Broadcom Expands Use of Veloce Platform from Mentor Graphics

Broadcom Corporation, a provider of semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, expanded its use of the Veloce hardware emulation platform from Mentor Graphics for the system-level validation of its next-generation Networking Systems.

By delivering high-performance simulation acceleration and pre-silicon, real world testing using SoC in-circuit emulation, the Veloce product family reduces project schedule and cost risk.

Both transaction-based verification and traditional in-circuit emulation (ICE) will now get high performance from the Veloce platform with dual mode accelerator and emulator. The Veloce platform is the platform of choice for multimedia, networking, wireless, and embedded systems applications with an extensive portfolio of both physical and virtual vertical market solutions. Also, Broadcom (News - Alert) continuously evaluates design verification methods to enable delivery of the highest quality product to its customers.

“Broadcom challenged us to improve their functional verification effectiveness,” said Eric Selosse, Mentor Emulation Division vice president and general manager, in a press release. “Their inspiration drove us to develop new iSolve networking solutions for in-circuit emulation. We also partnered with their protocol test vendor to engineer virtual networking traffic generation, leveraging our Testbench Xpress transaction-based acceleration technology. We look forward to continued collaboration with Broadcom to advance the state-of-the-art in design verification.”

Broadcom Corporation (News - Alert) opted for Veloce platform for its combined strength to perform in-circuit emulation and transaction-based acceleration empowers us to achieve robust system validation, the company stated. Veloce has many software and application solutions to provide a comprehensive verification environment for the client’s designs. Veloce systems and accompanying solutions and software allow design teams to quickly create reconfigurable hardware representations of new SoC designs.

In June 2010, the company released a commercial Mentor Embedded Linux platform supporting Freescale Semiconductor. Both the companies have signed a strategic alliance agreement which required the Mentor Graphics (News - Alert) Embedded Software Division to provide commercial, Linux-based software products supporting the Freescale QorIQ and PowerQUICC processors for the networking, telecommunications, military/aerospace, industrial, printing and imaging application markets, the company has announced in a press release.