Polaris Acquired Prototyping Assets of IRIS

Published:2012/3/22 2:02:00 Author:Li xiao na From:SeekIC

Polaris Design Systems is a Silicon Valley start-up company, which is specialized in hardware-enabled semiconductor verification. It has acquired Asic/SoC device prototyping assets of IRIS Technologies which develops and sells Altera FPGA-based Asic prototyping devices. Polaris Design System has declaimed that it will continue to market and support the Altera Stratix family of Asic/Soc prototyping solutions.

More and more SoC designs are entering the integration of pre-existing design IPs; therefore, it is urgent that it be thoroughly verified prior to a chip tape out, including running application-level software on the stitched RTL code so as to identify and fix corner-case and functional level defects in their implementation.

The software simulators are unable to handle the complexity and are slow. What is worse, the typically hardware emulation platforms are expensive and difficult to use. Polaris Design Systems’ standard-based, Altera FPGA-based Asic/SoC prototyping products had solved the above problems by offering a sweet spot with its compelling, price/performance metrics.

The first shipment of this company was delivered to a large Japanese industrial conglomerate which was a repeat customer of IRIS. The PROTOtyping Japan has been appointed as Polaris Design Systems’ exclusive distributor in Japan. PROTOtyping Japan has been a leading distributor of ASIC prototyping solutions to the semiconductor industry starting with Hardi Electronics, which is now part of Synopsys. The cooperation between these two companies will bring benefit to each other.

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