Advanced Verification Technologies Added to Cadence Incisive Enterprise
Portable Design News, Monday December 03, 2007
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has announced that fundamental new technologies have been integrated into the Cadence Incisive Enterprise verification family that enable engineering teams to address increasingly complex chip design for products such as multi-mode cell phones, gaming consoles and HD-DVD players.
Incisive technologies now offer support for the newly developed Open Verification Methodology (OVM), a powerful new aspect-oriented generation engine, and the second generation of Cadence transaction-based acceleration (TBA) with native support of multiple testbench languages and numerous productivity enhancements. The new aspect-oriented generation engine leverages aspect-oriented programming (AOP) architected testbenches to improve performance and scalability. These major enhancements to the Cadence Incisive Specman, Incisive Enterprise Simulator, and the Incisive Palladium and Xtreme hardware acceleration/emulation systems are in addition to numerous productivity enhancements.
Incisive Enterprise Simulator and Incisive Specman feature a new aspect-oriented generation engine targeted for advanced verification specialists executing complex, aspect-oriented sequences against large designs. The new engine increases performance by nearly five times for e-based verification environments.
Support for Open Verification Methodology
As design complexity escalates, building and debugging verification testbenches becomes increasingly difficult. The mixed-language Incisive Enterprise Simulator now supports the Open Verification Methodology and its underlying class library, which significantly reduces the time it takes to create SystemVerilog verification environments and ensures code portability and reuse. This results in improved overall team productivity and greater predictability in the verification process. In addition, enhanced class-based debug utilities help manage the complexity of object-oriented testbench code. A new multi-language verification builder utility enables users to leverage existing templates, rapidly configure verification IP and accelerate early testbench development.
Second-Generation Transaction-Based Acceleration
The Incisive Enterprise verification family delivers new capabilities to improve the productivity for system-level verification using Xtreme and Palladium hardware acceleration/emulation systems. A new version of Cadence TBA is compliant with the Accellera SCE-MI 2.0 draft standard, ensuring automation, ease of use and platform portability while delivering high performance. TBA 2.0 helps design and verification teams reduce their verification time by providing new infrastructure and guidelines to support reusable accelerated verification environment. The new TBA version combines methodology and product delivery, with a number of features that simplify the creation and debugging of transaction-based verification environments and verification IP, including: a native multi-language transaction-level modeling interface, automatic variable-length messaging, constraint randomization, automated transaction-level recording and powerful signal/transaction-level debugging capabilities.
Incisive Enterprise Simulator 6.2, Incisive Specman 6.2 and TBA 2.0 enabled Incisive Palladium and Incisive Xtreme are currently available.
Cadence Design Systems Inc, San Jose,CA (408) 943-1234 [www.cadence.com]
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