Collaboration accelerates chip verification

As a result, networking customers have the ability to seamlessly integrate an Ixia virtual environment into an emulation-based verification flow, bringing the powerful advantages of emulation to the lab environment. This allows the reuse of traffic flow generation scripts for greater efficiency and improved debug, and gives customers the ability to de-risk the challenges of complex chip designs.

The resulting new Mentor product, the Veloce Virtual Network (VN) App, was driven by the Veloce team based on the requests and support of mutual customers. The development work needed to complete the Veloce VN App was accomplished through the cooperation of the R&D organisations at both Mentor and Ixia.

“Emulation provides a huge performance advantage for full chip verification,” said, Scott Westlake, Vice President Business Development, Ixia. “It is natural for Mentor and Ixia to collaborate and drive a ‘shift left’ that expands the use of virtualised testing to accelerate the delivery of networking chips to market.”

Many networking customers who use the Veloce emulation platform asked for a tighter integration with Ixia’s IxNetwork VE, as both are critical for new product delivery. The Veloce VN App creates a highly optimised flow from simulation to the lab for greater efficiency and improved debug. A working prototype of the integration is available for demonstration to mutual customers in the Mentor emulation lab in Fremont California.

“Our leadership and market share in networking continues to grow rapidly,” said Eric Selosse, Vice President and General Manager of the Mentor Emulation Division. “The Veloce VN App, created in close collaboration with the excellent team at Ixia, is an example of Mentor setting the stage for Veloce Networking 2.0.”