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HARDI and PLDA has signed a partnership to bundle PLDA's PCI Express IP controller with HAPS

San Jose, Calif., July 13, 2006 -- PLDApplications (PLDA), the leader in the PCI Express IP controller market, and HARDI Electronics, the leader in platform-based ASIC prototyping, today announced a partnership to bundle PLDA's IP controller with the HARDI ASIC Prototyping System (HAPS).
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HAPS Customer Story – "One Tape-out & One Mask" C2 Microsystems Inc., San Jose, California

The C2 Microsystems CC1000 Media Processor is a highly integrated System on a Chip (SoC) targeted at low cost, high performance audio/video applications. Target Applications include set-top PVRs, portable media player/recorders and networked digital media adapters.

Quotes from Neal Bedard Director, System Hardware C2 Microsystems

The Verification Challenge
"We are a startup with a big ASIC design challenge, a limited amount of money, and even less time. The CC1000 is a big, complex SoC with about 4 million ASIC gates. It has multiple memory agents on multiple clock domains that would have been impossible to simulate in any reasonable schedule. FPGA Proto­typing as close to system speed as possible was our only choice for verification. We had one chance. We had to get it right.

We liked the unique flexibility of HAPS. Having a general-purpose platform motherboard that could be quickly configured to our needs with off-the-shelf daughter boards made a lot of sense. We added a few of our own HAPS compatible daughter boards for special purpose functions, and quickly got our prototype operational. The HAPS flexibility includes the reuse of all these boards on our next project, even if we have to add a next generation HAPS motherboard to accommodate larger designs."

First Silicon Success
“HAPS helped us in several ways. First, we showed a working prototype of our design to potential investors. It made raising money easier. Second, the prototype thoroughly verified our design, including the discovery of a critical bug. And finally, we used it as a demo platform in early customer engagements. We had First Pass Silicon Success with one tape-out and one-mask. HAPS helped make it happen and is part of the CC1000’s success.”

Quote from Lars-Eric Lundgren CEO HARDI Electronics
“We are delighted with the First Silicon Success of C2 Microsystems. While many of our customers are very large, mature companies, C2’s experience clearly demonstrates the HAPS value for startup companies as well.”