Cadence Incisive Palladium vs Mentor Graphics MODELSIM 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

In addition to supporting standard HDLs, ModelSim increases design quality and debug productivity. ModelSim’s award-winning Single Kernel Simulator (SKS) technology enables transparent mixing of VHDL and Verilog in one design. Its architecture allows platform-independent compile with the outstanding performance of native compiled code.

The graphical user interface is powerful, consistent, and intuitive. All windows update automatically following activity in any other window. For example, selecting a design region in the Structure window automatically updates the Source, Signals, Process, and Variables windows. You can edit, recompile, and re-simulate without leaving the ModelSim environment. All user interface operations can be scripted and simulations can run in batch or interactive modes. ModelSim simulates behavioral, RTL, and gate-level code, including VHDL VITAL and Verilog gate libraries, with timing provided by the Standard Delay Format (SDF).