Mentor Graphics Hardware-assisted Solution Accelerates Verification of USB 2.0 Products

Mentor Graphics Corp. has launched a hardware-assisted solution to accelerate the verification of Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 products, including hard disk drives and other mass storage devices. This new solution enables designers to test the System-on-Chip (SoC) design that controls a hard disk drive or similar mass storage device, by providing an accurate, hardware-based model of the real disk drive connected to their SoC.

This iSolve USB Peripheral product has a ‘plug-and-play’ interface to the Veloce family of hardware-assisted emulators, providing a cost-effective and efficient solution to verify USB designs. The new product adds to the existing iSolve family of solutions for the accelerated verification of applications such as multimedia, networking, embedded systems, wireless, and storage devices.

USB is a pervasive technology across a wide range of products, with billions of devices having been created that use the protocol. With the ever-increasing demand for system-level verification of such products, a heavy burden is placed on SoC designers who need to verify how their designs interact with the USB devices connected to them.

Combined with the Veloce emulation family, the iSolve USB Peripheral product delivers a high-performance and easy-to-use system verification environment to develop new SoCs containing a USB host controller, without compromising delivery schedules. The iSolve USB Peripheral solution can be used with traditional in-circuit emulation (ICE) as well as a high-performance, transaction-based acceleration mode of operation. The ability to mix and match traditional ICE capabilities with high-performance transaction-based acceleration facilitates the smooth transition from a simulation-centric use model to in-circuit emulation.

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