IRVINE, Calif., December 13, 2010 –Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq:MSCC), a leading provider of semiconductor technology aimed at building a secure, smart, connected world, today announced it has adopted Sibridge Technologies’ Verification Intellectual Property (VIP) to reduce time to market for its innovative FPGA and customizable SoC products. Sibridge Technologies is a provider of innovative ASIC/FPGA, design and verification IPs and embedded systems solutions. The company offers a suite of Design IP (DIP) and Verification IP (VIP) for industry-standard interfaces including PCI Express Gen 3/Gen 2/Gen 1, Ethernet 100G/40G/10G/1G, USB 3.0/2.0, SATA 2.0/1.0, AMBA AHB/AXI and I2C.
“Sibridge Technologies provides a wide variety of pervasive high-speed protocol DIP and VIP. Sibridge Technologies’ comprehensive DIP and VIP offerings enabled us to successfully integrate and verify multiple instances of these cores into our state of the art 65nm embedded flash product line, in a timely and cost-effective manner,” said Pierre Selwan, director of engineering, SoC Products Group at Microsemi.
“Microsemi’s selection of our VIP suite validates Sibridge Technologies as a partner in the development of innovative FPGA solutions,” said Rajesh Shah, CEO Sibridge Technologies. “Our VIPs have enabled Microsemi to improve quality, productivity and predictability while minimizing verification time and efforts.”
Sibridge’s VIPs leverage the power of SystemVerilog to provide verification engineers with highly scalable, expandable and easy to use verification solution. Sibridge Technologies’ VIPs are native SystemVerilog-based solutions that support OVM, VMM and UVM and improve simulation speed significantly. The high-quality VIPs from Sibridge Technologies enable customers to discover bugs at a much faster rate than anticipated, thereby reducing time to market while increasing the quality of products.
About Sibridge Technologies
Sibridge Technologies provides innovative value added solutions for design, verification, and embedded systems development to worldwide semiconductors and electronic product companies. The company offers a unique blend of three critical components in the development of SoCs: design and verification IP portfolios; strong chip design, integration, and verification expertise; embedded systems hardware & software design and validation for streaming media, wireless, and networking applications. The company has design centers in Ahmedabad, India and Santa Clara, USA. For more information please contact info@sibridgetech.com or visit http://www.sibridgetech.com/
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq:MSCC) offers the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor technology. Committed to solving the most critical system challenges, Microsemi’s products include high-performance, high-reliability analog and RF devices, mixed signal integrated circuits, FPGAs and customizable SoCs, and complete subsystems. Microsemi serves leading system manufacturers around the world in the defense, security, aerospace, enterprise, commercial, and industrial markets. Learn more at http://www.microsemi.com.
