Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and ARM have collaborated on a hardware/software co-verification environment, the Cadence Incisive Palladium III that speeds up the system validation process to create a faster path to first silicon working with early software. The acceleration/emulation system will be for advanced processor development. It will be used for in-circuit emulation, as well as transaction-based acceleration. Multimedia, graphics and network storage applications will be the focus, allowing customers to expand and accelerate their system validation ramp-up in these markets. Based on a reference design utilizing the Palladium III system, ARM RealView Debugger, ARM processor IP and Cadence SpeedBridge adapters can demonstrates audio/video playback and capture of AVI and MP3 files, as well as Web browsing, software debugging and Linux boot. Using the collaborative environment, customers are able to ramp-up the ARM processor-based design system validation environments quickly. www.cadence.com www.armcorp.com