News Release

EVE Unleashes Next-Generation Hardware Accelerator Designed for Ease of Use, Offering Close to Unlimited Capacity

ZeBu-AX First Product Delivered Under EVE Umbrella

EVE, supplier of the broadest selection of hardware-assisted verification solutions including acceleration, fast emulation and prototyping, today unveiled ZeBu-AX, the next-generation hardware accelerator, designed for ease of use and offering close to unlimited capacity.

ZeBu-AX has become part of EVE's family of hardware-assisted verification solutions through EVE's recent acquisition of Tharas Systems Inc. (see January 3, 2007 news release). A full product roadmap with details about its family of accelerators to fast emulators and prototyping solutions will be unveiled in June 2007.

EVE will demonstrate its entire ZeBu -- for Zero Bugs -- product family in Stand M37 during Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE) 07 this week at the Nice Acropolis in Nice, France.

"ZeBu-AX is the first collaboration with our combined development team and it's a momentous achievement," says Dr. Luc Burgun, EVE's chief executive officer and president. "Research has shown that hardware acceleration continues to be an essential component of a design flow. ZeBu-AX's flexibility, capacity and ease of use will ensure that it becomes the de facto standard in hardware acceleration."

ZeBu-AX offers plug-and-play, event-accurate mixed-language simulation acceleration. A scalable capacity lets ZeBu-AX handle designs that can reach up to 512-million application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) gates. Its one-pass compilation executes at a speed of 125-million ASIC gates per hours on a single workstation, mapping onto the accelerator not only the design-under-test but also a significant portion of the behavioural testbench. The process is fully automatic and does not require user intervention.

Its single-kernel runtime environment works in co-simulation with Synopsys VCS®, Mentor Graphics QuestaSim®, Cadence NC-Sim®. It accelerates simulation from 10 to 1,000 times faster than any hardware description language (HDL) simulator. ZeBu-AX can manage especially large designs typical of graphics and processors designs that most HDL simulators cannot support.

Pricing and Availability

ZeBu-AX supports RedHat and Suse Linux platforms. Pricing starts at $100,000. For more information, contact Lauro Rizzatti, general manager of EVE USA. He can be reached at (408) 881-0440 or via email at lauro@eve-usa.com.