AMD Uses Cadence Incisive Palladium II Accelerator/Emulator for ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

AMD successfully used the Cadence Incisive Palladium II Accelerator/Emulator to deliver the first working silicon for its complex ATI Radeon[tm] HD 4800 series graphics design produced in 2008. The ATI Radeon HD 4800 series includes over 800 million transistors and is the most complex AMD graphics design shipped to date. Cadence’s Palladium II system and its integrated verification solution provide the most efficient way to test complex interactive ASIC designs. The Palladium series provides the highest throughput for validation of complex hardware, software and full systems in the wireless, graphics, networking and consumer markets. The series delivers superior debug, system-wide management, and advanced verification automation features such as assertion- and transaction-based acceleration, and can bring-up a new design in emulation in less than a week…