Atrenta Teams Up With VSI Alliance to Develop an Automated Method to Validate IP Quality; SpyGlass Will Ensure High Quality IP Through QIP Compliance
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—May 10, 2004—
Atrenta(R) Inc., the Predictive Analysis Company,
announced it has joined the Virtual Socket Interface Alliance (VSIA),
the SoC, IP, and reuse standards group driving system chip
productivity. Atrenta is partnering with VSIA's Quality IP (QIP)
development working group to implement and automate the QIP rules,
guidelines and documentation in Atrenta's award-winning SpyGlass(R)
Predictive Analyzer product. This will enable ASIC and SoC designers
to perform in-depth structural analysis on Verilog and VHDL Register
Transfer Level (RTL) descriptions as well as assess the quality of the
IP and ensure compliance with best practices and IP reuse guidelines
based on the QIP rules. Additionally, IP providers will be able to use
SpyGlass to quickly create QIP compliant IP and IP integrators will be
able to use SpyGlass to quickly verify the incoming IP for QIP
compliance.
"It is imperative that there be a standard quality assurance
process that measures and evaluates the quality of silicon IP against
a checklist of critical issues," said Bill Billowitch, IP design reuse
and development manager at Agere Systems and a VSIA board member. "We
are very pleased that Atrenta has joined VSIA in order to work towards
building the QIP rules directly into the SpyGlass product, thereby
providing an automated way for QIP compliance checking. This is a
major step in VSIA's efforts to bring the best design techniques in
the industry to the design community worldwide."
"The importance of the IP Quality development working group is
demonstrated by leaders such as Atrenta who are joining VSIA to both
influence and implement the QIP metric," said Michael Kaskowitz, VSIA
president. "We believe that Atrenta's market leadership and technical
expertise will benefit our membership base and we look forward to
working with them."
"There has been a growing need for an industry standard to ensure
high-quality IP and common metrics that both the IP provider and the
IP integrator can use," stated John Rizzo, vice president of marketing
at Atrenta. "VSIA has developed QIP to address this issue, but until
now this standard has been only a written document with no method to
automatically check compliance. Atrenta will now automate this
checklist and provide in-depth diagnostics during RTL development to
help both the IP providers and IP integrators to meet requirements
quickly and easily."
About VSI Alliance
The VSI Alliance is an open, international organization that
includes representatives from all segments of the SoC industry: System
houses, Semiconductor vendors, Electronic Design Automation companies,
and Intellectual Property providers. VSIA's vision is to dramatically
improve the productivity of SoC development by specifying open
standards and specifications that facilitate the integration of
software and hardware Virtual Components from multiple sources. Many
companies have adopted the use of VSIA specifications, standards and
documents. VSIA has wide industry participation with more than 100
member companies from around the world. Membership is open to any
company with an interest in the development and promotion of open
standards used in the design of System-on-Chip. For more information,
visit the VSIA web site at www.vsi.org, or e-mail to info@vsi.org.
About Atrenta
Atrenta delivers predictive analysis solutions to the world's
leading electronics companies, including eight of the top ten
semiconductor companies. Its pioneering and award-winning SpyGlass
Predictive Analysis tools accelerate the design of SoCs, ASICs, and
FPGAs by detecting complex chip design problems that are not easily
identified with conventional verification methods. SpyGlass has been
recognized through several distinguished awards, including EDN
magazine's Top 100 products and "LSI Design of the Year" award by
Japan's Semiconductor Industry News. Most recently, SpyGlass
Constraints was named as an EDN Innovation Awards finalist for 2004.
Atrenta was also chosen by Venture Reporter as one of the top 100
venture-backed companies, and named by AlwaysOn as one of the Top 100
private companies.
Atrenta, with headquarters in San Jose, Calif., employs over 140
personnel worldwide. It has European offices in England and France, a
research and development center in India, and sales and support
distributors in Europe, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and
Taiwan. For further information, visit the Atrenta website at
www.atrenta.com, email moreinfo@atrenta.com, or call 408-453-3333.
Atrenta and SpyGlass are registered trademarks of Atrenta Inc. The
VSI Alliance is a trademark of the Virtual Socket Interface Alliance.
All other trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Contact:
Atrenta
Mona Singh, 408-467-4248
mona@atrenta.com
or
New Ideas in Communications for Atrenta
Paula Jones, 650-967-3711
paula@newiic.com
