ARM Adds Cyclical Simulation to Design Tools

Electronic News,  March 12, 2001  

Tags: ARM, marketing, microprocessor, tool

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ARM LTD. OF CAMBRIDGE, England, and AXYS Design Automation Inc. of Herzogenrath, Germany, are collaborating on the development of embedded processor design tools. AXYS' cycle-accurate simulation and verification tools will support versions of both the ARM7 and ARM9 family of microprocessor cores. Cycle-accurate modeling simulates processor cycles and replicates real-world usage of the microprocessor in-situ, the company said. The idea is to allow designers to simulate ARM and DSP models, while also providing an interface to common hardware simulators such as Verilog XL, Model Sim and IKOS Voyager.

"Developers wishing to simulate complex systems will benefit from the technology that this partnership brings. Using the ARM models and AXYS supplied models, customers will be able to utilize unique functionality and speed-up the development process," said Tim Hopes, modeling engineering manager at ARM. The collaboration is part of the ARM EDA Partnership Program; other members include Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, Cadence, Innoveda, CoWare, Virtio and IKOS.

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