NVIDIA HAS licensed chip-making tools from Denali Software Inc, designed to help it integrate PCI Express architecture in its upcoming generation of graphics chips. PCI Express is a serial interconnect technology that will replace the AGP standard in motherboards in the next generation of graphics applications. It is designed as part of the initiative labed 3GIO (third generation I/O) to significantly increase bandwidth between the CPU and GPU by balancing the distribution of bandwidth to those applications that require it the most. Denali says that fabless NVIDIA engineers are now using Denali's PureSpec product to check the operation of the PCI Express interface in its chip designs. The tool is designed to help chip engineers catch potential bugs early in the development cycle before the design goes silicon.
In a statement, Gopal Solanki, vice president of hardware engineering at NVIDIA called PCI Express is "a key technology for our next-generation GPUs". He said that during evalution, Denali's PureSpec "caught a number of bugs that went undetected using other methods. "We continue to be impressed by the tool's performance, and we have incorporated it into our overall verification methodology for our PCI Express interfaces." Financial implications of the multi-year licensing deal have not been revealed
Source:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11120
Linear Mode
