M31 Technology Adopts Cadence Verification IP to Achieve 2.5X Faster Verification

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 04, 2015 – 

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), today announced that M31 Technology Corporation, a professional silicon intellectual property (IP) provider has utilized Cadence's Verification IP (VIP) products to speed up verification by 2.5X compared to manual testbench results, raise designers' productivity and ensure better verification quality.

To learn more about Cadence® VIP products, please go to http://www.cadence.com/news/vip.

M31 Technology adopted Cadence's VIP for PCI Express® (PCIe®) 2.0 along with the TripleCheck™ option to realize faster verification closure and comprehensive specification coverage. The VIP models interfaces such as DDR, MIPI, USB, SATA and PCIe as components that can be plugged into a system-on-chip (SoC) testbench and simulated along with the chip. Cadence's TripleCheck IP Validator includes a test suite, coverage model and verification plan (vPlan) that simplifies pre-silicon compliance verification.

"As an IP provider, M31 Technology aims to provide customers with high-quality silicon IP services and help them reduce their time to market," said Hsiao-Ping Lin, Chairman and CEO of M31 Technology Corporation. "Using Cadence VIP and TripleCheck solutions dramatically shortens the time that designers require to write a testbench. Most importantly, designers without verification experience can also easily perform verification tasks and achieve excellent coverage."

Cadence is the industry VIP leader with products supporting more than 40 communication protocols and 60 memory interfaces. Cadence VIP fits into nearly every verification environment with support for all major simulators and verification languages.

About Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

Cadence Design Systems is a leading global EDA company. Cadence customers use our software, hardware, and services to overcome a range of technical and economic hurdles.

Our technologies help customers create mobile devices with longer battery life. Designers of ICs for game consoles and other consumer electronics speed their products to market using our hardware simulators to run software on a virtual chip long before the actual chip exists. We bridge the traditional gap between chip designers and fabrication facilities, so that manufacturing challenges can be addressed early in the design stage. And our custom IC design platform enables designers to harmonize the divergent worlds of analog and digital design to create some of the most advanced mixed-signal system on chip (SoC) designs. These are just a few of the many essential Cadence solutions that drive the success of leading IC and electronic systems companies.

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