SAN FRANCISCO—EDA vendor Mentor Graphics Corp. Wednesday (April 25) announced the availability of its next-generation hardware emulation system, Veloce2, promising twice the performance, twice the capacity and four times productivity gain in the same footprint and power consumption as its predecessor.
Mentor (Wilsonville, Ore.) also tipped a related new concept, Veloce VirtuaLAB, said to provide verification engineers access to easy-to-use, software-based peripherals connected to the Veloce platform. These software-based peripherals provide a "virtual lab" environment to verify complex electronics systems, including the embedded software and the SoCs that make up the system prior to first silicon availability, according to Jim Kenney, director of marketing for Mentor’s emulation division.
According to Kenney, more customers continue to adopt emulation as designs get larger and the gap between emulation performance and simulation tools grows wider. Kenney said Mentor sees growth of emulation driven by three factors: larger designs, the need among existing emulation users for more capacity and customers' desire to execute debug software sooner than they can with a simulator or FPGA prototype.
According to Gary Smith EDA, the emulation market is expected to be worth about $211 million in 2012, up from about $118 million in 2008. Kenney, who believes those numbers may be conservative, used additional data supplied by the EDA Consortium to estimate that the emulation market was worth about $225 million in 2011 and expected to be worth more this year.
Gary Smith EDA estimates that the market share of Veloce, the predecessor to the system introduced Wednesday, grew from about 9 percent in 2008 to about 36 percent in 2010.
"We've done quite well and, now that we are introducing a new product, we expect to keep capturing more market share with Veloce," Kenney said.
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