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Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), the leader in global
electronic design innovation, today announced that Silicon Hive, a
worldwide supplier of semiconductor intellectual property (IP),
achieved the highest quality for its HiveGo mobile imaging and video
decoding solutions using the Cadence(R) Palladium(R) III
Accelerator/Emulator. Palladium technology enabled Silicon Hive to
meet aggressive IP quality requirements for multi-core,
multi-million-gate designs targeting mass-market consumer products.
Both companies cooperated on the integration of Palladium
transaction-based acceleration (TBA) technology into Silicon Hive's
development flow. TBA allowed the design team to fully validate its
RTL IP by running the complete video decoding software on the
Palladium system including external system interaction.
Transaction-based acceleration (TBA) helps design and verification
teams reduce their verification time by providing new infrastructure
and guidelines to support a reusable accelerated verification
environment running at close to emulation speed. Silicon Hive
estimated the execution speed of Palladium III to be up to100 frames
of H.264 full HD resolution video per 30 minutes, and was able to
connect it via TBA to its system simulation environment executing
control software tasks over standard bus protocols.
"On top of the acceleration speed we achieved, a major advantage of
Palladium III is its full observability of our multi-core hardware,
which allows short iteration cycles in co-debugging hardware and
application software," said Dr. Jeroen Leijten, CTO at Silicon Hive.
"In our cooperation with Cadence, we explored options to extend
Silicon Hive's power estimation flow with information provided by the
Palladium System. This will allow more comprehensive analysis and
reduction of the power consumed by complex software applications
executed on our HiveGo hardware."
"Emerging companies live or die based on the success of their
products," said Ran Avinun, marketing group director of system design
and verification at Cadence. "Palladium III transaction-based
acceleration success at Silicon Hive is another example of our
ability to help customers accelerate hardware/software verification
for critical projects."
About Cadence
Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an
essential role in the creation of today's integrated circuits and
electronics. Customers use Cadence software and hardware,
methodologies, and services to design and verify advanced
semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and
telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. The company is
headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design
centers, and research facilities around the world to serve the global
electronics industry. More information about the company, its
products, and services is available at www.cadence.com.
About Silicon Hive
Silicon Hive is a worldwide supplier of semiconductor intellectual
property. The company designs, builds and licenses
application-specific solutions for communications, imaging, and video
processing using its tuned programmable HiveFlex processor cores and
complete vertical HiveGo solutions. IP cores are supported by HiveCC
program development tools, and partner supplied application
libraries. Silicon Hive products enable semiconductor and consumer
electronics companies to make fully programmable System-on-Chips
(SoCs) improving time to market performance. The patented technology
originates from 10 years of research within Philips Research and more
recent improvements, additions, and commercialization by Silicon
Hive. www.siliconhive.com.
Cadence, the Cadence logo, Incisive, and Palladium are registered
trademarks of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. in the United States and
other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.
For more information, please contact:
Andrea Huse
Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
ahuse@cadence.com
Tony Picard
Vice President of Marketing
Tel: (+31) 40 800 2020
Email: tony.picard@siliconhive.com
SOURCE: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
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