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EDN Magazine Names Tharas Systems' Hammer Hardware Accelerator Innovation of the Year Finalist
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 26, 2001--Hammer®
50/32 from Tharas Systems, Inc., based here, has been selected from a
field of hundreds of candidates as a finalist in the EDN Magazine 11th
Annual Innovation of the Year Awards Competition. The awards program,
sponsored by EDN Magazine, is dedicated to honoring outstanding
engineering products in the electronics industry.
Products/technologies qualifying for a 2000 EDN Innovation award
must have been introduced and commercially marketed from January 1
through December 31, 2000. Thirteen major product/technology areas
were eligible for consideration, including Electronic Design
Automation (EDA) tools, the appropriate category for Hammer 50/32.
``Hammer is innovative and different,'' says Gabe Moretti, EDA and
ASIC editor at EDN. It appears to be able to decrease the verification
time and cost for system-on-chip design. It also appears to be new
technology and not a copy of the technology that has been used over
the last 15 years.``
Hammer improves a logic designer's ability to efficiently create
and implement system on chip (SOC) designs by accelerating simulation
and eliminating the verification bottleneck. Designers can continue to
use familiar verification tools, including Verilog Hardware
Description Language (HDL)-based simulators, debugging and
testbench-generation software and C language models.
``It is a great honor to be recognized for the innovation involved
in creating a completely new approach to RTL acceleration,'' adds Steve
Carlson, chief executive officer at Tharas Systems. ``To be a finalist
out of 300 EDA companies is truly a great achievement.''
Finalist products in each category were selected by a panel of
EDN's technical editors. Winners of the award will be chosen by EDN's
worldwide readers through an online ballot at the EDN Access Web Site
-- http://www.ednmag.com. Winning products will be announced at an
awards banquet Monday, April 9, at the Pan Pacific Hotel in San
Francisco, and in the April 26 issue of EDN Magazine.
ABOUT EDN MAGAZINE
EDN, the premier design magazine of the electronics industry, is
published by Cahners Business Information. Headquartered in Newton,
Mass., it serves the vital information needs of the design engineers
and engineering managers worldwide. The EDN franchise includes EDN,
EDN Europe, EDN Asia, EDN China, EDN Japan and EDN Access, the EOEM's
premier publication Web Site.
About Tharas Systems
Tharas Systems, named for the Sanskrit word that means rapid
progress or velocity, is developing easy-to-use hardware accelerators
for the register transfer level (RTL) of electronics design that fit
within an existing verification environment. Founded in 1998, it is
privately held and funded by venture capital and private investors
from throughout the electronics industry. Corporate headquarters is
located at 3016 Coronado Drive, Santa Clara, Calif. 95054. Telephone:
(408) 855-3201. Facsimile: (408) 845-9209. Email: info@tharas.com.
On-line information is found at its Web Site: http://www.tharas.com.
Hammer 50/32 is a registered trademark of Tharas Systems Inc.
Tharas acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other
organizations for their respective products and services.
Contact:
for Tharas Systems, Inc.
Nanette Collins
(617) 437-1822
nanette@nvc.com
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