Concept Engineering and Nassda Improve Debug Of High-Performance Digital Designs; Nassda Offers Concept's Visualization Technology Through OEM Agreement
Design Automation Conference 2003
FREIBURG, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 27, 2003--Concept
Engineering, the industry leader in automatic schematic generation and
viewing technology, today announced that its visualization technology,
SpiceVision PRO, has been integrated with the CRITIC and HANEX digital
circuit analysis software from Nassda Corp. (Nasdaq:NSDA).
Nassda will sell a version of SpiceVision PRO directly to its
customers under the terms of a comprehensive original equipment
manufacturer (OEM) agreement. First product presentations will be
given in Booth 2250 at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in
Anaheim, Calif., June 2-6, 2003.
Concept Engineering's SpiceVision PRO enables designers of
high-performance digital circuits to visualize critical paths and
clock networks analyzed by Nassda software. This visualization
technology improves productivity by allowing designers to easily
understand the impact of their design decisions on the timing behavior
of critical paths.
"Concept Engineering's visualization technology provides the
speed, capacity, and ease-of-use that we were seeking for our digital
timing analysis solutions," said Nassda CEO Sang Wang. "SpiceVision
PRO's interactivity, efficient database, and fast speed combined with
Nassda's high-performance timing analyzers will allow designers to
accurately visualize analysis output and quickly debug critical paths
in their designs."
"Nassda has high standards for circuit capacity and execution
speed for the full-chip verification of complex ICs," said Gerhard
Angst, president and CEO of Concept Engineering. "We invested
considerable resources to develop advanced technology for the
visualization of complex transistor-level and gate-level circuit
structures, and are very pleased that Nassda has chosen to integrate
our technology into its products. We've seen an overwhelming
acceptance of our SpiceVision product family and we are glad that we
can work with Nassda to improve debug of high-performance digital
designs."
SpiceVision PRO produces clean, easy-to-read transistor-level
schematics from complex SPICE descriptions, helps engineers visualize
the parasitic effects within complex nanometer designs, and reduces
the design and debug time for engineers who work at the SPICE netlist
level. Using Concept Engineering's transistor-level schematic engine,
SpiceVision PRO generates schematics from pure SPICE connectivity
information.
About Nassda
Nassda Corp. (Nasdaq:NSDA) is a leading provider of full-chip
circuit verification software for complex nanometer semiconductors.
With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., the company develops and
markets simulation and analysis solutions for advanced ICs, especially
for analog, memory, high-performance digital and mixed-signal SoC
designs. Nassda's products enable first silicon success and improve
product quality and production yield for its consumer, communication,
computer and memory customers. The company has sales and distribution
offices throughout the world. For more information about Nassda,
visit the company's Web site at http://www.nassda.com.
About Concept Engineering
Concept Engineering, a privately held company based in Freiburg,
Germany, was founded in 1990 to develop and market innovative
schematic generation and viewing technology for use with logic
synthesis, verification, test automation and physical design tools.
The company's customers are primarily original equipment EDA tool
manufacturers (OEMs), in-house CAD tool developers and semiconductor
companies. For more information, see http://www.concept.de.
Nassda is a registered trademark of Nassda Corp. SpiceVision PRO
is a trademark of Concept Engineering. All other trademarks and
registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
CONTACT: Concept Engineering
Gerhard Angst, +49-761-47094-0
gerhard@concept.de
or
Cayenne Communication
Michelle Clancy, 252/940-0981
michelle.clancy@cayennecom.com
