Cadence CADENCE PALLADIUM XP - TECH BRIEF Manual

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    T e c h n ic a l b r ie f cadence ® palladium ® xp is a state-of-the-art hardware/software verification computing platform. It unifies best-in-class simulation acceleration and emulation capabilities in a single environment to boost verification throughput and productivity. Its processor-based compu...

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    2 www.Cadence.Com palladium xp verification computing platform as shown in figure 2, today’s soc designs contain one or more micro-processors (up), various types of memories, internal and external encrypted ip, industry-standard i/os, embedded software, operating systems, drivers, and software appli...

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    3 www.Cadence.Com palladium xp verification computing platform palladium xp offers enhancements above and beyond what traditional acceleration and emulation use models offer. Palladium xp introduces new use models to improve verification productivity through metric-driven verification acceleration, ...

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    4 www.Cadence.Com palladium xp verification computing platform •better design bring-up predictability – enables quick bring-up with its fast, automated, intelligent compiler that includes a rich set of behavior construct support and congruent (match) behavior between simulation and hardware – boosts...

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    5 www.Cadence.Com palladium xp verification computing platform an ideal platform must also be able to leverage system behavior during emulation or acceleration to ensure models can be swapped in and out. To achieve these objectives, the platform must: (a) link to and co-execute with a high-performan...

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    6 www.Cadence.Com palladium xp verification computing platform flexible runtime environment the palladium xp platform utilizes a high-performance runtime engine to enable acceleration of designs up to 4mhz. With its flexible unified xcellerator emulator (uxe) software, palladium xp offers tighter in...

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    7 www.Cadence.Com palladium xp verification computing platform by linking to various third-party software debuggers, palladium xp allows hot-swap to software simulation and interactive debug such as setting breakpoints or single stepping when running system applications. Palladium systems have alrea...

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    8 www.Cadence.Com palladium xp verification computing platform palladium xp verification computing platform usb device fibre channel multi- ethernet usb host pci express video/ audio pci/pci-x sas multi-i/o wireless sata interface to third- party ip and testers figure 8: for most industry-standard p...

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    9 www.Cadence.Com palladium xp verification computing platform hybrid environment a hybrid of hardware and software verification ip (vip) models can be used for increased predictability and productivity earlier in the design cycle. To complement tba mode and further reduce design schedules, cadence ...

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    10 www.Cadence.Com palladium xp verification computing platform to simplify the adoption of metric-driven verification acceleration, palladium xp also leverages the cadence vip portfolio. Execute measure and analyze construct plan vplan metric definitions coverage checks assertions reuse signoff? Do...

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    11 www.Cadence.Com palladium xp verification computing platform time soc power analysis requires “deep” cycles (@100mhz for 5 seconds => 500 million cycles) po w er simulation system level emulation deep cycles: power profiling calculates average power overlong run with “real” stimulus and sw intera...

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    12 www.Cadence.Com palladium xp verification computing platform level. Users can set up trigger conditions for power on/off and can use force operations to create low-power scenarios just as they would use them for functional verification during normal acceleration/ emulation runs. Palladium xp read...

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    13 www.Cadence.Com palladium xp verification computing platform palladium xp (xl) palladium xp (gxl) hw/sw interfaces, connecting to third-party tools/ip/environment •various standards: sce-mi 1.1/2.0 and tlm support •most comprehensive speedbridge portfolio for standard protocols supporting most ma...

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