CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
27 October 2004
Implementation Investments
Institute of Computing Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences Selects Mentor Emulator
Mentor Graphics Corp. (Nasdaq:MENT) today announced that the Institute of Computing Technology (ICT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has selected the VStationT PRO emulation system as its accelerated verification platform for its Goodson series central processing unit (CPU) chip.
The Goodson series CPU design is comprised of 32-bit integer and 64-bit floating point functions with performance of 200MIPS at up to 266MHz clock frequency. Since its functionality is complicated, complete functional verification for such chips can require several months. The VStationPRO emulator provides RTL or gate-level verification for designs up to 120 million gates and is widely used for the functional verification of complex system designs such as CPUs, image processors and multi-media/communications system-on-chips (SoCs).
"With the great help of Mentor's advanced VStationPRO verification system, ICT will be able to slash verification time and supply its customers with fully verified Goodson CPUs in a short time period, which will accelerate its adoption," said Mr. Tang Zhimin, the technical principal of the Goodson chip project at the Institute of Computing Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The VStationPRO emulator is the Mentor Emulation Division's sixth-generation VStation product family and provides the high performance and capacity required for such applications as hardware/software co-verification, accelerated verification, direct code verification and in-circuit emulation (ICE). Complex system design verification can be greatly shortened while ensuring highest function coverage with the VStation solution, with emulation speed thousands of times faster than other methodologies. The VStation system was used to reduce verification time for the Goodson CPU design.
"ICT selected the VStationPRO emulator as its Goodson series CPU functional verification platform because of Mentor's advanced technology and excellent support," said Danny Perng, general manager, Mentor Graphics China. "We are pleased that our most advanced emulation platform will contribute to the success of the Goodson series chip design and verification flow."
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