Denali's Technology Linked with Cadence Simulators

Electronic News, June 7, 1999

Cadence Design Systems also recently said it will integrate Denali Software Inc.'s Memory Modeler and Graphical Memory Debugger with the Cadence Affirma family of hardware description language logic simulators. This integration will allow mutual customers to rapidly generate customized memory models increasing functional simulation performance of system-on-a-chip (SOC) designs, the companies said.

The IEEE 1499 Open Model Interface (OMI) was chosen to link the Memory Modeler to the Cadence simulation products because of its flexibility and extensibility. OMI allows model sharing at any level of abstraction and any OMI compliant model can be executed on any OMI-compliant simulator regardless of the language the model is written in. The Cadence Affirma simulators have supported OMI-based integration within the Cadence design environment and for third-party tools since June 1997.