MEDIA RELEASE PR38301
Carbon, VeriSilicon Form IP Partnership
ACTON, Mass., and SHANGHAI, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-Asia-AsiaNet/ --
Pact links VeriSilicon ZSP models to Carbon platform technology
Carbon Design Systems(TM), the leading supplier of tools for the automatic creation, validation and
deployment of system-level models and VeriSilicon(R), a silicon solutions company based in China,
announced today that they have partnered to integrate VeriSilicon's ZSP models into the Carbon SoC
Designer virtual platform. VeriSilicon's processors are fully integrated with SoC Designer and enable users to
perform implementation-accurate architectural analysis and pre-silicon firmware development.
"We are very happy to support VeriSilicon's popular ZSP Digital Signal Processor cores and have
VeriSilicon join our growing portfolio of IP partners," stated Bill Neifert, VP of Business Development for
Carbon Design Systems. "The majority of companies developing complex system on chip (SoC) designs are
using Carbon's SoC Designer virtual platform. This partnership will enable those companies to design with
VeriSilicon's ZSP processors and begin firmware development well in advance of actual silicon."
"VeriSilicon is committed to simplifying the steps needed to adopt our ZSP processors," stated Prasad
Kalluri, Corporate VP of Engineering at VeriSilicon. "System on Chip designs are getting increasingly complex
and system developers benefit greatly by using a system level modeling framework like Carbon's SoC
Designer virtual platform. Partnering with Carbon to make our ZSP Digital Signal Processor cores available in
SoC Designer enables our customers to start the firmware development process much earlier in the design
cycle and debug with full system visibility."
This integration links software models for the ZSP5XX and ZSP8XX series processors and debuggers
directly into the SoC Designer virtual platform environment. Integrated models can take advantage of all of
SoC Designer's system analysis and debug capabilities. Debug of hardware and software is completely
synchronized which enables engineers to set breakpoints in any part of the system and immediately see the
impact of hardware or software changes on the entire system.
The Verisilicon ZSP integration is available now from Carbon Design Systems.
About Carbon Design Systems
Carbon offers the leading system validation solution for complex system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Target
applications range from model generation and deployment to virtual platform creation, execution, and analysis.
Carbon provides 100% implementation accuracy on the critical components required for accurate architectural
analysis and pre-silicon hardware/software validation. Solutions are based on open industry standards,
including SystemC, IP-XACT, Verilog, VHDL, OSCI TLM, MDI, SCML, CASI, CADI and CAPI. Carbon's
customers are systems, semiconductor, and IP companies that focus on wireless, networking, and consumer
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