Simpod, Inc.

Simpod's product families are uniquely positioned to capitalize on the three critical demands of simulation users: Model Accuracy, Model Performance and Model Availability.

The existing solutions in the market require the design teams to make compromises, leading to slipped product releases and costly design re-spins. Even with the newest cycle-based simulation methods and co-verification systems, development teams are hard pressed to run all of the target application code on the chip or board design before release to manufacturing. The risk of missing product market windows due to bottlenecks in the design verification process has continued to increase in the past few years.

In order to make effective use of simulation, design teams must have timely access to the highest performing, most accurate models of the components within their design. The coming era of SOC has highlighted the fundamental limitations (performance and accuracy) of the existing modeling methods, and has provided a unique opportunity for Simpod to use its breakthrough technology to crack the verification bottleneck.

Key to Simpod's breakthrough technology is the company's POD-Element building block, incorporating recently patented (# 5,748,875) and patent-pending techniques for linking a hardware device to simulation. The POD-Element provides a Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket which is rapidly configurable for connecting a digital device or sub-system of up to 450 signals directly for use with HDL and co-verification simulators. The flexibility and performance of the POD-Element enables the Simpod to deliver the fastest, full-function models in the industry's most cost-effective product family, the DeskPOD