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Blade2 Hardware-Assisted Verification Platform

Tue, 2011-11-08 22:59 — Gabe Moretti

EVE unveiled its ZeBu-Blade2 hardware-assisted verification platform, the first member of the ZeBu emulation family based on Xilinx Virtex6-LX760 field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

Mentor Graphics Delivers Emulation Solutions for USB SuperSpeed

Wed, 2011-10-26 08:50 — Gabe Moretti

Mentor Graphics Corp. announced hardware and software solutions to accelerate the verification of Universal Serial Bus (USB) SuperSpeed (3.0) products. These new solutions, connected to a Veloce emulator, enable designers to test their USB SuperSpeed peripheral devices integrated on their System-on-Chip (SoC) designs, and to develop and test their software drivers and firmware prior to silicon availability.

Aldec’s Emulation and Verification Tools Adopted by UC San Diego

Mon, 2011-07-25 15:55 — Gabe Moretti

Aldec, Inc. announced that the University of California, San Diego has adopted Aldec’s emulation and verification tools for their new and innovative Master of Advanced Studies (MAS) program in Wireless Embedded Systems. As part of the mutual agreement, Aldec will supply Riviera-PRO™ mixed-language RTL and gate-level simulation and HES™ emulation solutions to provide the master’s program with world class commercial EDA products.

Mentor Graphics Delivers Emulation Solutions to Verify High-Speed Ethernet Products

Thu, 2011-03-24 08:50 — Gabe Moretti

Mentor Graphics Corp. announced its next-generation platform to accelerate the verification of 100-Gigabit Ethernet products. This new platform enables network equipment designers to test their complete system, including software and hardware, as well as employ real-world network traffic early in the development cycle-reducing the total system verification process. The platform consists of the Veloce® family of emulation products and the iSolveT Ethernet Switch product, which provides a cost-effective and efficient solution to verify multi-port, Ethernet-based designs, and dynamic, accurate verification of networking systems.

EVE Enhances Emulation Platform with New Debugging Capabilities

Fri, 2011-01-28 10:13 — Gabe Moretti

EVE Has released an enhanced design debugging capabilities for its ZeBu emulation platform. This capability uses a feature called Combinational Signal Access (CSA). It allows a ZeBu system to generate complete waveforms of the design. EVE aims to enhance productivity and lower the development costs.

EVE Prevails Against Mentor Graphics’ Patent Infringement Allegation

Fri, 2010-12-17 11:24 — Gabe Moretti

EVE has just announced that the Japanese Customs Office has rendered a decision to reject Mentor Graphics’ application to suspend the importation of its best-in-class emulation systems.

Background from Mentor on Its Suit Against EVE

Wed, 2010-08-18 03:12 — Gabe Moretti

I received an email from Ry Schwark of Mentor about the suit they filed against EVE. The relatively short email gives some additional news about the background.

Ry states that:

"Mentor has over 100 patents issued and 40 more pending on emulation technologies. These patents represent a significant investment from the company and an important asset of our shareholders. We have an obligation to defend that intellectual property and to receive fair value for it." It is true that the company has a fiduciary responsibility to protect stockholders' investments. Thus if they decided to take action, they must have felt that the value of the company would be diminished unless the patent were protected.

Mentor Graphics Files Import Suspension Application Against EVE with Japanese Customs Office

Wed, 2010-07-21 19:10 — Gabe Moretti

In a recurring scenario that has become much too common in the emulation market, Mentor and EVE are once again entering into legal proceedings regarding infringements of intellectual property. This is as old a story as the introduction of an emulation product by a company different from the one that had the first product on the market. Patent infringement claims go back twenty years or more, drag on for a very long time with the intent of bleeding the smaller of the adversaries, and almost always result in either an out-of-court settlement or in finding of innocence. It is interesting that this time the battle ground of choice is Japan. What commercial interests are in danger there? As you can read, Mentor's press release is at best laconic in detailing the cause of such action. Has EVE introduced a new product that uses different architecture from its legal products anywhere else in the world? Or does Mentor market a variation on its products in Japan that contains IP not found in the rest of the world?

Hitachi Achieves Performance Boost Using Cadence Technology to Verify Complex Design

Mon, 2010-07-19 08:37 — Gabe Moretti

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that engineers at Hitachi, Ltd. successfully implemented a new system-level verification environment for Ethernet routing/switching products using the Cadence® Incisive® Palladium® transaction-based acceleration technology. The new environment, based on the Palladium emulation system and the Incisive Enterprise Simulator, increases performance by potentially 100 times over previous HDL simulation. The environment supports con strained-random test generation and offers greater control and visibility over the simulation, debugging and verification process.

EVE Achieves Record Bookings of $19.9 Million in Q4 FY2010

Tue, 2010-06-29 15:31 — Gabe Moretti

EVE today announced that it closed the last fiscal quarter of 2010 on March 31 with record bookings of $19.9 million. Further, since it began volume production in January 2010 of ZeBu-Server, its new billion-gate fast emulation platform, EVE has received purchase orders from eight semiconductor companies, including both new and long-time users of ZeBu platforms.