Cadence launches library vendor program to advance COTS design

Cadence launches library vendor program to advance COTS design
By Michael Santarini, EE Times
November 22, 1999 (9:52 a.m. EST)
URL: http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG19991122S0006

Cadence Design Systems Inc. says that its new AlanzaSM Library Vendor Program is designed to forge a tighter working relationship with commercial library vendors to benefit customers by delivering a cohesive, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) design methodology. The related Alanza Foundry Program represents an effort to ensure greater unity among all the players in the COTS market, according to Cadence (San Jose, Calif.).

Members of the library vendor program will work with Cadence to support current and future COT design methodologies and create libraries tailored for Cadence tools and design flows. Charter members include Artisan Components, Aspec Technology, Leda Systems, NurLogic Design, Virage Logic and Virtual Silicon Technology.

Each member has access to the entire Cadence SLC (system-level constraint) tool set, which includes the Envisia place-and-route tool, Envisia synthesis tool, Affirma timing analyzer and Affirma Verilog simul ator. Cadence, in turn, gets access to members' libraries for demonstration, training and product validation purposes. The libraries are also available to the Cadence services organization for use in work with mutual customers.

Cadence said it has selected Artisan Components as the program's first platinum member in recognition of Artisan's status as the leading provider of third-party libraries.

The mission of the Foundry Program is to implement synergistic business models with top-tier silicon foundries to better leverage the foundries' manufacturing capabilities with Cadence design technology. The program also provides an opportunity for members to influence Cadence technology and strategies by participating in selected engineering development projects.

For more information visit www.cadence.com.

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Xilinx Inc. (San Jose) has announced availability of a 32-channel inverse multiplexer ATM core for its new Virtex-E FPGAs. The core comes from Applied Telecom, newest member of the Xilinx Alliance Core program.

Developed, sold and supported by Applied Telecom, the IMA32 core targets such network access systems as adapters, multiplexers and switches. According to the companies, several leading manufacturers, including Alcatel, Ericsson, Nokia and Nortel, already are using Applied Telecom's Xilinx-based IMA technology in production systems today.

The IMA32 core is implemented in a BG432 package for the Virtex-E FPGAs and in a BG352 package for Xilinx XC4000XLA devices. The core also incorporates a microprocessor interface for standard Intel and Motorola microprocessors. Pairing the core with the DRV-IMA software package, also available from Applied Telecom, is said to yield an IMA-compliant subsystem.

The IMA32 core is available immediately for Virtex-E and XC4000XLA FPGAs. An evaluation board and the DRV-IMA software are also currently available.

Visit www.xi linx.com/ipcenter or www.apptel.com.