Atmel Standardizes on Denali's Behavioral Simulation Models for the In System Integration of Its Flash memory Products

Atmel joins Denali's Memory Vendor Partner (MVP) program to shorten time to market for integrating Atmel Flash memory in to system designs

Atmel Corporation and Denali Software Inc. announced today that Atmel Corporation has joined Denali's Memory Vendor Program. Under the terms of the agreement, Denali will develop and maintain models for all existing and future Atmel Flash devices, including stacked modules, DataFlash®, and parallel Flash. Atmel's Flash devices are used in numerous applications such as cellular phones, set top boxes, disk drives, DVD's and answering machines. The models will be developed using Denali's SOMA^TM modeling technology, the defacto standard adopted by every major memory manufacturer worldwide.

Atmel will validate and certify the functionality of these models. All updates, specification changes, bug fixes, etc., are automatically sent to Atmel customers. Now, designers have a single source for information, models, tools, and eventually memory controller intellectual property to drive these Flash memory chips.

Denali's Memory Modeler-Advanced Verification (MMAV) tool is the most powerful solution for modeling memory and verifying memory interfaces. The C-based MMAV architecture delivers high performance verification. It supports all memories from all vendors. It integrates seamlessly into all simulators including: Verilog, VHDL, C, and custom simulators, as well as all testbench tools including Specman Elite, VERA, and TestBuilder. Powerful verification features include load-save- compare memory images during simulation, transaction monitoring, back-door memory read and write operation, error injection routines, and callbacks on error detection. The quality of Denali's MMAV memory modeling solution is proven in silicon in thousands of commercial designs.