Denali Announces PureSpec Verification IP Product for USB Interfaces

Denali's PureSpec Now Supports USB 2.0 and USB OTG

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 12, 2005 -- Denali today announced that its PureSpec™ verification intellectual property (VIP) product is now available for the verification of USB designs.

PureSpec now provides both design and verification engineers with a high-quality solution for modeling, simulating, and verifying designs that utilize the latest USB 2.0 and USB OTG (On-The-Go) interfaces.

"Our customers demand high-quality verification IP for all of their standard interfaces, and that is what we are delivering," says Vic Juneja, Denali's product marketing manager. "Whether it's PCI Express, DDR, Flash or USB, our customers count on PureSpec as the most complete, high-quality verification solution for their designs. Seamless integration to all the latest testbench tools and languages ensures out-of-the box productivity, and when the pressure is on, they know that our world-class engineering and support staff is committed to their success."

"As a leading provider of reusable IP cores for standard interfaces, we have very high demands in terms of quality of the verification solutions we use," adds A. K. Ganesan, president of Arasan Chip Systems. "Denali has earned the reputation for providing the highest quality verification IP in the industry. We have developed a very sophisticated verification environment for our products, and PureSpec plays a critical role in the functional verification of our USB designs."

About PureSpec -USB
PureSpec-USB is a complete verification IP solution for verifying compliance and compatibility of USB designs. PureSpec-USB verification IP includes a configurable bus functional model (BFM) that models the USB 2.0 and USB OTG specifications, and all interfaces such as DpDm, UTMI+ and ULPI. It also provides a sophisticated data generation engine to help drive defined, pseudo-random bus traffic at all layers. Injected errors and error conditions are flagged and recovered according to USB specifications.

The highly integrated nature of PureSpec-USB model enables direct translation from test plan definition to implementation, greatly accelerating the verification task and verification engineers overall verification productivity. A cumulative coverage database capability ensures that the overall test plan sufficiently exercises the design under test.

About PureSpec
PureSpec verification IP supports a number of standard interfaces, including: PCI Express (PCIe), Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI), USB, Ethernet, and Serial ATA (SATA). The PureSpec product is architected to ensure high-quality, high-performance, and seamless integration to all EDA testbench tools and languages. PureSpec is available now for customer evaluation at: http://www.denali.com/purespec.

About Denali
Denali Software Inc. is the world's leading provider of EDA tools and Intellectual Property (IP) solutions for chip interface design, integration and verification. Its Databahn™ Design IP products offer fully configurable design cores for complex interfaces such as Serial ATA and DDR-based memory systems. Denali's PureSpec™ Verification IP product supports all complex interfaces, including PCI Express, Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI), USB, Ethernet and Serial ATA. More than 400 companies worldwide use Denali's tools, technology, and services to design and verify complex chip interfaces for communication, consumer, and computer products. For more information, visit Denali at http://www.denali.com. Telephone: (650) 461-7200.

The Denali logo, Denali, and Databahn, PureSpec, MMAV and SOMA are trademarks of Denali Software Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.