Atrenta's SpyGlass Wins Prestigious "LSI Design of the Year" Award
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 19, 2002--Atrenta Inc.,
the Predictive Analysis Company, announced that its SpyGlass
Predictive Analyzer was awarded the prestigious "LSI Design of The
Year" Award by Japan's Semiconductor Industry News. SpyGlass was
chosen from approximately two hundred contenders to receive the
Excellence Award in the Design Environment/Development Tools category.
Factors influencing the selection of winners included product
innovation, ability to address a real challenge, and customer
acceptance. Atrenta's SpyGlass, which is in use by over fifty
customers worldwide, emerged as the winner of the Excellence Award.
Semiconductor Industry News honored Atrenta and its Japanese
distributor, PDI, at a special reception at the Embedded Systems Expo
& Conference in Tokyo on June 28th, 2002.
"SpyGlass was chosen for its predictive analysis capabilities,
which allow users to perform in-depth analysis of Verilog and VHDL at
RTL creation phase, identify complex issues, and correct them before
simulation and synthesis, thus saving time and money," stated Dr. Isao
Shirakawa, professor of Information Systems Engineering at Osaka
University and chairman of the LSI Design of the Year selection
committee. "SpyGlass has many successful customers in Japan who are
using SpyGlass to reduce costly design iterations, reduce risk of
schedule slip, and achieve the confidence of releasing a better
quality ASIC/SoC in shorter time."
"We believe Atrenta's SpyGlass has made very significant
contribution in shortening the design cycle time of SoCs," stated Dr.
Takashi Nanya, professor at University of Tokyo and committee chief of
LSI Design of the Year. "The predictive analysis technique to detect
downstream problems in the initial stage of the design is very
innovative and unique. This is going to accelerate the design of more
advanced digital devices. SpyGlass has proven to live up to its name
of looking ahead."
"We are honored to receive this very notable award from one of
Japan's leading technology publications," said Dr. Ajoy Bose, CEO and
President of Atrenta Inc. "Selected as the winner by the committee
comprising of world renowned professors from leading Japanese
universities, lends special significance to this award. This award is
continued validation of SpyGlass' innovation in solving a major
challenge in designing complex SoCs."
About Atrenta
Atrenta offers a new approach in accelerating the design of
complex ASICs, FPGAs, and SoCs through predictive analysis. Its
SpyGlass software is the first tool that performs detailed structural
analysis on register-transfer-level Verilog and VHDL code to check for
complex problems, which include coding styles, RTL-handoff, design
re-use, clock/reset requirements, and much more. Its breakthrough and
innovative "look-ahead" capability incorporates a fast-synthesis
engine, logic evaluator, and testability technologies. Atrenta has
over fifty customers, including Agere, Agilent, Apple, ARM, Canon,
Compaq, Fujitsu, Hitachi, LSI Logic, Motorola, National Semiconductor,
NCR, Nortel, Olympus and Toshiba, who are using SpyGlass to achieve
shorter overall design cycles, increased design productivity and lower
costs. Atrenta is headquartered in San Jose, California, with European
headquarters in Swindon, England, a research and development center in
India, and sales and support distributors in India, Israel, Japan,
Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. For further information, visit the
Atrenta website at http://www.atrenta.com or call 408/453-3333.
Atrenta and SpyGlass are trademarks of Atrenta Inc. All other
trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Contact:
Atrenta
Mona Singh, 408/467-4248
mona@atrenta.com
or
Atrenta PR Counsel
Paula Jones, 650/967-3711
paula@newiic.com
