CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
26 July 2004
Implementation Investments
Soft Mixed Signal Corporation Names Denali Software PCI Express Interface Verification Vendor
Soft Mixed Signal Corporation said that it has standardized its interface verification process with software from Denali Software Inc.
It is using Denali's PureSpecT PCI Express verification IP to verify its PCI Express PHY Interface for its PCI Express (PIPE) compliant PHY IP. In partnership with Denali Software, it will also distribute and market an integrated PIPE PHY IP with PureSpec.
The combination of Soft Mixed Signal PHY IP and Denali's PureSpec verification IP produces a verification environment that ensures interoperability and PCI Express compliance. Designers can find potential bugs early in the development cycle before system on chip (SoC) designs are implemented in silicon, saving development time and getting higher quality products to market faster.
"Delivering high-quality products for our customers' next-generation chips is of critical importance to us," notes Muzaffer Kal, chief technology officer (CTO) of Soft Mixed Signal Corporation. "Denali's PureSpec has allowed us to deliver a fully compliant, verified and highly reliable PHY IP. We are impressed with the sophisticated system environment generated by PureSpec. It covers the complete PCI Express topology and tests boundary conditions and various operating modes required for complete interoperability verification."
Soft Mixed Signal's SMSPIPE IP is PCI-Express 1.0a and PIPE Specification compliant PHY Core. Differentiating features include: unique and proprietary clock recovery architecture for noise tolerant performance; portable and able to be integrated with SoC applications; SMS' novel and proprietary approach to multi-lane architecture yields fully-modularized, optimal single lane and flexible multi-lane (up to 32X) designs; very competitive power dissipation; smallest die size available. SMSPIPE is available on 180nm and 130nm processes.
Founded in 1995, Soft Mixed Signal Corporation is a semiconductor IP company offering solutions for LAN, WAN and high-speed connectivity markets. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., it develops system-level PHY (Physical Layer) / transceiver semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) solutions for LAN, WAN, SAN/Connectivity markets using proprietary mixed-signal and digital signal processing (DSP) technologies. Soft Mixed Signal Corporation can be reached on the Internet at: http://www.softmixedsignal.com
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