Summit Design Releases HDL Score 4.0; Major Enhancements Support Latch-Based Design, Mixed-HDL Design Coverage On PC And UNIX Platforms

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 20, 2003--Summit Design, Inc., the pioneer of electronic system-level (ESL) design solutions and methodologies, today introduced HDL Score 4.0. The latest version of the industry-leading code coverage tool now supports latch-based finite state models (FSM), signal marking and increased performance for mixed-HDL designs on both UNIX and PC platforms.

HDL Score 4.0 expands FSM (arc, state, sequence) extraction and coverage to support multi-phase design modeling. The new release also allows designers to mark unused signals and constants in order to optimize performance of the tool by eliminating unnecessary coverage data. HDL Score traces the object and its propagation across the design hierarchy. HDL Score supports Verilog and VHDL designs giving designers the independence of having one code coverage model for multiple languages and simulation tools.

"Over its seven-year lifetime HDL Score has matured into more than a code coverage tool," said Rami Rachamim, director of marketing for Summit. "HDL Score provides a foundational methodology to verify complex design, as well as the detailed requirements needed to perform full coverage analysis. It is a valuable component for most advanced design methodologies today."

About HDL Score

HDL Score provides design and verification groups the tools that are needed to efficiently evaluate and analyze the design behavior and the tests that are used to drive simulation. Its comprehensive and dynamic coverage model for tracking and monitoring functional execution offers a variety of scenarios and sophisticated analysis on the way the design is tested.

HDL Score's advanced algorithms test extensive edge and boundary conditions not in the mainstream functionality and usually very hard to discover. The tool can dynamically activate and allocate coverage, and allows designers to manually or automatically tag FSMs. It can carry forward or re-use test vectors from previously tested HDL and supports incremental coverage, test ordering and optimization, which reduces verification time substantially.

Pricing and Availability

HDL Score is available now, with prices beginning at $15,000 U.S.

About Summit Design

Summit Design is a leading international supplier of software products addressing engineering challenges met during the specification and implementation design phases of complex hardware/software systems. The world's top electronics companies use Summit Design's products to increase engineering productivity, shorten time to market, and improve product quality. Summit Design is headquartered in Burlington, Mass. with offices in Europe, Asia and Israel. For more information on Summit and its products, visit http://www.sd.com.

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