Cadence teams up with Wind River Systems

SAN FRANCISCO: EDA retailer Cadence Design Systems Inc. announced a partnership with embedded software dealer Wind River Systems Inc. and introduced an integrated verification computing platform said to unite simulation, acceleration and emulation into a solitary verification environment.

Cadence (San Jose, Calif.) in addition outlined a latest application-driven approach to system design and development, described as a blueprint for countering the semiconductor industry's greatest danger. Cadence names its latest vision for the industry EDA360.

Cadence stated that the technical partnership between Cadence and Wind River focuses to combine the Cadence Incisive software extensions and Wind River's Simics virtual platform. Also company added that it expects this approach to enable engineers to widen electronic designs on a virtual platform well in advance of hardware accessibility.

Palladium XP is the verification computing platform, which will enable design and verification teams to bring up their hardware/software environment quicker and generate better quality embedded systems in a shorter time.

Cadence said that Palladium XP supports design configurations up to 2 billion gates, delivering performance up to 4 MHz and supporting up to 512 users at the same time,. The platform in addition provides system-level solutions, which include low-power analysis and metric-driven verification, the company stated.

According to Cadence, Palladium XP provides developers with a high-fidelity demonstration of their design so they can find and fix bugs, resulting in better quality IP, subsystems, SoCs and systems.

The company said that Cadence's EDA360 vision maintains issues a dare to the semiconductor and EDA communities to deal with the increasing "profitability gap" that threatens the life of the electronics industry. EDA is at a junction and must transform in order to carry on as an independent market, or else it will struggle to resolve the increasingly difficult problems clients are facing at the moment and in the future.

According to Cadence, regardless of the customer demand for electronics, development practices are choking the improvement that present technology makes possible, EDA360 outlines an application-driven development model where hardware is intended and developed to enthusiastically meet the requirements of the application, Cadence said.