Summit Design Selected by EDN as a Finalist in Its 2003 Innovation of the Year Award Competition
BURLINGTON, MA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 16-02-2004 --
Summit Design, Inc., the world leader in
electronic system-level (ESL) design solutions and methodologies, today
announced that its System Architect™, a novel system modeling and
validation solution, was selected from a field of hundreds as a finalist
for this year's EDN Innovation Awards. This exclusive program honors truly
outstanding electronic products and technologies, as well as the creative
engineers who invent them. Nominees must have demonstrated innovation that
resulted in a significant advance in technology and/or product development
during the past twelve months.
System Architect was recognized in the "EDA: Design Exploration" category.
It provides significant strategic value for first-time success in silicon
design and implementation, allowing engineers to profile and analyze
different architecture metrics from the specification phase down to RTL
levels. Its unique set of System Architect Instrumented Functions (SAIF)
can be instrumented into HW functional code, SW execution threads, or used
to describe high-level, token-based models that only simulate system
transactions. During simulation, System Architect can analyze functional
and silicon resource tradeoffs, and profile transactions, bus utilizations,
throughput and latencies, interrupt latencies and SW distribution, cache
hit and misses, and other attributes, enabling engineers to make sound
architectural decisions.
System Architect's unique technology brings architectural analysis tools to
RTL and functional levels, and makes them available to every engineer.
In this final week of voting, EDN's worldwide audience of electronics
engineers and engineering managers will use an online ballot to select the
ultimate winner from among the finalists. To vote for System Architect as
EDN's "EDA: Design Exploration" Innovation of the Year, please visit the
EDN Access Web site at
www.edn.com/innovation, and cast your vote. Winners will be announced at a
special
ceremony on March 29, 2004 in San Francisco and will appear in print on
April 15th.
"Our Innovation program always gets an outstanding set of entries," said
EDN Editor-in-Chief Maury Wright. "With many worthy products barely missing
the cut, the chosen finalists should be very proud of their selection. I
look forward to meeting with all of the participants at the awards
banquet."
"We feel honored to receive such outstanding recognition from EDN Magazine
as to have our System Architect counted among the finalists," said Guy
Moshe, president and CEO of Summit Design. "By simulating and analyzing
the performance of various hardware and software architecture
configurations early in the design cycle, design engineers using System
Architect gain a high level of silicon optimization and confidence that the
system can handle its tasks properly -- well before significant time,
money, and resources are invested in implementation."
About EDN
EDN, the premier design magazine of the electronics industry, is published
by Reed Business Information. Headquartered in Newton, Massachusetts, EDN
serves the vital information needs of design engineers and engineering
managers worldwide. The EDN franchise includes EDN, EDN Europe, EDN Asia,
EDN China, EDN Japan, and EDN.com, the only full-content, EOEM publication
and Web site.
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, Japan, Israel, and ROA. For more information on Summit and its
products, visit http://www.sd.com.
System Architect is a trademark of Summit Design, Inc.
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respective owners
Contact:
Summit Design
Anat Zimmerman
+972.9.9708771
anatz@sd.com
ThinkBold Corporate Communications, LLC
Francine Bacchini
+1.408.267.6602
francine@thinkbold.com
