EVE Unleashes Next-Generation Hardware Accelerator Designed for Ease of Use, Offering Close to Unlimited Capacity

ZeBu-AX First Product Delivered Under EVE Umbrella

San Jose, Calif., and Palaiseau, France –– April 24, 2007 –– EVE, supplier of the broadest selection of hardware-assisted verification solutions including acceleration, fast emulation and prototyping, today unveiled ZeBu-AX, the next-generation hardware accelerator, designed for ease of use and offering close to unlimited capacity.

ZeBu-AX has become part of EVE’s family of hardware-assisted verification solutions through EVE’s recent acquisition of Tharas Systems Inc. (see January 3, 2007 news release). A full product roadmap with details about its family of accelerators to fast emulators and prototyping solutions will be unveiled in June 2007.

“ZeBu-AX is the first collaboration with our combined development team and it’s a momentous achievement,” says Dr. Luc Burgun, EVE’s Chief Executive Officer and President. “Research has shown that hardware acceleration continues to be an essential component of a design flow. ZeBu-AX’s flexibility, capacity and ease of use will ensure that it becomes the de facto standard in hardware acceleration.”

ZeBu-AX offers plug-and-play, event-accurate mixed-language simulation acceleration. A scalable capacity lets ZeBu-AX handle designs that can reach up to 512-million application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) gates.

Its one-pass compilation executes at a speed of 125-million ASIC gates per hours on a single workstation, mapping onto the accelerator not only the design-under-test but also a significant portion of the behavioural testbench.

The process is fully automatic and does not require user intervention.

Its single-kernel runtime environment works in co-simulation with Synopsys VCS®, Mentor Graphics QuestaSim®, Cadence NC-Sim®. It accelerates simulation from 10 to 1,000 times faster than any hardware description language (HDL) simulator. ZeBu-AX can manage especially large designs typical of graphics and processors designs that most HDL simulators cannot support.

Pricing and Availability

ZeBu-AX supports RedHat and Suse Linux platforms. Pricing starts at $100,000.

More details about ZeBu-AX can be found at the EVE website located at www.eve-team.com

About EVE

EVE offers the broadest selection of hardware-assisted verification solutions on the market, from acceleration to fast emulation and prototyping with the most cycles per dollar.
EVE reduces the overall verification cycle of complex integrated circuits and electronic systems design. Its products also work in conjunction with popular Verilog and VHDL-based software simulators from Synopsys, Cadence Design Systems and Mentor Graphics.