Nvidia used the Cadence Incisive Palladium acceleration/emulation system to significantly reduce the verification time for its new GeForce 6800 graphics processor, the company's most complex, highest-performance chip to date.
Nvidia reports that the verification time savings enabled by the Palladium system allowed it to meet the market window for its new product with increased confidence in hardware performance and software quality.
The high performance Palladium system provides scalable capacity, multi-user capability, superior debug and very fast compile time, resulting in comprehensive application-level software testing.
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