CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
17 August 2004
Implementation Investments
Cadence Incisive Palladium System Cuts NVIDIA's Verification Time in Half
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that NVIDIA, using the Cadence® IncisiveT Palladium® acceleration/emulation system, significantly reduced its verification time for NVIDIA's new GeForce 6800 graphics processor, its most complex, highest-performance chip to date. NVIDIA reports that the verification time savings enabled by the Palladium system allowed it to meet the market window for its new product with increased confidence in hardware performance and software quality.
The high performance Palladium system provides scalable capacity, multi-user capability, superior debug and very fast compile time, resulting in comprehensive application-level software testing. While one design team uses the Palladium system to develop software drivers, another group can simultaneously make use of the system for full-chip verification. In addition, with the Palladium system's optional remote access capability, integrated circuit design teams can provide their own customers with access to design for evaluation, design-in, and software development long before silicon is ready.
"Palladium greatly increases our overall productivity and confidence in the quality of our hardware and software," said Brian Kelleher, vice president of hardware engineering, NVIDIA. "Previously, our verification process would take about two to three days per turn-the cycle for bug detection, identification and the repair process. Now, with Palladium, we average two to three turns per day, enabling us to meet time-to-market requirements that are essential to maintaining a strong leadership position in the graphics market."
NVIDIA's new GeForce 6800 offers highly complex architecture coupled with multi-million-gate processing and memory chips. Using the Palladium accelerator/emulator, a key technology of the Incisive functional verification platform, the NVIDIA team leveraged the system's multi-user capability which NVIDIA reports enabled them to maximize efficiency and productivity. NVIDIA also utilized the Video SpeedBridge product from the Cadence SpeedBridgeT vertical application solutions to quickly create complete emulation environments.
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