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11 February 2009

Implementation Investments

Adaptive Chips Adopts Cadence Incisive Verification Solution with the Open Verification Methodology (OVM)

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that Adaptive Chips Inc. has adopted the Cadence® Incisive® functional verification solution with the Open Verification Methodology (OVM) to improve its verification process and integrate verification IP (VIP) from multiple sources. After a thorough evaluation of several methodologies, Adaptive Chips determined that the OVM offered the broadest set of capabilities best suited to scale within a multi-language SystemVerilog and e verification environment.

By choosing the Cadence Incisive solution for the OVM, Adaptive Chips is now able to integrate newly created OVM VIP with existing e-language verification components (eVCs) and Cadence VIP products to provide the differentiated solutions important to their customers. The Incisive solution has allowed the Adaptive Chips project teams to start the verification process much earlier and to better predict and achieve high-quality verification closure.

"It was essential that we had the ability to scale and leverage several forms of legacy VIP within our verification environments," said Amjad Qureshi, vice president of technology of Adaptive Chips. "The OVM's unique capabilities, robust methodology, openness, and maturity made it the obvious choice for our application. The rich debug capabilities and powerful multi-language verification engines in the Incisive technology also provided the solutions we needed to make the OVM the central part of our verification environment."

Co-created by Cadence, the OVM combines several advanced verification capabilities that the Adaptive Chips teams compared thoroughly to alternative verification methodologies. These capabilities include VIP integration, significantly lowering the overall cost of development, and hierarchically scaling of the OVM environment to the system level, enabling SoC verification. The class-based verification capabilities within the OVM were also easy to access and use, allowing the team to get up and running much earlier in the development process.

"We're excited to see the OVM and the extended ecosystem take off so quickly," said Ziv Binyamini, Corporate Vice President of R&D at Cadence Design Systems, Inc. "There are many companies such as Adaptive Chips quickly discovering the flexibility of the OVM and the power Incisive technology adds to it for VIP integration, multi-language verification, and overall ease of use."

To download the OVM please go to http://www.ovmworld.org.

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