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20 September 2004

Implementation Investments

Wolfson Microelectronics Chooses Verific HDL Component Software; Verific Now Part of Internal Design Environment

Wolfson Microelectronics plc , a supplier of mixed-signal semiconductors for the digital consumer electronics market, announced it has purchased software from Verific Design Automation and is using it as part of its internal design environment.

The increasing digital complexity of Wolfson's advanced mixed-signal products has motivated a transition of its digital design flow from a partly schematic, partly Verilog hardware description language (HDL), flow to a fully Verilog HDL based flow. Verific's HDL Component Software provides a ready-made field-proven Verilog parser and analyzer, which Wolfson is incorporating into its proprietary mixed signal design software. This enables control and manipulation of digital HDL modules in a common framework together with the analogue aspects of the circuit designs.

"Verific's tool does exactly what we need to improve our design flow for mixed-signal chips," says Jim Reid, Wolfson Microelectronics' Chief Technical Officer. "As a result, Verific has become an important design tool partner, helping us to construct an integrated tool set for mixed-signal design."

"Many semiconductor companies have developed internal design systems and/or flows," adds Michiel Ligthart, Verific's vice president of operations. "Quite often, you find those patched together with TCL or PERL scripts providing some kind of Verilog support. Wolfson Microelectronics realized its designers' need for a professional solution, and integrated Verific's Verilog parser/analyzer instead. At the end, this is all about quality and productivity."

Wolfson Microelectronics plc is a fabless semiconductor company based in Edinburgh, UK. Wolfson develops and markets high performance mixed signal semiconductors for multimedia and communications applications worldwide. The company currently has sales offices in the USA, Japan, China, Taiwan and Korea.

 

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