Celoxica announces global distribution agreement with XJTAG

Reseller agreement augments prototyping and verification capabilities for users of Celoxica system-level design tools and development platforms

Paris, France (PRWEB) February 18, 2004 --Celoxica Limited (www.celoxica.com), a system-level electronic design automation (EDA) company, has signed a global distribution agreement with XJTAG Limited (www.xjtag.com), a specialist design and test tool developer and part of the Cambridge Technology Group, to resell its highly acclaimed XJTAG Development System.

The powerful and easy-to-use XJTAG Development System, launched in 2003, is designed to cut the cost and shorten the development cycle of electronic products and provides a unique solution that can test JTAG as well as non-JTAG devices. XJTAG is priced extremely competitively to encourage multiple sales per company.

The announcement was made at the Electronics Systems Design Conference, DATE04, being held in Paris at CNIT, Paris La Defense from 16-20 February. Commenting on the agreement, Simon Payne, chief executive of XJTAG, said: This is an important deal for XJTAG as Celoxicas customer base is truly global and includes design and development engineers in major defence and electronics OEMs across the Americas, Europe and Asia."

Phil Bishop, chief executive officer of Celoxica, said: We strive to maintain our reputation as the best design partner to industry leading companies and believe that the XJTAG system complements our own design tools and methodology and will further accelerate design productivity for our customers."

The XJTAG Development System provides a fully integrated environment, which can migrate seamlessly through the product life cycle from early design to field support and repair. XJTAG enables circuit designers to shorten the development cycle and prototyping process by facilitating early test development, early design validation of CAD netlists, fast generation of highly functional test and test re-use across circuits that utilise the same devices. XJTAG test scripts are also re-usable and portable across different boards dues to the novel device-centric approach that the designers have adopted.

XJTAG can test a high proportion of a circuit including BGA and chip scale devices, SDRAMs, Ethernet controllers, video interfaces, flash memories, FPGAs, microprocessors and many other devices. XJTAG also enables In-System Programming of FPGAs, CPLDs and flash memories.

Celoxicas customers can utilise XJTAG to support their product development activities in conjunction with the DK Design Suite and can also use it to interact with Celoxicas board products such as the RC200 and RC2000 so as to create a comprehensive prototyping and test environment.

XJTAG is a very powerful and highly intuitive system which we believe will be attractive to any company designing and building circuits, particularly those using BGAs and flip chips," said Graham McKenzie, product marketing manager at Celoxica. The XJTAG system fits well with our own design tools and complements the other third party solutions we provide."

For more information about the XJTAG Development System, please contact Celoxica, XJTAG Limited or visit www.xjtag.com.

About Celoxica
An innovator in system-level electronic design automation (EDA), Celoxica supplies the design technology, IP and services that define Software-Compiled System Design, a methodology that exploits higher levels of design abstraction to dramatically improve silicon design productivity. Celoxicas products address hardware/software partitioning, co-verification and C-based synthesis to reconfigurable hardware. Established in 1996, Celoxica offers a proven route from complex software algorithms to hardware, and provides an ideal design environment for System FPGA with significant productivity advantages for digital signal processing applications such as imaging, electronic security and communications. For more information, visit: www.celoxica.com.

About XJTAG
XJTAG Limited is a specialist design and test tool developer. Its JTAG (Joint Test Action Group) development system offers a competitive solution for designers and developers of electronic circuits. Utilising XJTAG allows the circuit development and prototyping process to be shortened significantly by facilitating early test development, early design validation, fast development of functional tests and test re-use across circuits that utilise the same devices. The company is based in the UK at The Irwin Centre, Dry Drayton, Cambridge.

About the Cambridge Technology Group (www.cambridgetechgroup.com)
Cambridge Technology Group is a holding company with three wholly owned subsidiaries -- Adiabatic Logic Limited, Cambridge Technology Consultants Limited and XJTAG Limited. Adiabatic Logic (www.adiabaticlogic.com) was set up to exploit a portfolio of secured patents in the low power technology arena. Adiabatic Logics patented Intelligent Output Drive (IOD), launched in May 2003, delivers significant (up to 75%) power savings in chip I/O for portable devices such as laptop computers, personal digital assistants (PDAs), and MP3 players and smartphones.

Cambridge Technology Consultants (www.camtechconsultants.com) offers its clients -- companies such as ARM, AT&T, BOC Edwards, Celoxica, Co-operative Group, Fujitsu, Marconi, Mitsubishi Electric and IPWireless -- a broad range of services from high-end applications to innovative product development and technical consultancy skills. For ten years, its multi-disciplinary team of hardware and software engineers have provided costs effective solutions from concept through to pre-production.

What is JTAG?
Advances in silicon design, such as increasing device density and, more recently, ball grid arry (BGA) and chip scale packaging, have reduced the efficacy of traditional electronic circuit testing methods. In order to overcome these problems and others; some of the worlds leading silicon manufacturers combined to form the Joint Test Action Group (JTAG). The findings of this group were used as the basis for the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) standard 1149.1: Standard Test Access Port and Boundary Scan Architecture and subsequently the standard became known as JTAG.

Celoxica and the Celoxica logo are trademarks of Celoxica, Ltd. All other brand names and product names are the property of their respective owners

Note to Editors:
For reader enquiries please contact: Jeff Jussel, vice president of marketing, Celoxica Limited, 66 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4RX, United Kingdom, telephone +44 (0) 1235 863656, fax +44 (0) 1235 863648.

For more information about Celoxica, visit www.celoxica.com. For sales enquiries contact: Americas -- sales.americas@celoxica.com; APAC -- sales.apac@celoxica.com; Europe, Middle East, Africa -- sales.emea@celoxica.com.

For more information, contact:
Jeff Jussel, Celoxica Ltd., +1 408 626 9070, jeff.jussel@celoxica.com

Allan Edwards, Neesham PR, +44 1442 879222, allane@neesham.co.uk (PR for Celoxica)

Martin Brooke, Martin Brooke Associates, +44 1223 264050, martin.brooke@mba-pr.com (PR for XJTAG)
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