Sun Microsystems and Axis Systems, a new EDA company addressing the verification market, have announced that Axis has selected Sun`s Ultra PCI bus-based workstations running the Solaris operating environment as its exclusive workstation platform. Later this year, Axis plans to introduce design verification products based on its ReConfigurable Computing (RCC) technology, which accelerates design verification by orders of magnitude over conventional software simulators. "Design verification usually consumes 70% or more of the CPU cycles expended in bringing a product to market," said Peter Denyer, manager of EDA market development at Sun. "Axis Systems products will significantly reduce the time expended in simulation, allowing engineers to fully verify their product while reducing time to market. Axis ReConfigurable Computing technology running on Sun`s Ultra workstations is a powerful technology for addressing the simulation challenges in today`s complex system-on-a-chip designs." "Sun`s dominant EDA market share, coupled with the excellent price/performance of the new PCI-bus based workstations make Sun the obvious platform of choice for Axis Systems RCC technology," said Steven Wang, vice president of marketing at Axis Systems. "We`ve chosen to go with Sun for the first implementation of our system because their system architecture and operating environment are designed to handle our extensive performance demands. We started doing an NT implementation early on, but discovered that, at least for now, it may not be a suitable environment for running complex simulations." The Axis product incorporates verification software and ReConfigurable Computing (RCC) hardware to improve simulation and verification throughput for 1 million gate plus designs. The new methodology promises designers improved simulation performance and offers debugging options not found with any current verification technology. For compactness and high performance operation, RCC resides within Sun Microsystems workstations with direct connection to the PCI backplane.
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