Novas' Verdi Product Wins DesignVision Award for Innovation; Advanced Debug Technology Accumulates Industry Awards as it Garners Top Spot in Design Verification Category
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Feb. 7, 2005—
Novas Software, Inc., the leader in debug systems for
complex chip designs, today announced that the Novas Verdi(TM)
Automated Debug System was honored as a winner in the first annual
International Engineering Consortium (IEC) DesignVision Awards
program. In a ceremony held at the DesignCon Conference in Santa
Clara, California on February 1, 2005, DesignVision Awards were
presented to 19 recipients for 10 different categories. Novas' Verdi
product was one of two products that earned top honors in the design
verification tool category.
"As the leader in providing educational opportunities to the
electronic design industry, the IEC is proud to recognize companies
like Novas for their ingenuity and service," IEC senior director John
Janowiak said. "Based on these honorees, you can tell the spirit of
innovation that has always fueled the electronic design and
semiconductor industry is still going strong."
The IEC DesignVision Award adds to Novas' track record of
technology leadership and excellence, as well as achievements in
setting de facto standards for interoperability as recognized by the
electronic design automation (EDA) industry. These additional
achievements include multiple listings in the annual EDN Magazine Top
100 Products, selection as an EDN Innovation Finalist, and
presentation of the Tenzing Norgay EDA Interoperability Achievement
Award from Synopsys.
"Chip designers face tough challenges every day, and it's our goal
to make their lives easier by providing more and more innovation
toward automating and easing understanding of their designs. Our Verdi
product is the ideal representation of that pioneering spirit, and we
are pleased to be recognized with such a prestigious award," said
Novas president and CEO Scott Sandler. "All of the entrants in this
category are deserving products. Together, we can apply our efforts to
the never-ending design verification issues designers must deal with."
Verdi Automated Debug System
The Verdi Automated Debug System broke new ground by giving chip
designers unprecedented levels of insight and understanding into
design behavior, thus improving the efficiency and speed by which they
can find and correct design errors. It is particularly useful for
large, complex designs where there may be significant amounts of
legacy and/or unfamiliar design elements for a design team to debug.
The Verdi system uses a combination of synthesis and formal analysis
techniques to both automatically extract behavior information from
design descriptions and simulation results and automatically trace the
causes of behavior. It works seamlessly within existing design flows
and provides a control point for a complete set of design and analysis
tasks during the functional verification stage of IC design.
DesignVision Award Program
In keeping with its 60-year mission of bringing the highest
quality and most innovative forms of education to the industry, the
IEC's DesignVision Awards recognize leading-edge products and services
in the electronic design and semiconductor industries. The awards
mirror a rich IEC tradition of recognizing innovative technology in
the telecommunications field, another industry in which the IEC
actively provides educational opportunities. Recipients of the
DesignVision 2004 Awards were chosen based on innovation, uniqueness,
market impact, customer benefits and value to society.
About International Engineering Consortium
The presenter of DesignCon and the DesignVision Awards, the
International Engineering Consortium (http://www.iec.org), is a
non-profit organization dedicated to catalyzing positive growth in
several industries and their university communities. Since 1944, the
IEC, which is headquartered in Chicago, Ill., has provided
high-quality educational opportunities for industry professionals,
academics, and students. The IEC also produces publications and
handles the affairs of the Electrical and Computer Engineering
Department Heads Associations and Eta Kappa Nu, the honor society for
electrical and computer engineers.
About Novas
Novas Software, Inc. is the leading provider of robust,
tool-independent design debug systems to companies designing complex
ICs, embedded processing platforms and SoCs. Novas' products
dramatically reduce the time it takes for engineers to locate, isolate
and solve the root causes of functional design and verification
problems. Novas has been ranked first in customer satisfaction for
three consecutive years in a comprehensive EDA study published by CMP.
There are more than 12,000 Novas systems installed worldwide by over
400 companies, and 40 partners utilizing Novas technology in their
products today. Novas is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. with
offices in Europe, Japan and Asia-Pacific. For more information, visit
http://www.novas.com or email info@novas.com.
Verdi is a trademark of Novas Software, Inc. All other trademarks
or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Public Relations for Novas Software, Inc.
Wired Island, Ltd.
Laurie Stanley, 925-224-8762
laurie@wiredislandpr.com
or
Novas Software, Inc., San Jose
Rob van Blommestein, 408-467-7872
rob@novas.com
