’ methodology enables
a solution that yields high-quality in a complex SoC design. With the use of
Mentors' ModelSim SE and Vera verification solutions and Intilop's constrained-random
test methodology, working silicon-proven processor IP was quickly produced.
By using the Vera tool to generate testbenches with constrained-random patterns
and functional coverage, the Intilop verification team reached its functional
coverage goals very quickly. At the same time, the ModelSims’ solution's
built-in coverage metrics enabled the team to measure the completeness of its
RTL code coverage during simulation.
The Verification Platform is a unified environment that provides high performance and efficiency of interaction among all platform components, including mixed-HDL simulation, mixed-signal, system-level verification, assertions, DesignWare® verification intellectual property, code coverage, functional coverage, testbenches and formal analysis. Combined with support for industry standard hardware design and verification languages, including Verilog, VHDL, SystemVerilog, SystemC™ and OpenVera ® , and Mentors' proven Reference Verification Methodology, Verification Platform helps designers achieve higher levels of verification productivity by contributing to first-time silicon success within required project cycles.
Mentors, Inc. is a world leader in electronic design automation (EDA) software for semiconductor design. The company delivers technology-leading semiconductor design and verification platforms and IC manufacturing software products to the global electronics market, enabling the development and production of complex systems-on-chips (SoCs). Mentors also provides intellectual property and design services to simplify the design process and accelerate time-to-market for its customers. Mentors is headquartered in Mountain View, California and has offices in more than 60 locations throughout North America, Europe, Japan and Asia. Visit Mentors online at http://www.Mentor.com
Intilop Corporation is one of the most respected IP developer/provider
and EDS companies. The company's broad IP portfolio includes Network search
engine, TOE engine, G-Bit MAC, 10-G-Bit MAC, G-bit intelligent Switch with Security
features, 32-bit RISC CPUs, DSPs, and Controllers for USB 2.0, Ethernet, Serial
ATA and PCI Express. They focus on designing ASICs, SoCs, SoC-FPGAs, boards,
systems and firmware/driver from concept to product. They have developed several
standard and custom silicon IPs and products in the areas of high speed Networking,
Network Security Appliances, embedded solutions, storage systems, VoIP solutions
and SANs that have been system tested and been shipping in many types of silicon.
Intilop is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. For more information please
visit http://www.intilop.com
Press Contact, Intilop Kevin Moore Dir. Business Development. 408-496-0333 Kevinm@intilop.com info@intilop.com |