Seamless coverification support for ARCtangent: News from Mentor Graphics UK

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Mentor Graphics is providing coverification model support for the ARCtangent user-customisable RISC/DSP core from ARC International. "System-on-chip design complexity creates a significant need for configurable core-based designs", said Serge Leef, General Manager of the Mentor Graphics System-on-Chip Verification Division. "Seamless will help designers of ARCtangent microprocessor-based systems to model the customised interactions between components in a virtual environment, ensuring that functionally accurate products are released quickly before time and resources are wasted on a physical prototype".

Today's designers need a comprehensive development platform that includes preverified peripherals, system software, embedded middleware and tools.

Seamless offers this complete development platform, ensuring that all the components work together and offer opportunities for customisation "With Mentor Graphics' Seamless coverification model support, developers of a wide array of applications can quickly and easily optimise the ARCtangent microprocessor and its peripheral intellectual property (IP) to reduce risk and development costs", said Andy Haines Sr VP of Marketing for ARC International.

"For example, the microprocessor and its peripherals can be optimised for computational performance, digital-signal processing, I/O throughput, power consumption, and silicon area.

We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial relationship with a recognised leader in the increasingly important coverification industry".

The ARCtangent microprocessor is a user-customisable RISC/DSP core for ASICs, SOCs, ASSPs and FPGAs.

It is synthesisable, configurable and extendable, enabling developers to readily modify and extend the architecture for specific applications.

In addition to the ARCtangent configurable processor and software-development tools, the ARC product range includes a real-time operating system, network-protocol stacks, USB and Ethernet peripherals, device drivers, and more.

Seamless supports all popular logic simulators and software development environments, including the Model Technology ModelSim environment.

ModelSim also supports ARC International's SeeCode debugger, an advanced and user-configurable debugger for professional software developers working on high-performance applications.

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