Mentor Graphics pushed new Solutions for the Verification of USB SuperSpeed （3.0） Products

Published:2012/5/8 21:34:00 Author:Ecco From:SeekIC

Mentor Graphics Corp., a leader in high-performance system verification solutions, pushed hardware and software solutions to improve the verification of Universal Serial Bus (USB) SuperSpeed (3.0) products. These new solutions are connected to a Veloce® emulator to allow designers to test their USB SuperSpeed peripheral devices integrated on their System-on-Chip (SoC) designs. The solutions also enable designers to develop and test their software drivers and firmware prior to silicon being available.

USB is a pervasive technology to be used in a wide range of products. With the ever increasing demands for system-level verification of such products, the SoC designers need to verify how their USB SuperSpeed devices interact with the software and hardware in their SOCs.

Complementing the iSolve solution is a new Veloce USB 3.0 Host Transactor, which delivers an accelerated simulation environment for the verification of USB SuperSpeed (3.0)-compliant devices. It generates the appropriate stimuli for the DUT, passing packets (or transactions) of protocol data for tests. The transactor also provides high-level Application Programming Interface (API) and example tests to model a test environment that can exercise the emulated USB SuperSpeed (3.0) device.

The first of two new products is the iSolveTM USB SuperSpeed (3.0) Host Controller, which has a ‘plug-and-play’ hardware interface to the Veloce family of hardware emulators. This new solution adds to the existing iSolve family of solutions for the accelerated verification of applications such as multimedia, embedded systems, wireless, networking and storage devices. The solution provides a cost-effective and efficient way to verify USB SuperSpeed peripherals that are part of a SoC design.

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