Mentor Graphics and Teledyne LeCroy Collaborate

Mentor Graphics Corporation, in system verification solutions, announced a collaboration with Teledyne LeCroy, in protocol test solutions, to deliver an emulation platform for the verification of SuperSpeed Universal Serial Bus (USB) protocol SoCs.

The combination of the Mentor Veloce2 hardware emulation technology and iSolve applications with Teledyne LeCroy’s Voyager M3i series SuperSpeed USB test solutions delivers a performance and productive environment for handling the verification of multiple SuperSpeed USB ports associated with most challenging SoC designs.

The goal of both companies is to help bring complex SuperSpeed USB-based SoC products to market on schedule, without compromising verification accuracy or performance.

SuperSpeed USB is a widely adopted standard for connecting a variety of consumer, networking, mobile devices and PC peripherals, and delivers a fast, low-cost, and hot-luggable serial interface to end users. This growing availability of SuperSpeed devices is increasing the amount of testing required by development teams.

"As a market leader in SuperSpeed USB test equipment, Teledyne LeCroy is committed to providing SoC designers with comprehensive tools to develop and verify their products," said Michael Romm, VPt of product development at Teledyne LeCroy’s Protocol Solutions Group. "Mentor’s Veloce2 family of advanced hardware-assisted verification solutions complements our Voyager M3i SuperSpeed USB test systems to deliver a state-of-the-art pre-silicon test solution for SuperSpeed USB host controllers, hub designs, and peripheral devices. One of our key customers, a world leader in networking, storage, and mobile computing systems, can now perform rigorous testing of their latest SoCs on this integrated, high-performance verification platform."

The Veloce2 emulator is a performance, dual-mode accelerator/emulator, delivering twice the performance and capacity of previous generations for both transaction-based verification and traditional in-circuit emulation (ICE). With an portfolio of iSolve vertical market solutions, the Veloce product is the platform for networking, wireless, multimedia, storage, and embedded systems applications.

"We have worked closely with Teledyne LeCroy over several years to produce market-leading USB solutions for emulation users, and the new Veloce-Voyager M3i SuperSpeed USB platform extends our ability to deliver the industry’s premier emulation solutions for USB applications," said Eric Selosse, Mentor Emulation Division (MED) VP and GM. "Our combined industry-leading technologies deliver reliable and easy-to-use SuperSpeed USB verification solutions that help customers to innovate and meet their time-to-market pressures for their SoC designs. By teaming with Teledyne LeCroy, we continue to improve our USB customer solutions for use with Veloce."