EDN Magazine Names Atrenta's SpyGlass as One of the Top 100 Products of the Year
SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2003--Atrenta(R) Inc.,
the Predictive Analysis Company(R), announced that its award-winning
SpyGlass(R) Predictive Analyzer tool has been selected by EDN magazine
as one of the Top 100 products for 2002. SpyGlass was chosen from a
field of thousands of electronic products and technologies for
recognition in the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) category. Every
year, EDN magazine picks 100 truly innovative and exciting products to
which its readers respond "in a really big way". The list is published
in its December 12, 2002 issue and is currently available on the EDN
Access web site (www.ednmag.com).
EDN wrote, "Thousands of new electronic products come along every
year. All, no doubt, are useful, and many are innovative, yet only a
relative few generate real excitement." These exciting products are
selected as top products of the year. The EDN Top 100 Products list
includes products ranging from components, analog ICs, software, power
sources, peripherals, processors, computers and many other categories
of electronic equipment.
"We are honored to be selected as one of the top 100 products by a
premier electronics trade magazine," said Dr. Ajoy Bose, CEO and
President of Atrenta Inc. "This recognition by EDN's editorial staff
is further validation of SpyGlass' value in solving a major challenge
in designing complex SoCs. Over 50 of the world's leading electronics
companies are using SpyGlass to catch complex design problems and
process flow issues early in the design cycle, where those issues can
be addressed quickly, saving expensive revisions later."
About Atrenta
Atrenta offers a new approach in accelerating the design of
complex SoCs, ASICs, and FPGAs through predictive analysis. Its
award-winning SpyGlass software is the first tool that performs
detailed structural analysis on register-transfer-level Verilog and
VHDL code in order to check for complex problems, which include coding
styles, RTL-handoff, design re-use, clock/reset requirements, DFT 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, Motorola,
National Semiconductor, Nortel, Olympus, and Toshiba, who are using
SpyGlass to achieve shorter overall design cycles, increased design
productivity and lower costs. Atrenta was selected by Venture Reporter
as one of the top 100 venture-backed companies for 2002 and SpyGlass
received the "LSI Design of The Year 2002" award by Japan's
Semiconductor Industry News.
Atrenta is headquartered in San Jose, California, with European
offices in England and France, 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 registered trademarks of Atrenta Inc. All
other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
CONTACT: Atrenta PR Counsel
Paula Jones, 650/967-3711
paula@newiic.com
or
Atrenta
Mona Singh, 408/467-4248
mona@atrenta.com
