Cadence Palladium Platform vs IxVerify comparison

The Incisive Enterprise Palladium series of accelerators/emulators is a key component of the Incisive functional verification platform. It provides the performance needed to verify embedded software and HW/SW interactions.Palladium systems offer verification speeds of 100 to 1,000,000x faster than RTL simulation alone, fast bring-uptime and compile times in minutes. Palladium systems also offer several use models with multi-user capability, remote access, hard and soft IP, and testing with live data through Incisive SpeedBridge rate adaptors

IxVerify provides hundreds of predefined packet templates for testing Ethernet and TCP/IP protocols and is capable of generating high volumes of traffic. With its ability to run hundreds of virtualized test ports at once, it offers the unique ability to dynamically shape traffic to ensure zero packet loss at maximum emulation speeds.

• Validates networking chip design earlier in the development cycle
• Generates custom Ethernet traffic by using predefined packet templates
• Delivers powerful statistics with bandwidth analysis and latency measurements
• Offers dynamic traffic rate shaping for zero packet loss
• Shares test configurations with IxNetwork VE
• Provides test automation via multiple languages, including REST API
• Provides flexible test environment definition with support for multiple users
• Enables faster time to market for next generation networking chips