Endeavor Delivers Co-Design/Co-Verification Solution For Xilinx Virtex-II Pro FPGAs With Groundbreaking Price And Simplicity
Endeavor's CoSimple(TM) Provides PowerPC Modeling With Direct HDL Synchronization For Under $10,000
HILLSBORO, OR and SAN JOSE, CA--(INTERNET WIRE)--Jul 23, 2002 -- Endeavor Intertech Corporation and Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX - news) today announced a CoSimple(TM) hardware/software co-simulating
solution from Endeavor for the Xilinx® Virtex-II Pro(TM)
FPGAs, containing the IBM PowerPC(TM) 405 processor core.
Endeavor's Virtex-II Pro CoSimple tool is the first EDA
tool to address both the unique requirements of the Platform
FPGA customer in a package that caters to the budgetary
realities associated with today's economy.
CoSimple, the latest of Endeavor's Unified Simulation(TM)
product line, contains Endeavor's TransAccurate(TM) instruction
set simulator, rich interactive debugging capabilities based
on the GNU gdb interface, and a cycle-accurate Virtual Bus
Model. CoSimple boasts flexible synchronization and communication
with hardware simulators like Model Technology's ModelSim
Verilog and VHDL products. For under $10,000 in single quantities,
CoSimple provides virtually the same co-verification capabilities
of existing co-verification environments, in a simple-to-use
package.
"Endeavor's CoSimple model provides a cost-effective mechanism
for high performance, interactive debugging of both the
hardware and software components of the Virtex-II Pro FPGA,"
said Rich Sevcik, senior vice president FPGA Products. "Software
developers can now develop and test final, unmodified applications
in parallel with the hardware effort, shaving months off
of time-to-market. For the hardware developer, CoSimple
makes it possible to verify even the most difficult-to-test
hardware components because the actual application software
can be used to verify components under final design conditions."
CoSimple interfaces to the free GNU tools available through
Xilinx pre-targeted to the Virtex-II Pro and the PowerPC
405 core. The well-known GNU gdb debugger provides the essential
user interface to the co-simulating model, with complete
support for source debugging, breakpoints, interrupts, and
memory accesses. Under the surface, CoSimple is not only
simulating instructions for the debugger, but also providing
the inter-process communication and synchronization between
the software debugger and the hardware debugging environment.
Thus, hardware developers can, for example, run test vectors,
break on a specific location, and compare resultant waveforms.
Pricing and Availability
CoSimple for the Virtex-II Pro direct-to-HDL hardware/software
co-verification package is available immediately on Solaris,
and soon on Windows PC. It includes the TransAccurate ISS,
PPC405 BFM, GNU debugger, and has interfaces to a Model
Technology ModelSim or Synopsys VCS HDL simulator. Endeavor
is at work on support for Cadence's NC-Sim and family products
as well. For US $9,999 (quantity one), no additional tools
or EDA environments are necessary.
The TransAccurate PPC405 model for the Virtex-II Pro can
be licensed separately from CoSimple, for designers that
require integration with their own simulation environments.
Endeavor's TransAccurate PPC405 core ISS models (with and
without Virtex-II Pro enhancements) are available immediately
on Sun workstations for US$7,999. PC and Linux versions
will be available soon.
About Endeavor Intertech Corporation
Endeavor is the only co-verification EDA tool company currently
addressing the needs of an industry that demands more productivity
on tighter budgets. Endeavor specializes in Unified Simulation,
an Integrated Simulation Environment (ISE) consisting of
high performance processor models, co-simulation interfaces
and tools for hardware and software verification. Endeavor
has been in the business of developing EDA tools and models
since 1997, and has quietly established itself as a leading
model developer for its EDA and processor design customers.
Endeavor creates processor and virtual bus models for DSP,
VLIW, RISC, and other embedded cores and processors.
For more information on Endeavor's processor models and
other hardware/software verification tools, please contact
your Endeavor Intertech representative at info@endeav.com, or 1-503-628-6200
x100. See Endeavor Intertech on the web at www.endeav.com.
About Xilinx
Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ:XLNX - news) is the worldwide leader in programmable
logic solutions. Additional information about Xilinx is
available at www.xilinx.com.
CoSimple, TransAccurate and CoOperate are trademarks of
Endeavor Intertech Corporation. The PowerPC name is a registered
trademark of IBM Corp., and is used under license therefrom.
Other brands and products referenced herein are the trademarks
or registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Contact: Contact: David N. Glass
Company: Endeavor Intertech Corporation
Title: President
Voice: 503-628-6200 x100
Email: glass@endeav.com
