WILSONVILLE, Ore., Oct. 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor
Graphics Corp. (Nasdaq: MENT), today announced the
Veloce® VirtuaLAB Ethernet environment with support for
25G, 50G and 100G Ethernet. This support enables highly
efficient, emulation-based verification for the massive
Ethernet-based designs being created today.
The huge surge in demand for connectivity has had a profound
effect on the size of switch and router designs, making them among
the largest IC designs developed today. The sheer size of the
designs, the pressure for early release, and the need to verify all
paths are creating a methodology shift that moves verification from
simulation- to emulation-based flows.
"Providing a highly scalable, high-density network foundation
for our customers' demanding environments is a top priority as we
design Juniper Networks' advanced switches and routers," said
Debashis Basu, senior vice president
of Silicon and Systems Engineering at Juniper Networks. "The
cutting-edge features in our ASICs make Veloce VirtuaLAB Ethernet
and emulation capabilities a key component for achieving
verification convergence, helping ensure that we deliver versatile,
high-performance switching and routing technology to keep pace with
evolving network requirements."
VirtuaLAB Ethernet transforms emulation for networking chips by
replacing the traditional physical devices used in In-circuit
Emulation (ICE) with virtual devices. This virtualization moves
emulation from the engineering lab to the computing datacenter for
maximum emulation resource utilization.
VirtuaLAB components provide a complete software-driven Ethernet
stack that runs at up to 15,000 times the speed of traditional
simulation. This lets VirtuaLAB Ethernet users tackle the complex
challenges of Ethernet-based designs with improved throughput,
advanced debug, power analysis and performance analysis.
"The rapid development and deployment of high-end Ethernet
products for the networking market requires access to high quality
IP and complete verification solutions," said Daniel Kohler, CTO of MoreThanIP. "We have
collaborated with Mentor over several years to enable the
deployment of robust, fully featured Ethernet verification
encapsulated in the Ethernet VirtuaLAB product. Most recently we
have collaborated to enable forward error correction (FEC)
verification for high-speed 25G, 50G, 100G designs."
The accelerated deployment of VirtuaLAB solutions in the
networking market is the result of significant and repeatable
improvements in throughput. For example, in simulation it's not
uncommon to run 1,000 packets of data per day. When compared to
emulation, the difference is staggering. Here customers report they
are running 11,000,000 packets of data per day.
"We collaborate with leading-edge networking companies to
provide solutions that address their verification challenges. The
rapid growth of these designs and the need to verify every path
creates a huge verification space resulting in a major shift from
simulation to emulation," said Eric
Selosse, vice president and general manager of the Mentor
Emulation Division. "We developed VirtuaLAB Ethernet and other
solutions that transform emulation, enabling our Veloce customers
to meet their complex verification goals."
About the Veloce Emulation platform
The Veloce
emulation platform is a core technology in the Mentor®
Enterprise Verification Platform (EVP) – a platform that boosts
productivity in ASIC and SoC functional verification by combining
advanced verification technologies in a comprehensive platform.
The Veloce emulation platform's success is a result of several
factors: high design capacity, speed of execution, and exceptional
functionality. Now considered among the most versatile and powerful
of verification tools, project teams use emulation for hardware
debugging, hardware/software co-verification or integration,
system-level prototyping, low-power verification and power
estimation, and performance characterization.
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 in excess of
$1.24 billion. Corporate headquarters
are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777.
Mentor Graphics, Mentor and Veloce are registered trademarks of
Mentor Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are
the registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective
owners.
For more information,
please contact:
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David
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Mentor
Graphics
503.685.1135
david_smith@mentor.com
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