WILSONVILLE, Ore., Jan. 14, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Mentor Graphics
Corp. (Nasdaq: MENT) today announced that EDN has named the Veloce®
Power application as one of the "100 Hot Products of 2015." The
2015 EDN Hot 100 highlights the electronics industry's most
significant products of the year based on innovation, significance,
usefulness and popularity.
Power is a primary concern for mobile and smart devices that
require long battery life, as well as for wall-plugged equipment in
data centers. To assess power consumption most accurately,
verification engineers use emulation to boot the system OS and run
application software on their designs. When designs with
significant software content are run on an emulator, the current
method of generating power activity data creates files that are too
large for power analysis tools to handle practically.
Running on the Veloce emulation platform, the Veloce Power
application replaces this time-consuming, file-based flow with an
application programming interface (API) integration. This dynamic
read waveform API approach captures the information in the power
switching activity plot and transfers that data to power analysis
tools. As a result, verification teams experience a significant
reduction in runtime and substantial boost in productivity in this
flow. That's how the Veloce Power application enables accurate
power calculation at the system level, better power RTL-level
exploration for power budgeting and trade-offs as well as more
accurate power analysis and sign-off at the gate level.
"Our emulation team recognized an important methodology shift in
the way power data should be captured and analysed. The result was
Veloce Power application, which redefined the power analysis flow,"
said Eric Selosse, vice president
and general manager of the Mentor Emulation Division. "It's just
one example of how the Veloce emulation platform delivers technical
leadership in hardware emulation. We are honoured to be recognized
by EDN as one of the 100 Hot Products of 2015."
"Of the many thousands of products announced during the past
year, the EDN Hot 100 are the products that especially caught the
attention of our editors and readers. We are pleased to share this
annual tradition of showcasing these standout technologies as we
celebrate another stellar year of electronics innovation," said
Suzanne Deffree, Executive Editor,
EDN.
EDN published a review of the Veloce Power Application in the
article Pushing emulation beyond functional tests. The
complete list of EDN's Hot 100 products can be found here.
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, emulation is used by project teams 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. World Wide Web site:
http://www.mentor.com/.
For more information on Mentor Graphics please
contact:
David Smith,
Director, Mentor EDA
503.685.1135, david_smith@mentor.com
Mentor Graphics, Mentor and Veloce are registered trademarks,
and Enterprise Verification Platform is a trademark, of Mentor
Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the
registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners.
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