News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK
Subject: Seamless
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 23 August 2002

Coverification speeds race to ARM development

Mentor Graphics can now provide coverification model support for the high-performance ARM1020E and ARM1022E cores from ARM.

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Mentor Graphics can now provide coverification model support for the high-performance ARM1020E and ARM1022E cores from ARM. Coverification with the Mentor Graphics Seamless tool allows designers to model the interactions between hardware and software in a virtual prototype, ensuring the functional validity of the application. The process shaves months of development time and ensures that functionally correct products are released to market with minimal delay.

Advances in embedded core architectures, such as multiple buses, split transactions, write-back buffers, and streaming cache fills have increased the effort required to develop a seamless processor support package (PSP).

To streamline this development process and to ensure that co-verification support packages are available in lockstep with new architecture introductions, Mentor Graphics has implemented a new model interface, Modelware, to link the processor support models with Seamless.

Using Modelware, the ARM10 family PSPs integrate ARM's cycle-callable model (CCM) providing faster, cycle-accurate coverification in a shorter time scale.

"Our five-year relationship with ARM demonstrates a shared vision of the importance of co-verification in providing designers what they need to deliver high-quality, high-performance devices in today's competitive market", said Serge Leef, general manager of the Mentor Graphics System-on-Chip Verification division.

"Our enhanced processor support package development system is a win for ARM customers, providing rapid access to co-verification models close to new processor architecture introductions".

"As more developers of ARM powered systems apply coverification as a key element of their embedded design flows, they will continue to rely on technology like the innovative Seamless tool from Mentor Graphics to accelerate their time-to-market", said Alistair Greenhill, director of EDA Relationship Programs, from ARM.

"We have worked closely with Mentor Graphics over the past five years and continue to build on this relationship through engineering co-operation and new, performance enhanced modelling technology that leverages our cycle-callable model (CCM) technology".

The ARM1020E and ARM1022E processor cores are optimised for next-generation handheld products, digital consumer products, automotive control systems and industrial control systems.

Samsung produces ARM-core-based products aimed at the competitive consumer market and has applied coverification into its embedded design flow.

"Samsung strongly endorses the close partnership between Mentor Graphics and ARM", said Dr Kyung-Ho Kim, Principal Engineer, Telecom R and D, Telecom Network Business, Samsung Electronics.

"Coverification is an important piece of our embedded design flow and the close relationship provides us with faster access to important models that are essential to enabling our latest products to reach market quickly".

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