AUSTIN, Texas and PALO ALTO, Calif., April 15, 2003 – The RapidIO Trade Association and Denali Software, Inc., the leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (SIP) and electronic design automation (EDA) tools for chip interface design and verification, today announced that Denali has become a member of the RapidIO Trade Association and is taking an active role in the definition of the flow control specification. An internationally certified, open-standard that's available today, RapidIO is the embedded interconnect performance leader for next-generation communications and networking systems applications.
David Lin, vice president of business development, said: "Denali is the industry leader in design and verification solutions for complex chip interfaces. We're seeing great interest in RapidIO from our customers who depend on Denali software as they develop and verify advanced embedded systems designs. We look forward to leveraging our infrastructure and enabling RapidIO-based systems for our customers in the near future."
Steve Curtis, RapidIO steering committee representative from IBM Microelectronics and manager of embedded PowerPC standard products, adds: "Participants like Denali Software bring the necessary expertise in interface design and bus functional modeling to the RapidIO Trade Association. Their active involvement can help give designers and vendors further confidence in the system interoperability and growing pervasiveness of RapidIO-based embedded systems."
Sam Fuller, president of the RapidIO Trade Association, said: "Denali's membership demonstrates the momentum behind RapidIO. Our members are offering now the design tools, silicon, testing, and systems that are enabling profitable, early-to-market, performance-differentiated embedded systems."
The RapidIO parallel and serial interconnect architectures are open standards available for review and download from the RapidIO Trade Association's website www.rapidio.org. Also available at the website is information on system-enablement tools including RapidIO vendor product lists, synthesizable Verilog cores, analog physical layer cores, logic and protocol analyzers, operating system support, bus functional models, and hardware interoperability platforms.
About Denali Software
Denali Software Inc. is the world's leading provider of EDA tools and Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP) solutions for chip interface design, integration, and verification. PureSpec is the most robust verification solution for bus protocol interfaces. Denali's Databahn product provides designers with the highest quality solution for producing memory controller cores for all of the new and emerging DRAM memory technologies. Denali's MMAV product is the de facto industry standard for modeling and simulating memory during all phases of design and verification. Memory selection, memory controller configuration, and memory system performance analysis are supported through Denali's online infrastructure at eMemory.com. More than 500 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, please visit Denali at www.denali.com or contact Denali directly at: 650/461-7200.
About the RapidIO Trade Association:
The RapidIO Trade Association was formed in June 2000 to drive the adoption of open-standard, high-performance interconnect architectures needed for high-performance networking, communications and embedded systems. With more than 50 members worldwide, this non-profit organization is headquartered in Austin, Texas. Membership provides early access to the specifications, the ability to propose changes to the RapidIO standards, and the opportunity to actively participate in the adoption process. A complete list of member companies, as well as education and design tools, are available at the association's website www.RapidIO.org.
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