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Background from Mentor on Its Suit Against EVE

Wed, 2010-08-18 04:12 — 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 20:10 — 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 09:37 — 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 16:31 — 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.

Mentor Graphics Underscores Support for OVM and Extends That Support to UVM

Mon, 2010-06-07 10:36 — Gabe Moretti

Mentor Graphics Corp. will continue to deliver comprehensive support for the Open Verification Methodology (OVM), and is extending that same level of support for the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM). Key technologies that support OVM and have been extended to support UVM include the Questa advanced verification platform, the Questa Multi-view Verification Components library and the Veloce emulation platform.

EVE's ZeBu Emulation System Adopted by STMicroelectronics

Mon, 2010-06-07 09:29 — Gabe Moretti

EVE today announced that STMicroelectronics, a world leader in set-top box and digital TV chips, has adopted the ZeBu emulation system, including EVE's extensive catalog of ZeBu transactors and memory models, for use in the development of 3D graphics and advanced video codec technologies.

EVE Adds Support for TLM-2.0 to ZeBu Hardware-Assisted Verification Platforms

Tue, 2010-06-01 11:02 — Gabe Moretti

EVE announced that ZeBu fast emulation platforms support the Transaction-Level Modeling Standard (TLM)-2.0, the Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) interface standard for SystemC model interoperability and reuse, through a TLM-2.0 transactor adapter.

Mentor Graphics Veloce Delivers 400X Acceleration for OVM Driven Verification

Fri, 2010-05-07 13:59 — Gabe Moretti

Mentor Graphics Corp. announced that the Veloce emulation platform fully supports the Open Verification Methodology (OVM). The primary advantage to companies using both the OVM and the Veloce platform is the ability to use a single transaction-based testbench for both simulation and emulation-two technologies that are critical to the functional verification of large, complex system-on-chip (SoCs) designs.

Cadence Debuts Verification Computing Platform

Mon, 2010-04-26 09:28 — Gabe Moretti

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. today announced the first fully integrated high-performance verification computing platform, called Palladium XP, that unifies simulation, acceleration and emulation into a single verification environment. Developed to support next-generation designs, the highly scalable Palladium XP verification computing platform lets design and verification teams bring up their hardware/software environment faster and produce better quality embedded systems in a shorter time.

Synopsys Introduces the HAPS-60 Series of Rapid Prototyping Systems

Mon, 2010-04-19 09:10 — Gabe Moretti

Synopsys, Inc. has created the HAPS®-60 series of rapid prototyping systems -- a comprehensive solution that, according to the company, eases complex SoC design and verification challenges. The HAPS-60 series, part of the Confirma Rapid Prototyping Platform, is an easy-to-use and cost-effective rapid prototyping system that enables early hardware/software co-verification and system-level integration at near-real-time run-rates, using at-speed, real-world interfaces.