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July 17, 2006
Azul Systems Deploys Denali Memory in Compute Appliances
Azul Systems has successfully implemented Denali's Databahn DDR2
memory controller in its new Vega 2 processor chip.
Designed by Azul and fabricated by Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in an advanced 90 nanometer (nm) process,
the Azul Vega 2 is the only single-chip 64-bit
processor that contains 48 cache-coherent processor cores. The
812-million transistor chip will act as the foundation for the
company's upcoming second-generation line of compute appliances,
designed to deliver compute and memory resources as a shared network
service for transaction-intensive applications in enterprise computing
environments.
Chip designers at Azul Systems implemented Denali's Databahn memory
controller intellectual property in the Vega 2 chip to control the
external DDR2-SDRAM memory devices. Azul also used Denali's MMAV
memory modeling product to simulate the interaction between the Vega 2
chip and the external DDR2 devices to ensure correct and optimal
performance early in the design process before the chip was fabricated.
"Vega 2 is a very high performance processor, and the memory system
is a critical element of the architecture required to sustain the
levels of performance we have been able to achieve," said Scott
Sellers, chief operating officer and co-founder at Azul Systems. "We
use a sophisticated design and verification flow for our chip
development, and by working with Denali, we were able to deploy the
memory controller IP, utilize their memory simulation environment, and
ultimately meet our aggressive development targets with a high-quality
product."
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