News Release from: ProDesign
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 22 December 2005

Micronas sale is milestone for verification

ASIC and SoC verification platform specialist ProDesign has sold its 150th Chipit system.

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ASIC and SoC verification platform specialist ProDesign has sold its 150th Chipit system. Long-term customer Micronas, a semiconductor designer and manufacturer with worldwide operations, will use the newest Chipit product - the Chipit Gold Edition Pro - to verify its complex HDTV SoC designs. This is considered a clear proof of the market acceptance of the company's high-speed prototyping systems.

One of the reasons why Micronas and many other customers decided to use Chipit as their design verification methodology is the flexible and versatile field of applications of the system.

The platform gives design engineers unprecedented speed and flexibility to validate algorithm performance, verify hardware implementation and assist in hardware/software codevelopment and coverification, reducing the verification time dramatically.

Dirk Wieberneit, Vice President Product Development Consumer Products at Micronas said: 'We purchased ProDesign's Chipit Gold Edition Pro to verify our newest generation of highly complex system-on-chip (SoC) designs for the HDTV market with numerous external system interfaces and demanding image processing algorithms'.

'The new system's performance and stability impressed us'.

'We were able to successfully run all tests with our design at highest speed'.

'This helped us not only to significantly reduce our verification time but to save costs'.

Wieberneit continued: 'ProDesign is a reliable partner for our verification methodology, therefore we collaborate very closely'.

'Three years ago we implemented Chipit for the first time, and it has proved a valuable extension of our verification strategy for today's and future developments'.

Since the launch of the product line in 2001, Micronas has been using Chipit to verify cutting-edge IC and sensor system solutions for consumer electronics.

'To verify our SoC designs, we searched for a methodology that allowed us to run it in real-time'.

'In Chipit, we found a system that met our demands of speed and stability', explained Wieberneit.

'Chipit enables us to verify our complex, elaborate algorithms for image improvement in real time'.

'Thus we make sure that the first prototypes already achieve the fully developed image quality that our customers can expect from Micronas'.

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