Denali and Mentor Deliver an Educational On-Demand Webcast - 'Advanced Verification with OVM and PureSpec'

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Denali Software, Inc., a leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP), today announced a joint Mentor-Denali on-demand webcast about verification maximizing productivity in an Open Verification Methodology (OVM) environment by leveraging Denali PureSpec™ features. The webcast provides a high-level view of several OVM features such as: testbench separation, flexible component instantiation, configurability, sequence stimulus, and TLM communications as well as the implementation of these elements with the industry-standard PureSpec solution for predictable protocol verification.

"The accelerated adoption of OVM has led to increased demands for advanced information to derive the most from OVM," said Dennis Brophy, director of strategic business development at Mentor Graphics. "Collaborating with Denali has allowed us to put in place an educational webcast that highlights the industry's most extensive OVM-based portfolio of robust verification solutions along with our best-in-class design and verification environment."

Denali's SystemVerilog VIP solutions support an expansive collection of the latest interface and memory technologies, including PCI Express 3.0, SATA, USB 3.0, DDR3, and NAND Flash, enabling seamless integration with OVM and Questa verification platform for accelerated verification closure. Denali's PureSpec and MMAV have supported OVM since the 1.0 specification. Additionally, PureSpec's transactors, sequence libraries, and scoreboard features can be seamlessly integrated in any OVM-based verification environment to minimize risks improve design quality.

"AppliedMicro values working with leading IP providers, such as Denali, who can provide high-quality products to help us achieve our design requirements in the most cost-effective manner," said Amal Bommireddy, vice president of engineering at AppliedMicro. "In order to get to market quickly with lower risk of integration errors, AppliedMicro chose Denali verification IP architected for seamless integration into our advanced SystemVerilog design and verification methodology. Denali's products' performance and integration gives us confidence that our end-products will properly interoperate with these industry standard interfaces."

"We have a large number of customers who use our solutions in an OVM environment to ensure that their designs are fully validated," said Sanjiv Kumar, director, technical marketing of IP products for Denali. "We are pleased to provide this educational webcast with Mentor to help our mutual customers leverage these features to increase their design and verification productivity."

About Denali's Verification IP Portfolio

Denali's best-in-class, standards-based VIP solutions provides more than 500 companies worldwide the latest technology to design and verify complex chip interfaces for communication, consumer, and computing products. Denali's MMAV and PureSpec products are part of a comprehensive VIP portfolio for predictable compliance of memories and protocol interfaces. Denali's VIP seamlessly integrates into various testbenches, languages, simulators, and is compliant with popular advanced verification methodologies. For more details, visit: www.denali.com/purespec and www.denali.com/mmav.

About Denali Software

Denali Software, Inc., is a leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) software and intellectual property (IP) for system-on-chip (SoC) design and verification. Denali delivers the industry's most trusted solutions for deploying PCI Express, USB, NAND Flash, and DDR SDRAM subsystems. Developers use Denali's EDA, IP, and services to reduce risk and speed time-to-market for electronic system and chip design. Denali is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and has offices around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about Denali, its products and services is available at www.denali.com.

Denali and Denali Software are registered trademarks of Denali Software, Inc. PureSpec is a trademark of Denali Software, Inc. All other trademarks are of their respective owners.

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