Cadence Expands System-Level Verification IP, SpeedBridge Adapters

Concentrating on transaction-based acceleration and in-circuit emulation use models, Cadence Design Systems reportedly has expanded its system verification IP and Cadence SpeedBridge Adapters portfolio.

 

System verification and validation engineers, with the company’s new products, are expected to improve the final quality of their software and hardware for a low-risk path.

 

Storage applications are the main target of new SATA, SAS (News - Alert) and Fiber Channel SpeedBridge Adapters. The full speed SATA hard drive, the SCSI Disk Enclosure or the Fiber Channel switches can now be connected to the emulated storage controller designs with the help of these adapters. To achieve the complete end-to-end validation solution quickly, officials say, system-level testing requires a real-world environment. Cadence emulators and the SpeedBridge Adapters provide this environment with their new adapters.

 

Now, the emulated design can interface with real USB devices such as thumb drives, disk drives and cameras with the help of the USB Host SpeedBridge Adapter. It also supports SATA, SAS, USB 2.0 and Fiber Channel protocols, company officials say. Customers can now validate a complete design with USB 2.0 protocol in a real system environment with the help of USB SpeedBridge Adapter pair (host and device).

 

System engineers can emulate the design with real application requirements, such as booting the operating system, transferring files, and displaying graphics and video. This is made possible as Cadence SpeedBridge Adapters connect Cadence emulators to external systems, networks, test equipment and mother boards running at full speed. Sold as plug-n-play or as customizable products, the adapters are provided as a reusable solution. Also, to support vertical solutions for 11 protocols and emulation environments, the company has enhanced its broad portfolio of SpeedBridge Adapters.

 

Catering to the requirements of PCI Express 2.0 and Ethernet protocols, the new PCI Express 2.0 and 10 Gbit Ethernet TBA VIP support Cadence advanced transaction-based acceleration verification. While Ethernet TBA VIP supports MII, GMII and XGMII interfaces, the PCI Express 2.0 TBA VIP supports both root complex and endpoint devices.

 

Recently, as reported by TMCnet, Cadence teamed up with ARM (News - Alert) to provide Hardware-Software Emulation Environment.

 

“The portfolio of SpeedBridge Adapters and system-level VIP further enables Cadence to provide our customers technology leadership in acceleration and emulation,” Ran Avinun, System Design and Verification marketing group director, said at the time. “The portfolio provides Xtreme and Palladium Accelerator/Emulator series customers the best ROI with reusability, fast bring-up time and high verification quality for variety of vertical markets.”