Verisity Adds Three New Members to the VIP Program
0-In, American Arium and Fintronic USA Partner with Verisity in Advancing Verification Interoperability
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 20, 2001--Verisity,
Ltd. (Nasdaq:VRST - news), the leading provider of functional verification
automation software tools, today announced that 0-In Design
Automation, American Arium and Fintronic USA have joined the Verisity
Interoperability Partners (VIP(TM)) program. The VIP program brings
together Verisity and other verification tool providers for the
purpose of developing and supporting integrations between the
companies' solutions and Verisity's Specman Elite(TM), SureCov(TM) and
SureLint(TM) products.
"It's absolutely vital that we partner with other verification
tool providers to create integrated verification environments for our
mutual customers," said Dave Tokic, director of strategic marketing
for Verisity Design, Inc. "The addition of these new partners brings
the number of partners in Verisity's VIP program up to 20, a clear
sign of market pull for Verisity's solutions."
0-In has joined the VIP program to develop an integrated
verification approach between Specman Elite and 0-In Check. 0-In Check
enables white-box verification where designers instrument their RTL
with CheckerWare checkers and protocol monitors to catch design errors
and to measure the structural coverage of the design in simulation.
The integration will be available early in 2002.
"Using the 0-In CheckerWare Interface functions, a Specman Elite
testbench can react to statistics and structural coverage information
from the checkers and monitors in real time during simulation," said
Ping Yeung, Verification Products Manager at 0-In. "After identifying
areas which are insufficiently exercised, Specman Elite can respond by
altering its test generation or fine-tuning its directed-random
parameters dynamically to improve the effectiveness of the testbench."
American Arium, a supplier of hardware and software development
tools for Intel IA-32, IA-64, and ARM processors, has begun developing
an integration between Specman Elite and SourcePoint(TM). SourcePoint
is a high-level language debugger with ties into instruction
simulation and hardware simulation. The integration is expected to be
available in Q1 of 2002.
"By integrating with Verisity's Specman Elite, we can provide far
greater value to our customers," said Larry Traylor, CEO, American
Arium. "The VIP program teams us with the leading provider of
functional verification tools to deliver customers a highly integrated
verification flow."
Fintronic USA joined the VIP program to develop an integration
between Verisity's Specman Elite and Fintronic's Super FinSim Verilog
simulator. Super FinSim is a high-performance, robust Verilog
simulator, compatible with all the main players in the Verilog market.
Super FinSim's low memory utilization, proprietary swapping mechanism,
compact results format, make it ideal for use in large simulation
farms.
"Close integration between verification tools is vital for
customer success," said Alec Stanculescu, president and chief
executive officer at Fintronics USA. "We've had customers specifically
request that we partner with Verisity to develop an integration
between our tools, and the VIP program gives us the infrastructure to
do just that."
About the VIP Program
VIP members develop, test, support and maintain the integrations
between their products and Verisity's. Verisity provides VIP members
with tool licenses, documentation, support, software updates and
access to beta releases for Verisity's verification products. To join,
potential members must have at least three mutual customers who would
benefit from the proposed integration. License and maintenance fees
are charged on a "per configuration" basis, with the configuration
constituting up to one each of Specman Elite, SureCov and/or SureLint
at $1,000 per configuration. Members may obtain no more than six (6)
configurations under this agreement.
About Verisity
Verisity is the leading provider of proprietary technologies and
software products used to efficiently verify designs of electronic
systems and complex integrated circuits that are essential to the
communications and other high growth segments of the electronics
industry. Verisity's products automate the process of detecting flaws
in these designs, enabling customers to deliver higher quality
products, accelerate time-to-market and reduce overall product
development costs.
Verisity Design, Inc.'s principal executive offices are located in
Mountain View, Calif. The Company's principal research and development
offices and the corporate headquarters of Verisity Ltd. are located in
Rosh Ha'ain, Israel. For more information, see Verisity's Web site at
www.verisity.com.
Note to Editors: Verisity is a registered trademark of Verisity
Design, Inc. Specman Elite, SureCov, SureLint and VIP are trademarks
of Verisity Design, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective holders.
Contact:
Verisity Design, Inc.
Jennifer Bilsey, 650/934-6823
jen@verisity.com
