BusinessWire
July 17, 2006 08:01 AM US Pacific Timezone

ProDesign Adds Iridium Edition to CHIPit ASIC Prototyping Product Family

MUNICH, Germany & SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 17, 2006--ProDesign, leading supplier of high-speed ASIC and SoC verification platforms, will announce the launch of the CHIPit Iridium Edition at DAC 2006 (San Francisco, 24-28 July).

The CHIPit Iridium Edition gives ASIC & SoC design engineers unprecedented speed and flexibility to verify and debug their designs. This very cost-effective solution for all stages of hardware-assisted verification shortens the time to market by eliminating costly respins and by providing an early prototype for the software development.

"With the Iridium Edition, we created a very handy prototyping system for ASIC and IP designers of medium design sizes that provides extensive design debugging capabilities and an easy to use verification system. It combines our patented technologies and other proven functionalities from it's 'big brother', the successful CHIPit Platinum Edition for multi-million ASIC gate designs," said Heiko Mauersberger, CTO of ProDesign.

The highlight of the new system is its maximum flexibility. It can be scaled from 1 up to 6 FPGAs Xilinx Virtex-4 FPGAs (XC4VLX100/160/200) and handles ASIC design capacities from 1 to 6 million ASIC gates. ProDesign's patented 3D Switching Technology offers highest interconnection flexibility between all FPGAs and allows to adjust the connection architecture to the design in the best way, to achieve a maximum system speed performance up to 200 MHz.

Furthermore, designers can use up to 2580 free user I/Os on 8 different extension board sites to connect standard ProDesign extension boards like external memories, Ethernet interface, PCI-Express interface or customer specific extension boards to test their designs in a real-world environment.

"Our worldwide customer base asked for an ASIC prototyping system for small to medium ASIC design sizes with more performance, flexibility and debugging capabilities. CHIPit Iridium Edition combines the features of CHIPit Platinum with a completely new system architecture at a very attractive price. This extends our product family, and we are now able to serve a greater range of customers requiring high-end ASIC prototyping," added Gunnar Scholl, ProDesign's Director of Marketing and Business Development.

About ProDesign

The privately held company has over 80 employees and facilities in Germany, France and the U.S. The company's products and services include the CHIPit family of High-Speed ASIC Prototyping Systems to validate algorithm performance, verify hardware implementation, and assist in hardware/software co-development and co-verification to reduce the verification time dramatically. http://www.uchipit.com