Mentor Graphics Delivers Hardware-Assisted Solution for the Accelerated Verification of Serial-ATA II Products
07 7월 2009 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT), a leader in
high-performance system verification solutions, today announced its
hardware-assisted solution to accelerate the verification of
Serial-ATA (SATA) II products, including hard disk drives (HDD) and
optical CD/DVD drives.
This new solution enables designers to test their
system-on-chips (SoCs) that control a HDD or optical drive by
providing an accurate, hardware-based model of the real disk drive
connected to their SoC. This iSolveTM SATA product has a
�plug-and-play� interface to the Veloce� family of
hardware-assisted emulators, providing a cost-effective and
efficient solution to verify SATA designs. The new product adds to
the existing iSolve family of solutions for the accelerated
verification of applications such as multimedia, networking,
embedded systems, wireless, and storage devices.
The foundation stone of the consumer storage industry is based
on the ATA (Advanced Technology Attachment) protocol, which has
evolved into today�s widely used serial�ATA standard. With the
ever-increasing demands from higher data transfer technologies,
SATA has allowed manufacturers to push forward the operating speeds
of storage devices to 3Gb/s with the application of the SATA II
standard. These devices play a major role in many of today�s
products, from consumer to network storage devices, and place a
heavy burden on SoC designers who need to verify how their designs
interact with the SATA devices connected to them.
�New consumer and network storage products increasingly depend
upon the use of the latest-generation SATA devices, and design
engineers are concerned over how they can quickly and efficiently
verify their SoC designs that connect to these devices,� said Jim
Kenney, Mentor Emulation Division (MED) director of marketing. �We
took a new approach to solve these challenges with our iSolve SATA
product by providing a flexible, easy-to-use, and highly
configurable SATA device model. This gives our customers the
ability to verify multiple configurations and descriptions of SATA
devices, all with the same emulator solution rather than needing
many specific devices.�
Combined with the Veloce emulation family, the iSolve SATA
product delivers a high-performance and easy-to-use system
verification environment to develop new SoCs containing a SATA
controller without compromising delivery schedules. The solution
offers several key benefits:
- Easy-to-use configuration tool
means users are able to parameterize their SATA HDD or CD/DVD drive
quickly and start their SoC verification as soon as possible
- Productive debug environment
provides access to low-level transactions to detect those
hard-to-find bugs
- High-speed data accesses to
allow loading or unloading of GBytes of data in minutes rather than
hours
- Compliant to SATA 2.6
standard
The iSolve SATA solution can be used with traditional in-circuit
emulation (ICE) as well as a high-performance transaction-based
acceleration mode of operation. The ability to mix and match
traditional ICE capabilities with high-performance,
transaction-based acceleration facilitates the smooth transition
from simulation-centric use models to in-circuit emulation. The
solution is available for deployment at customer sites effective
immediately.
For product information on Mentor�s network verification
platform, contact your Mentor Graphics sales representative, call
1-800-547-3000, or visit the website at
www.mentor.com/med.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in
electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing
products, consulting services and award-winning support for the
world�s most successful electronics and semiconductor companies.
Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12
months of about $800 million and employs approximately 4,425 people
worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman
Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777. World Wide Web site:
http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics and Veloce are registered trademarks and iSolve
is a trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company
and/or product names are the trademarks and/or registered
trademarks of their respective owners.)
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