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Denali Software, Inc., the leading provider of electronic design automation (EDA) tools and intellectual property (IP) for chip interface design and verification, today announced that Unisys Corporation has licensed Denali's PCI Express verification tools for the development of the PCI Express interfaces in its next-generation ES7000 server chips. Unisys engineers are using Denali's PureSpec verification IP to model, simulate, and verify the interface between Unisys chips and other PCI Express compliant devices. By using Denali's PureSpec solution, Unisys engineers can expose potential interoperability bugs early in the development cycle before the designs are implemented in silicon, saving valuable development time and resulting in faster time-to-market with a higher quality end product. "Denali continues to be a key innovator with tools and technology for interface modeling and interoperability verification," said Diep Nguyen, Hardware Engineer Manager at Unisys Corporation. "Using Denali's PureSpec helps us verify that our designs are compliant with the PCI Express standard and interoperable with other PCI Express implementations." Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. Inspired by mainframe designs, the ES7000 delivers very high levels of power, availability, agility and simplicity Intel-based environments. Based on the Unisys Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) architecture, the ES7000 scales up to 32 Intel processors in Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition operating environments. Unisys ES7000 servers are built for solutions that support large databases and large numbers of users with high I/O throughput and enterprise-capable scalability, performance and resilience. They combine self-management characteristics with the ability to consolidate applications and databases to reduce total cost of ownership and complexity in the data center. "Our role is to provide industry leaders such as Unisys with tools for designing and verifying chips that incorporate the PCI Express standard," said David Lin, vice president of strategic marketing for Denali. "A key part of this enablement is ensuring that these chip designs are interoperable with other PCI Express devices. Widespread use of the PureSpec product in the industry helps our customers to coordinate verification efforts and achieve pre-silicon interoperability verification."