SystemVerilog NOW! Technical Seminars to Be Offered across North America
Industry Leaders Axis Systems, Mentor Graphics, Novas Software and
Synopsys to Sponsor Technical Sessions to Demonstrate Immediate
Benefits to Using SystemVerilog
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 23, 2003--
Four leaders in advanced design and verification technologies --
Axis Systems, Mentor Graphics (Nasdaq:MENT), Novas Software and
Synopsys (Nasdaq:SNPS), with the support of HP's platform technology
-- are sponsoring a free SystemVerilog technical seminar and product
demonstrations in four North American locations beginning October 8,
2003. Each seminar will be presented by noted Verilog design expert
Cliff Cummings, president of Sunburst Design, Inc.
The SystemVerilog NOW! technical seminars will provide design and
verification engineers with practical and up-to-date information about
SystemVerilog's capabilities and demonstrate how they translate into
increased productivity and silicon success using design and
verification tools that support SystemVerilog today.
"The power of Axis' RCC (ReConfigurable Computing) technology is
demonstrated again with our ability to support SystemVerilog," said
Steve Wang, co-founder, Axis Systems. "Based on customer demand, Axis
will provide the ability to leverage SystemVerilog constructs to
accelerate testbench and assertions in our foremost Design Team
Emulation products."
"The single largest design bottleneck electronics designers face
today is design verification. Mentor Graphics has a strong history of
supporting open and public standards which permit design teams to
craft methodologies that utilize a broad range of verification
solutions to solve this critical issue," said Robert Hum, vice
president and general manager of Mentor's Design Verification and Test
division. "SystemVerilog, an emerging open and public standard, offers
a comprehensive foundation to improve the overall verification process
to help alleviate issues with design complexity for the Verilog user."
"SystemVerilog holds great promise for methodology improvement
across a range of applications," said Scott Sandler, President & CEO,
Novas Software, Inc. "Driven by our customers requests for a universal
debug platform for design, testbench and assertion languages, Novas
has extended its debug automation technology to support SystemVerilog
models, allowing for the fast detection and repair of complex issues
in designs that leverage these powerful language capabilities."
"Synopsys is delivering a unified design and verification platform
based on SystemVerilog to enable a comprehensive
design-for-verification methodology, leveraging SystemVerilog's
advanced language capabilities for more concise RTL design and
comprehensive assertions, and testbench features for streamlined
verification," said Manoj Gandhi, senior vice president and general
manager, Verification Group at Synopsys. "The SystemVerilog standard
offers both the right technology and the broad industry acceptance
needed to accelerate design and verification processes, while offering
greater certainty of silicon success."
Verilog language extensions will be presented in a
designer-centric fashion by Cliff Cummings, one of the world's leading
Verilog experts. This highly technical event will demonstrate how
SystemVerilog can be practically used with immediate benefit to
improve design engineering productivity, speed verification and
deliver smarter verification.
Seminar Schedule and Locations
The SystemVerilog NOW! technical seminar dates and locations are:
October 8 - Austin, Texas
October 22 - Santa Clara, California
October 29 - Boston, Massachusetts
November 12 - Ottawa, Canada
To register for the SystemVerilog NOW! technical seminar, please
visit http://www.systemverilognow.com.
About SystemVerilog
SystemVerilog, the first hardware description and verification
language (HDVL), is an extension to the IEEE 1364-2001 Verilog HDL and
offers advanced design features to tackle the most complex
next-generation designs, provides comprehensive testbench and
assertions capabilities for integrated high performance verification
and offers a designer-friendly direct programming interface for
efficient interaction with C/C++ models, code and algorithms. For more
information about SystemVerilog, visit http://www.systemverilog.org.
About Cliff Cummings
Cliff Cummings is President of Sunburst Design, Inc., a company
that specializes in Verilog, Verilog RTL synthesis and SystemVerilog
training. Mr. Cummings is an independent consultant and recognized
Verilog expert with 21 years of ASIC, FPGA, system design and
verification experience and 11 years of Verilog, synthesis,
SystemVerilog and methodology training experience. He has co-authored
all five IEEE and Accellera, Verilog and SystemVerilog standards, and
has also presented 32 conference papers, including 13 that were voted
"Best Paper." Mr. Cummings holds a BSEE from Brigham Young University
and an MSEE from Oregon State University. Mr. Cummings can be
contacted at 14314 SW Allen Blvd., PMB 501, Beaverton, OR 97005;
503-641-8446 or cliffc@sunburst-design.com.
About Axis Systems
Axis Systems, Inc., offers high-performance verification platforms
for the hardware and software development of complex electronic system
and system-on-a-chip designs. Axis' products help increase confidence
in new designs, improve overall verification productivity and shorten
time to market. On a single platform and with one design database,
Axis' patented ReConfigurable Computing (RCC) technology provides
software simulation, accelerated simulation, system emulation and
hardware/software co-verification. Customers include the world's
leading networking and multimedia companies. Axis is headquartered at
209 E. Java Drive, Sunnyvale, CA 94089. To learn more about Axis,
visit www.axissystems.com.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (Nasdaq: MENT) is a world leader in
electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products,
consulting services and award-winning support of the world's most
successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in
1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of about
$650 million and employs approximately 3,500 people worldwide.
Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road,
Wilsonville, Oregon 97070-7777; Silicon Valley headquarters are
located at 1001 Ridder Park Drive, San Jose, California 95131-2314.
World Wide Web: http://www.mentor.com.
About Novas Software
Novas Software, Inc. is the pioneer of debug systems that reduce
the functional verification costs for complex IC designs. Building
upon the strength of its market-leading Debussy(R) Debug System,
Novas' Verdi(TM) Behavior-Based Debug System further improves the
efficiency of designers in the system-on-chip era with advanced design
exploration and automated debug capabilities. These allow design teams
to better understand and analyze complex or unfamiliar design
behavior, and cut by half or more the time it takes to locate, and
solve the root causes of design problems. With more than 10,000
systems in use today worldwide, Novas has for two consecutive years
received the highest ranking for customer satisfaction in a
comprehensive EDA study published by CMP. Novas is headquartered in
San Jose, Calif. with offices in Europe, Japan and Asia-Pacific. For
more information, visit www.novas.com or send email to info@novas.com.
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the world leader in electronic
design automation (EDA) software for semiconductor design. The company
delivers technology-leading semiconductor design and verification
platforms to the global electronics market, enabling the development
of complex systems-on-chips (SoCs). Synopsys also provides
intellectual property and design services to simplify the design
process and accelerate time-to-market for its customers. Synopsys is
headquartered in Mountain View, California and is located more than 60
offices throughout North America, Europe, Japan and Asia. Visit
Synopsys online at http://www.synopsys.com.
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and Xchange are trademarks of Axis Systems, Inc. Mentor Graphics is a
registered trademark of Mentor Graphics Corporation. Debussy is a
registered trademark and Verdi is a trademark of Novas Software, Inc.
Synopsys is a registered trademark of Synopsys, Inc. All other
products mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of
their respective owners.
CONTACT: Axis Systems
Lori Kate Calise, 408-716-1554
lk@axissystems.com
or
Novas Software, Inc.
Lorie Bowlby, 408-467-7871
lorie@novas.com
or
Mentor Graphics
Shawn Hiday, 503-685-7805
shawn_hiday@mentorg.com
or
Edelman PR (for Synopsys)
Sarah Seifert, 650-429-2776
sarah.seifert@edelman.com
