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28 November 2008

Product News

Zuken Announces Free Download of Spartan-3 FPGA Simulation Kits

Zuken announced the availability of a free simulation design kit for Xilinx® low-cost Spartan®-3 FPGAs. The new download service delivers design kits for the latest version of Zuken's high-speed design environment CR-5000 Lightning, including simulation models, net topology templates and associated documentation. The new kit enables designers to perform much faster analysis and verification of printed circuit boards (PCBs) that include Spartan-3 FPGAs.

“Performing FPGA silicon simulation during the PCB design cycle is critical for achieving performance, reliability and time-to-market objectives,” said Patrick Dorsey Senior Director, Product Management at Xilinx. “Xilinx is focused on continuous improvements to the industry’s lowest-total-cost FPGA platform and the delivery of Zuken’s new freely downloadable simulation kit provides a significant addition to the broad third party support behind the Spartan series of FPGAs to further reduce the time and development expense of getting cost-sensitive applications to market."

"Preliminary verification of PCBs using Signal Integrity (SI) simulation is very important; conducting an effective test with minimum effort is a key issue." said Werner Rissiek, General Manager Engineering Europe. "We have received a lot of requests from customers for the Spartan-3 FPGA simulation kit since last year's Virtex-5 family simulation kit announcement and we’ll soon be offering support for the Extended Spartan-3A family. Using our new simulation kit, a circuit engineer can speedily and easily evaluate signal integrity of memory I/O without the need for onerous preparation."

Xilinx design kit download site
http://support.zuken.co.uk/support/kits/xilinx.htm
A Zuken LinkZ account and password are required to access this site. This type of account is offered to Zuken customers who have a maintenance agreement.

Collaboration with Semiconductor Vendors

Zuken is working to shorten customers’ design and verification cycles, and consequently time-to-market, through collaboration with various semiconductor vendors.

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