SAN FRANCISCO — Denali Software said Tuesday (June 7) it would work with electronic design services provider GDA Technologies in a collaborative development effort focused on creating a comprehensive intellectual property (IP) platform for chip developers implementing the Advanced Switching Interconnect (ASI) standard.

Primary elements of the platform include Denali's PureSpec verification IP product for the ASI standard and the Advanced Switching IP core product from GDA (San Jose, Calif.).

Denali (Palo Alto, Calif.) said GDA's Advanced Switching IP core verification environment uses PureSpec as one of the verification components. The environment is reusable for complete IP verification, system-level functional modeling, register transfer level (RTL) bring-up and integration, and system performance modeling, Denali said. Denali's back-end model provides an executable specification for RTL integration with GDA's Advanced Switching IP core, according to Denali.

In a statement issued Tuesday, Rajeev Kumar, advanced switching initiatives manager for Intel Corp. and president of the ASI special interest group, said industry support for ASI technology is increasing and that first silicon is expected to be available sometime during the second half of the year.

"Design and verification products are a key part of this ecosystem," Kumar said. "By providing these integrated IP solutions, Denali and GDA are helping enable designers to more efficiently deploy ASI designs that will help speed broad adoption of the standard."