Mentor Graphics Corp., Wilsonville, Ore., announces that its Veloce emulation platform, specifically the Codelink offering, now supports the debug of designs built with AndesCore processors such as N10 and N13. Andes Technology is a leading Asia-based supplier of small, low-power, high-performance 32-bit embedded CPU cores. Over 600 million systems-on-chip (SoCs) containing its CPU cores have been shipped by Andes customers.
With Codelink support, developers using the AndesCore processors can complete designs months sooner by moving critical software tasks to the pre-silicon stage. The Codelink tool allows a software developer to have a traditional software debug procedure when running software on a design with the Veloce platform. Unlike traditional software debug methods on emulation, which tend to be too slow for most software developers, the Codelink offering delivers the performance demanded by advanced software teams.
The Codelink solution captures the software verification results from the emulator, then shifts the debug to a workstation so that many developers can debug at the same time. Moving the debug task offline marks an important methodology shift for software verification. Because the Codelink tool is non-intrusive, it enables detailed performance and power analysis not possible with other debug methods.
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