ChipBank adopts Cadence Incisive Xtreme II

ChipBank uses Cadence Incisive Xtreme III system to improve SoC verification effectiveness

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., a global leader in electronic design innovation, today announced that Shenzhen, China-based ChipBang Technology Co., Ltd., a leading fabless integrated circuit design company, has adopted the Cadence Incisive Xtreme III system to accelerate its RTL design flow and provide a verification flow for next-generation digital consumer and networking chips.

ChipBang is a leading chip supplier whose chips target applications such as digital audio and video processing, mobile storage, network communications and consumer electronics. The deployment of the Cadence Incisive Xtreme III system and Incisive Enterprise Simulator enables ChipBang engineers to accelerate their register-transfer level (RTL) full-chip SoC verification by up to 500 times.

"We have seen significant improvements since adopting Cadence Xtreme III, which can accelerate verification time by more than 500 times," said Zhang Hualong, president of Xinbang. "We are also surprised by its ease of use and debugging capabilities, which can help us significantly shorten the verification cycle of chips to meet the demanding consumer electronics market. We look forward to continuing to work with Cadence on future 65nm implementation and design services projects."

The Cadence Incisive Xtreme series of high-performance, high-capacity accelerators/emulators accelerates functional verification of designs at the behavioral, RTL and gate levels. Designed for multi-user, multi-site, multi-purpose systems, the Xtreme series can be combined with the Incisive simulation environment to perform advanced verification planning and promote coverage-based, indicator-oriented verification closure. It also has advanced debugging capabilities and makes it easier to adopt instant "hot swapping" between simulation, acceleration and simulation.

"Xinbang's experience with Xtreme III is an excellent example of how Cadence hardware-based solutions can significantly reduce development cycles in today's highly competitive consumer electronics market," said Guojun Liu, general manager of Cadence China and Hong Kong. "We are honored to see customers like Xinbang gain a competitive advantage by using our industry-leading technology solutions."