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News Release from: Synopsys
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 17 June 2005

Award acknowledges EDA interoperability efforts

Synopsys has presented the fifth annual Tenzing Norgay EDA Interoperability Achievement Award to ARM

The award recognises ARM's collaborative EDA contributions, which include: long-term support of the Liberty standard format; its standard proposals to the Structure for Packaging, Integrating and Re-using IP within Tool-flows (SPIRIT) Consortium; its efforts in establishing a reference verification methodology based on SystemVerilog; and its drive to establish reference methodologies (RM) for implementing ARM microprocessors, including ARM Intelligent Energy Manager (IEM) technology, in silicon.

ARM was formally recognised this week at the Synopsys Interoperability Breakfast event at the 42nd Design Automation Conference (DAC).

'We are honoured to accept the Tenzing Norgay Interoperability Achievement Award in recognition of our ongoing contributions', said Neal Carney, VP of Marketing, Physical IP, ARM.

'The goal of our collaborations is to make ARM IP easy to use in every chip design and to support/create industry standards, to promote advanced solutions and to reduce the cost of system-on-chip design'.

'Through our participation in supporting established and emerging standards like Liberty, SPIRIT and SystemVerilog, and through our efforts in establishing reference methodologies including the RM extensions for IEM low-power technology, we help make available to our customers cost-effective, integrated, yet highly flexible IC design options'.

ARM is committed to interoperability and continually shows its dedication by supporting the widely used Liberty format, including advanced modelling.

The ARM co-authored SystemVerilog Verification Methodology Manual, describes advanced verification techniques using SystemVerilog.

As a key member of the SPIRIT Consortium, ARM has developed standards for IP descriptions as well as tools that increase automation levels and cut costs while improving ease-of-use and increasing flexibility in IP selection and integration.

ARM also jointly developed with Synopsys a low-power RM for implementing ARM IEM technology-enabled processors, validated with the ARM Artisan Metro low-power multiple-voltage-enabled library, that can reduce ARM processor energy consumption by up to 60%.

'Interoperability plays a key role in elevating designers to a higher level of productivity, just as Tenzing Norgay's efforts facilitated the first ascent to the top of Mount Everest', said Rich Goldman, Vice President, Strategic Alliance at Synopsys.

'We recognise that successful EDA interoperability is a result of contributions and collaboration such as ARM has demonstrated'.

'Their standard-compliant IP and Liberty format interoperable solutions complement the efforts from Synopsys and other companies who continue to push for even greater magnitudes of interoperability'.

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