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
About VeriSilicon
Founded in 2001, VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. ("VeriSilicon") is a fast growing IC design foundry providing
custom solutions and SoC (System-on-A-Chip) turnkey services. VeriSilicon has an extensive track record of
accelerating customer designs from initial specification to silicon, achieving first silicon success -- on time and
on spec -- and taking customer silicon through volume production, utilizing its partner network of leading wafer
foundries and assembly and test companies in Asia Pacific. In addition to its flexible engagement model,
superior supply chain management, and strong service culture, VeriSilicon's market leading licensable digital
signal processing (ZSP(R)) cores and star IP based SoC platforms, along with value-added mixed signal IP
portfolio, are the key differentiators for its success in a broad range of application markets, including
multimedia, voice and wireless communications. VeriSilicon's global customer base of market leading
multinationals and fabless start-up companies benefit from shorter development cycles, reduced cost of
Contact:
Bill Neifert
VP Business Development
Carbon Design Systems
+1-978-264-7302
bill@carbondesignsystems.com
Richard Lee
VP Sales
VeriSilicon, Inc.
+1-408-844-8560
richard.lee@verisilicon.com
SOURCE: VeriSilicon, Inc.
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