eSilicon Accelerates Design Cycles with Novas Verdi Debug System; Debug System's Ability to Navigate Large, Complex Designs Streamlines eSilicon's Custom IC Design Flows
SAN JOSE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Dec. 12, 2005—
Novas Software, Inc., the leader in debug systems for
complex chip designs, today announced that eSilicon Corporation, the
leading fabless supplier of custom integrated circuits (IC), has
adopted the Novas Verdi(TM) Automated Debug System as an integral
component of its sophisticated electronic design automation (EDA)
flow. The advanced debugging solution has been successfully deployed
by eSilicon(R) design centers to accelerate the development cycles of
multiple IC designs.
eSilicon typically receives design specifications from its
customers and manages the implementation flow, starting at either the
gate or register transfer level (RTL) and seeing the design through
Design for Test (DFT), place-and-route and manufacturing. Using the
intuitive visualization and analysis capabilities of the Verdi system,
eSilicon engineers are able to quickly navigate the details of complex
DFT architectures, and gain in-depth insight into the design intent.
This helps to keep debug iterations short and improves the overall
productivity of eSilicon's distributed engineering teams.
"The nature of our business requires that we cycle projects
through our design centers as quickly as possible. These complex chips
often come to us containing design elements from several sources and
with multiple IP cores. We then add high fault coverage DFT logic that
touches every IO, memory, and flip-flop in the design," said Joe
Reynick, director of DFT and EDA solutions at eSilicon. "Novas' Verdi
system provides the ability to quickly trace and analyze the causes of
complex DFT issues, saving valuable time and effort. The end result is
higher quality designs for hand-off to manufacturing. Since we use
tools from a variety of EDA suppliers, we also appreciate how easily
the Novas debug platform integrates into our state-of-the-art design
flows."
eSilicon, http://www.esilicon.com, has chip design and
manufacturing teams around the world performing leading-edge, custom
design work for a wide range of electronics companies, involving
products such as high-volume MP3 players, home gateways, complex
storage networks, and high-speed communications devices.
"eSilicon's design teams face many of the most difficult
challenges in IC design today. The fact that their business model is
based on working with chip specifications that are not their own
further underscores the importance of being able to comprehend
unfamiliar designs," said Scott Sandler, president and CEO at Novas.
"We are pleased to see eSilicon's engineers utilize Verdi's highly
automated debug approach to get high quality chip designs into
manufacturing faster for their impressive portfolio of customers."
Verdi is a complete mixed-language debug system that automates the
process of understanding how complex IC and system-on-chip designs
work or why they do not. It provides a universal debug platform and
common interface for accessing all the design knowledge and analysis
engines needed throughout the verification tool and methodology flow.
Engineers can analyze cause-and-effect relationships and visualize
design behavior over time to better understand and accelerate debug of
third-party intellectual property, legacy design code and new or
unfamiliar components.
About Novas
Novas Software, Inc. is the leading provider of debug systems to
companies designing complex ICs, embedded processing platforms and
SoCs. Novas' products dramatically reduce the time it takes to
understand the root causes of functional design and verification
problems from system-level specification to final silicon
implementation. Novas has been ranked first in customer satisfaction
for four 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. 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 the property of their respective owners.
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Novas Software, Inc., San Jose
Rob van Blommestein, 408-467-7872
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