ST uses EVE's ZeBu emulator

The licensing agreement, ST specified, includes EVE's catalog of ZeBu transactors and memory models, for use in the development of 3D graphics and advanced video codec technologies.

“After an extensive evaluation of the ZeBu-Personal emulation platform, we were able to attain a speed in excess of 10MHz in transaction-based emulation,” commented Laurent Ducousso, verification manager, Home Video Division, STMicroelectronics. “In fact, ZeBu is fast enough to run application-level software — and not just drivers — to start embedded software validation well ahead of silicon availability.”

Last week, EVE made its pre-DAC announcement when it announced it had added Transaction-Level Modeling Standard (TLM)-2.0 support to its ZeBu hardware-assisted verification platforms.

EVE specified that TLM-2.0 support for ZeBu allows the creation of high performance hybrid virtual platforms that combine SystemC and RTL models and bridges the gap between software modeling and hardware implementation.