CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
29 July 2004
Product News
Carbon Joins 0-In's Check-In Program; Expands Hardware Regression Reach
Carbon Design Systems announced that it has joined 0-In Design Automation's Check-In Partner Program, signaling Carbon's growing presence in RTL verification flows.
Design size and complexity have skyrocketed, but existing eighties-era simulators have failed to keep pace with the growing verification challenge. The assertion synthesis capability of 0-In's Archer Verification System coupled with Carbon's high-performance DesignPlayerT engine, offers a solution that provides superior design bug identification, without sacrificing runtime performance.
"Our joint customers want to find bugs in their designs as quickly, cheaply and thoroughly as possible," remarked Steve White, President and CEO of 0-In. "Combining Carbon's high-performance DesignPlayer with the advanced assertion synthesis capability of 0-In Archer Verification System makes that goal achievable."
"Many design teams are in the unenviable position of trying to solve today's daunting verification problem with yesterday's tools," commented Steve Butler, President and CEO of Carbon. "We're finding that many customers who choose DesignPlayer for a 10 to 50x improvement over their existing simulators, are also using 0-In's assertion synthesis to uncover bugs. Providing these customers with a turn-key solution is a necessity."
Carbon's SPEEDCompilerT software reads synthesizable Verilog, VHDL, or mixed language and generates a high-performance engine-DesignPlayer. DesignPlayer can represent one or more chips and multiple engines can represent a system that encompasses hundreds of millions of gates. DesignPlayer is a soft-model that is accurate to the hardware-cycle and register accurate. Unlike behavioral models or C models generated from an ideal specification, DesignPlayer behaves exactly like the hardware with all its errata.
0-In Design Automation, Inc. (pronounced "zero-in") develops and supports functional verification products that help verify multi-million gate application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and system-on-chip (SoC) designs. For more information, see http://www.0-in.com
Carbon is delivering software products that enable high-performance pre-silicon chip and system validation. Carbon's single engine solution-DesignPlayer-can be used for hardware, software, and customer design validation. For more information visit http://www.carbondesignsystems.com
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