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Subject: One User's Take On Quickturn Going Against ARKOS/Synopsys
> QUICKTURN & SPEEDSIM VS. ARKOS & CYCLONE. Given that QuickTurn's
> emulation technology is based on reprogramming FPGAs, while the far faster
> non-FPGA, special custom microprocessor based ARKOS is just now hitting
> the hardware emulation market, quite a few users thought that ARKOS would
> be a technological death knell for QuickTurn. QuickTurn has adeptly
> countered this threat by signing an OEM deal with IBM to resell IBM's
> ARKOS-like emulators called "Cobalt". The schuttlebutt on this is that
> although it may technologically temporarily meet the ARKOS threat, from
> a business perspective it's put QuickTurn in a bind because it's hard
> to make serious money when your future is based on reselling IBM boxes.
From: Nelson_Willhite@BayNetworks.COM (Nelson Willhite)
John...
I attended the Chrysalis, Quickturn, Systems Science Verification97 Seminar
last week. The Quickturn speaker was VERY DEFENSIVE in his presentation.
He was constantly defending Quickturn's product-line. Also, they are
trying to partition CoBALT and System Realizer to different market segments:
System Realizer: Asynchronous & Synchronous logic, gated clocks, delay
dependent clocks, < 300K gates
CoBALT: Synchronous Only, Single or Multiple clocks, Limited number of
design styles supported, > 300K gates
It will be interesting to see if they succeed pushing both technologies.
- Nelson Willhite
Bay Networks
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