Mentor Graphics Delivers Simulation and Emulation Solutions to Verify Serial Attached SCSI Products
08 4월 2013 - 10:00PM
Business Wire
Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT), a leader in advanced
system verification solutions, today announced hardware and
software solutions to accelerate the verification of Serial
Attached SCSI (SAS) second-generation (Gen2) products, having
speeds up to 6Gbps. Using the Mentor® verification solutions,
designers can test their SAS Gen2 devices integrated on their
System-on-Chip (SoC) designs, and develop and test their software
drivers and applications prior to silicon being available.
The first new product is iSolveTM SAS, which has a
‘plug-and-play’ hardware interface to the Veloce® family of
hardware emulators. It provides a cost-effective and efficient
solution to verify new SAS Gen2 target devices with their software
drivers in a SoC design. Additionally, an emulated SoC containing a
SAS initiator device, such as Host Bus Adapter, can be connected
via the iSolve SAS solution to a full-speed SAS disk drive for
testing with real target hardware. The Gen2 solution is also fully
compatible with older Gen1 speed devices. This new hardware product
adds to the existing iSolve family of solutions for the accelerated
verification of applications such as storage, networking, embedded
systems, wireless, and multimedia devices.
Complementing the iSolve solution is the SAS transaction-based
verification IP (VIP) solution. This delivers both a simulation
environment, using the Questa® verification platform, and
accelerated simulation environment using the Veloce hardware for
the verification of SAS Gen2-compliant devices. It generates the
appropriate stimuli for the Design-Under-Test (DUT), passing
packets, or transactions, of protocol data for tests. The VIP
solution also provides a high-level Application Programming
Interface (API) to allow use with multiple test-bench environments,
such as SystemVerilog and SystemC, and provides example test
environments that can exercise the emulated SAS Gen2 device. The
Gen2 SAS VIP is also fully compatible with Gen1 speed devices.
Increased bandwidth and performance requirements of enterprise
systems, especially those involving video streaming or high levels
of transactional-data, such as reservation or billing systems, have
meant that SAS has become an industry standard in the storage
application space. Additionally, its backward compatibility with
SCSI, and interoperability with Serial ATA (SATA), delivers
flexibility and cost savings to enterprises previously not
available using their traditional storage environments.
“The growth in SAS products has been increasing rapidly, and is
especially important to those in sectors where large data-intensive
storage is mandatory for the operation of applications,” said Eric
Selosse, vice president and general manager, Mentor Emulation
Division. “The challenges faced by the creators of such systems are
complex, and require high-performance verification solutions to
detect flaws early in the development cycle and to reduce risks. To
solve these challenges, we created both hardware and software
solutions for the verification of SAS Gen2 products. These products
provide flexibility and ease-of-use, including the configurable
test models that our customers require for pre- and post-silicon
testing.”
The new SAS products deliver use modes with traditional
in-circuit emulation (ICE) and high-performance, transaction-based
simulation or acceleration. When combined with Questa and Veloce2,
the latest-generation emulator from Mentor, the SAS products
deliver high-performance and easy-to-use system verification for
developing SoCs containing SAS Gen2 devices, without compromising
delivery schedules.
The Veloce2 emulator is a high-performance, dual-mode
accelerator/emulator, delivering twice the performance and capacity
of previous generations for both transaction-based verification and
traditional in-circuit emulation (ICE). With an extensive portfolio
of vertical market solutions, the Veloce2 emulator is the platform
of choice for networking, wireless, multimedia, storage, and
embedded systems applications.
Pricing and Availability
Both solutions are available for deployment at customer sites
effective immediately. For product information on the Mentor SAS
Gen2 solutions, contact your Mentor Graphics sales representative,
call 800-547-3000 or visit the website at www.mentor.com/med.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation 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 electronic, semiconductor and systems companies.
Established in 1981, the company reported revenues in the last
fiscal year of about $1,090 million. Corporate headquarters are
located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777.
World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics, Mentor, Veloce and Questa are
registered trademarks and iSolve is a trademark of Mentor Graphics
Corporation. All other company or product names are the registered
trademarks or trademarks of their respective owner.)
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