Silicon Interfaces Announces Bluetooth and USB 2.0 OpenVera Assertions-Based Verification Intellectual Property

Powerful Models for System-on-a-Chip Designs Significantly Reduce Verification Time

Silicon Interfaces, a high-end design services provider, today announced the availability of Bluetooth and USB 2.0 verification intellectual property (IP) offerings based on OpenVera(TM) Assertions (OVA). These easy-to-use OVA verification IP solutions significantly reduce the time necessary to create the verification infrastructure and automated testbench environment required for verifying complex Bluetooth and USB 2.0 design interfaces, and ensure thorough protocol checking. The Bluetooth and USB 2.0 verification IP increase the portfolio of Silicon Interfaces' OpenVera-based verification IP and are available through Silicon Cores, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Silicon Interfaces.

"With the increasing pressure of time-to-market deadlines and design cycle reductions, our customers can reap significant benefits, including greater productivity and reduced verification costs, by using OVA-based Bluetooth and USB checkers," said Kiran Patel, program manager of Silicon Cores' IP Development Program. "Our own productivity has more than doubled by using OVA instead of hardware description language (HDL)-based verification IP."

"Silicon Interfaces is focused on providing efficient, reusable and scalable verification IP for the rapidly growing OpenVera community," said Deepak Parikh, North America manager of operations at Silicon Interfaces. "We are now expanding our verification IP offerings to support OVA-based verification to address the needs of our growing global customer base for OVA verification IP."

"The OVA community is requesting OVA verification checkers and IP to jumpstart their verification environments," said James Watts, OpenVera program manager at Synopsys, Inc. "The OpenVera community welcomes the availability of Silicon Cores' OVA-based verification IP, marking growing support for the language."

Bluetooth 1.1 Checker Key Features:
*   Design based on the Bluetooth specification (Version 1.1)
*   Reusable IP blocks that implement all real-time Bluetooth protocol functions
*   Suitable for SoC verification.
*   Piconet/scatternet function with multi-slot packets.
*   Supports data channels.
*   Consideration of low power mode during early design cycle.
*   Time critical packet processing.
*   Authentication and hardware encryption along with cyclic redundancy check and forward error correction.

USB 2.0 Checker Key Features:
*   Robust protocol layer, which includes protocol engine used to control the flow of events.
*   Supports high speed devices.
*   Supports bulk, interrupt and isochronous type transfers.
*   Support for control transfers by endpoint zero.
*   Automatic data retry mechanism.
*   Highly intelligent remote wake-up function.
*   Integrated 4K bytes on chip-data buffer.
*   Backward compatibility.
*   Microcontroller interface.

For a complete listing of Bluetooth and USB 2.0 protocol checkers features and pricing, please contact info@siliconinterfaces.com or visit the Silicon Cores web site at http://www.siliconcores.com

Availability:
The Bluetooth and USB 2.0 OVA verification IP are available now and are compatible with simulators that support OVA. The Bluetooth and USB 2.0 OVA protocol checkers come with a complete documentation set illustrating usage and configuration.

About OpenVera and OpenVera Assertions:
OpenVera is an open source hardware verification language developed to meet the unique requirements of functional verification. OpenVera Assertions (OVA) is a high-level language that contains powerful declarative constructs for accurately capturing design specification and is useful in both dynamic and formal verification environments. With these languages, design and verification engineers describe the target application environment, including complex protocols and data objects, at a high level of abstraction, which significantly improves productivity, readability and reusability. For more information on OpenVera and OVA, visit www.open-vera.com.

About Silicon Interfaces:
Silicon Interfaces has experience in verification solutions and developing IP for Fabric Channel Interconnect, Telecom and Networking domains, including Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet, Firewire, Sonet, USB2, Infiniband, Rapid IO, WLAN and have a strong focused Roadmap to 10 Giga and SAN Controllers. Silicon Interfaces has been a provider of consulting services for ASIC/FPGA/SOC Verification and Designs using Verilog and VHDL, as well as services to support the EDA industries, for almost 10 years in Silicon Valley. The company has Design Centers in India with a complete high-end infrastructure for design services.

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