DSP Group and Endeavor Intertech Announce
High Performance, Certified Accurate Instruction
Set Simulation
for TeakDSPCore®
ISS Co-Developed with Synopsys as Co-Verification
Component
SAN JOSE, California, IP 2000 System-on-Chip Conference, March 20, 2000
–Endeavor Intertech Corporation and DSP Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: DSPG)
announced today the launching of IPSim for Teak™, the new Certified
Accurate Instruction Set Simulator (ISS); the first user-extensible core
simulator based on DSP Group’s popular TeakÒ
core architecture. Endeavor’s IPSim™ delivers a cycle-accurate ISS that
boasts performance approaching 100,000 instructions per second. Endeavor and
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) have worked closely to insure that the
resultant model satisfies the stringent demands of accuracy and completeness
required by hardware/software co-verification users, in environments like
Synopsys’ Eaglei®.
Endeavor’s Certified Accurate endorsement insures licensees that IPSim
for Teak is 100% cycle and pin accurate, based on DSP Group’s own hardware
functional and stimulus/response timing test vectors. An IPSim model is not
accepted as Certified Accurate until every pin on every cycle and every
functional result is correct for each test vector supplied by DSP Group.
IPSim for Teak achieves this stringent requirement. For this reason, IPSim
for the Teak evokes the highest confidence whether used in HW/SW
co-verification or as a standalone software algorithm simulator.
"We are pleased with our association with Endeavor," said DSP
Group’s Director of Development Tools & SW Support, Eyal Ben-Avraham.
"Their attention to detail and resulting accuracy provides our
TeakDSPCore licensees with a tool that will increase confidence in their
System-on-Chip designs while at the same time reducing time to market."
IPSim for Teak was crafted to fill a gaping hole in the design of tools
for such architectures—easy extensibility. DSP Group has designed the Teak
as a core, which their customers enhance with additional functional units
and devices. IPSim for Teak provides the same flexibility to the user, using
Endeavor’s IPXtend™ technology. IPXtend enables customers to write
C-model components of the additional functional units that are automatically
instantiated the next time IPSim is run. This allows the customer to make
unique chip simulators out of a single IPSim core.
"Accuracy is essential," said Dan Budge, vice president and CTO
of Endeavor Intertech. "But accuracy with performance and extensibility—especially
with an architecture as advanced as the Teak—turns a single purpose tool
into an essential instrument for considering design tradeoffs, performing
co-verification, and developing system software."
"Cycle accuracy is highly valued by HW/SW co-verification users,
because it allows them to accurately analyze the HW/SW performance of their
real-time DSP-based system on chip applications before going to
synthesis," said Dr. Geoffrey Bunza, vice president of Synopsys’
Large Systems Technology Group. "Synopsys, DSP Group and Endeavor
Intertech have worked closely together to produce this highly accurate, high
performance solution."
The Teak is the second member of the TeakDSPCore family. Teak is a Dual
MAC 16-bit fixed-point licensable DSP with an excellent code compactness. It
is designed as soft-core and targeted to low-power applications. The
Teak is aimed at higher performance-oriented applications such as cellular
3G, fast modems and VoIP Gateways.
IPSim for Teak is available with an ICE-like interface, as well as a C
debugger interface. It features a waveform generation tool, which displays
or generates any net-based signal waveform. Additionally, IPSim for Teak can
be combined with other IPSim models to simulate a fully synchronized,
complex multiprocessor simulation.
The Teak co-verification model will be distributed by Synopsys for the
Synopsys Eaglei® product line and other hardware/software
co-verification environments. Endeavor will market a standalone version of
IPSim for Teak for software developers. The IPSim models will be available
for Windows and Unix workstations in Q2 2000.
About Endeavor Intertech Corporation
Endeavor Intertech develops IPSim, world-class high performance,
cycle-accurate instruction set and intellectual property simulators that can
be applied to hardware/software co-verification, co-design, or as standalone
instruction set simulators for software developers. Endeavor Intertech
develops these and other software tools for DSP, VLIW, RISC, and other
embedded cores and processors for its EDA and processor design customers.
Endeavor also develops custom bus models to create turnkey HW/SW
co-verification capable packages.
For more information on Endeavor Intertech’s IPSim, please contact your
Endeavor Intertech representative at sales@endeav.com, or 1-503-628-6200.
See Endeavor Intertech on the web at http://www.endeav.com.
About DSP Group, Inc.
DSP Group, Inc. is a global leader in the development and marketing of
high-performance, cost-effective, licensable digital signal processing
cores. The company’s family of SmartCores™ DSPs provide ideal solutions
for low-power speech and audio processing, wireless communication
technologies such as 3G, GSM and CDMA, broadband modems, multimedia,
advanced telecommunication systems, disk drive controllers and many other
types of embedded control applications. By combining its DSP core
technologies with its proprietary, advanced speech-processing algorithms –
DSP Group also delivers a wide range of enabling, application specific ICs
for full-featured integrated telephony products and applications, including
digital spread spectrum wireless technologies. DSP Group, Inc. maintains an
international presence with offices located around the globe. For more
information visit DSP Group’s web site at http://www.dspg.com.
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. is a leading supplier of electronic design automation (EDA)
solutions to the global electronics market. The company provides
comprehensive design technologies to creators of advanced integrated
circuits, electronic systems and systems on a chip. Synopsys also provides
consulting services and support to its customers to streamline the overall
design process and accelerate time-to-market. Additional information about
Synopsys is available at http://www.synopsys.com.
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IPSim™, IPXtend™ and IPSim for Teak™ are trademarks of
Endeavor Intertech Corporation.
SmartCores™ is trademark of DSP Group, Inc.
TeakDSPCoreÒ and TeakÒ
are registered trademarks of DSP Group, Inc.
Synopsys® and Synopsys Eaglei® are
registered trademarks of Synopsys, Inc.
Other brands and products referenced herein are the trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holders.
For more information, contact:
For Endeavor
Intertech Corporation:
David N. Glass
Tel: (503) 628-6200 x100
e-mail: glass@endeav.com |
For DSP Group:
Bat-Sheva Ovadia
Director, Marketing &Business Development
Tel: +972-9-952-9616
e-mail: batsheva@dsp.co.il
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