e*ECAD and Source III Announce Partnership

e*ECAD is proud to announce that it has signed a software and distribution partnering agreement with Source III. Founded in 1980 as a full custom and semi custom design services company, Source III migrated into EDA tool sales in 1986 when they began offering tools originally developed for internal use.

Simulation and Test Data Management tools

The entire suite of Source III Simulation and Test data management tools will be available on www.eecad.com. Source III is also offering a DAC promotion for customers who purchase VTRAN before September 30, 2002. Buy a perpetual or annual time-based license of VTRAN and receive a free 3-month license of VCAP.

VTRAN, a powerful vector translation engine enables serious designers and test engineers to read state and timing information from simulation or ATPG-generated files, performs a variety of processing steps and targets output formats to over 30 popular logic simulators and ATE platforms. VGEN is a stimulus generation language, which supports numerous simulators and provides a powerful high-level language interface for the pattern generation task. VCAP delivers comprehensive simulation data comparison and analysis, and provides powerful features for normalizing simulation data to adjust for differences in format, timing and print mode.

Availability

All Source III tools support Sun Solaris, HPUX, IBM AIX, and Linux platforms. VTRAN, VGEN and VCAP will be available through e*ECAD in monthly and yearly subscription licenses and perpetual licenses.

About Source III

Source III is the leading provider of simulation and test management software used by IC, EDA, and ATE companies to automate the design-to-test process, extend product capabilities, and provide support to a wide variety of language formats including STIL and WGL. Source III's products empower customers to reduce development costs, shorten time-to-market, and deliver high quality products.

About e*ECAD

e*ECAD provides EDA tools from both established and emerging companies with a variety of licensing options including pay-per-hour tool rental and subscription licensing. By offering a broad range of tools for creating tool flows e*ECAD decreases IC Design time-to-market, and it streamlines the customer/vendor interface by utilizing the Internet for tool procurement and delivery. e*ECAD is committed to providing value to customers by offering high-quality tools with an affordable pricing structure.