ATI Selects Chip Emulation Tools Used by Rival NVIDIA
 

ATI Technologies, a leading developer of graphics chips and multimedia processors, recently said it was going to use the same design verification tools from Cadence as its arch-rival NVIDIA Corp. has used to emulate the GeForce 6800-series products during development process.

Cadence Incisive Palladium acceleration and emulation system to verify some of its highly complex designs. The Palladium accelerator/emulator, a key technology of the Incisive functional verification platform, provides the speed and efficiency that is critical for verification of advanced integrated circuits (ICs) that require high-performance processing and memory.

NVIDIA, using the Cadence Incisive Palladium acceleration/emulation system, significantly reduced its verification time for NVIDIA’s latest GeForce 6800 graphics processor, its most complex, highest-performance chip to date, Cadence said. NVIDIA reports that the verification time savings enabled by the Palladium system allowed it to meet the market window for its new product with increased confidence in hardware performance and software quality.

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