Silicon Navigator Licenses Concept Engineering's Schematic Visualization Software
FREIBURG, Germany—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 4, 2004—
Concept Engineering today announced a worldwide OEM
license agreement with Silicon Navigator Corp. to bundle Concept
Engineering's NlviewQT Widget, a Qt-based visual debugging software
engine, into Silicon Navigator's OpenAccess technology for integrated
circuit (IC) timing and placement optimization. Concept's Nlview
engine is the industry-standard schematic generation, viewing and
debugging software for electronic design automation (EDA) tool
developers who develop graphical user interfaces in C++ and use the Qt
GUI development kit.
Silicon Navigator Corp. is the first startup to embrace OpenAccess
as its database, and the company is developing components and
applications based on OpenAccess. After extensive evaluations, the
company selected Concept Engineering as it primary partner for
visualization of netlists and timing results using the NlviewQT Widget
directly interfaced to the OpenAccess database. Visualization
components provide the path to incremental analysis and debug for
OpenAccess flows. Silicon Navigator plans to demo the integration at
the 41st Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Diego, Calif., June
7-11, in the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) booth.
"Our visualization technology integrates nicely with OpenAccess as
an advanced infrastructure for next-generation designs," said Gerhard
Angst, president and CEO of Concept Engineering. "We are pleased that
our products helped Silicon Navigator quickly add visual debugging
technology into their new products."
Product demonstrations for the Nlview Widget family will be given
at DAC in the Concept Engineering booth.
About Nlview Widgets
The Nlview Widget family provides a broad range of components for
GUI development -- Qt, Java, Tcl/Tk, MFC and Perl/TK -- for automatic
schematic generation, viewing and debugging at all design levels:
transistor, gate, block, register-transfer and system. Nlview Widgets
relieve EDA tool designers of the tedium and productivity loss of
having to develop their own schematic generation software by providing
a set of robust and flexible software components for automated
schematic generation and viewing. By adopting Nlview Widgets,
developers can quickly realize GUIs for EDA products with shorter
design cycles and lower development and maintenance costs.
About Concept Engineering
Concept Engineering is a privately held company based in Freiburg,
Germany, 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.
About Silicon Navigator
Silicon Navigator Corp. is a privately funded company based in
Cupertino, California. The company was started by EDA veterans J.
George Janac, founder of HLD Systems, who serves as CEO; and James E.
Solomon, founder of Cadence Design Systems, who serves as Chairman.
The company has not yet announced products but is a member and strong
supporter of the OpenAccess coalition, developing components around
its database core. For more information, see
http://www.sinavigator.com.
Contact:
Concept Engineering
Gerhard Angst, +49-761-47094-0
gerhard@concept.de
or
Cayenne Communication LLC
Michelle Clancy, 252-940-0981
michelle.clancy@cayennecom.com
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