ARM announces verification IP

BANGALORE, INDIA: ARM has announced the AMBA Adaptive Verification IP, a unique technology that conquers the increasingly complex challenge of verifying entire on-chip communication systems.

Adaptive Verification IP enhances existing SoC verification methodologies, via the industry’s only engine for extracting and applying traffic profile information to predict how systems will perform, ARM said in a statement.

The new technology combines the time-to-market advantages of automated verification with the quality of in-context, knowledge-based verification that was previously only possible manually.

It complements existing random or directed-random methods with a powerful new approach to reducing overall verification time, improving verification confidence, and enabling the explosion in SoC size and complexity to continue.

“To be successful in the market, tomorrow’s complex consumer devices must run multiple applications simultaneously, which requires fast and efficient on-chip communication,” said Jonathan Morris, general manager of the System Design Division at ARM.

“To minimize risk, designers need a complete toolbox, including on-chip communication and verification IP, plus a tools framework that enables them to configure, analyze and verify their complex SoC devices.”

AMBA Adaptive Verification IP will be available to lead partners in Q3 2007 and generally available in Q4 2007, the statement added.