Tharas Systems Appoints ChipDev Solutions as Its Distributor In France; Partnership to Meet Growing Demand for Accelerated Functional Verification Solution
MUNICH, Germany—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 7, 2006—
Tharas Systems, Inc., a leading provider of
high-performance, hardware-assisted verification solutions announced
today that ChipDev Solutions based in Paris will provide local sales
and support to companies that design complex ASICs and systems using
the Hammer(R) family of advanced verification solutions.
"We are pleased to appoint ChipDev Solutions as our representative
in France," said Rahm Shastry, president and CEO of Tharas Systems. "I
am sure that their domain knowledge of the EDA industry as well as the
functional verification market, combined with their deep understanding
of the customer needs is a key asset to proliferate the Hammer
solution in France."
"Increasingly we have been asked by leading-edge customers in
France to assist with their functional verification challenge. We find
the Hammer family of accelerated verification products offers the best
price-performance solution in the market for the high-end chip and
system design companies. We look forward to serving the French market
with the Tharas solutions," commented Olivier Bolon, General Manager
of ChipDev Solutions, SARL.
About Tharas Systems
Tharas Systems develops and markets design verification solutions
that lead to a significant shortening of the overall verification
cycle of complex integrated circuits and electronic systems design.
The pay off is a demonstrable reduction in time-to-market due to
enhanced verification productivity. The newly introduced Hammer(R)
S-Class and M-Class product families incorporate a patented,
multi-core, custom-processor hardware assisted engine developed by
Tharas that works in conjunction with popular Verilog and VHDL-based
software simulators from Synopsys (NASDAQ - SNPS), Cadence Design
(NYSE- CDN), and Mentor Graphics (NASDAQ - MENT). The Hammer solution
delivers fast compile and accelerated performance without sacrificing
ease-of-use and debugging capabilities. Customer installations span
the networking, computers, communications and graphics industries.
Founded in 1998, Tharas is privately held with corporate
headquarters located in Santa Clara, California, and regional sales
and support offices in North America and Japan. Tharas products are
distributed through channel partners in Europe, India and Korea. For
more information, see the company website, http://www.tharas.com.
About ChipDev Solutions, SARL
ChipDev Solutions, SARL, based in Paris, brings expertise in
front-end and back-end implementation and verification flows for
complex ASIC and SoC implementation. Focused on EDA tools distribution
and services for the European market, with previous experience
supporting Synopsys and Magma, ChipDev's team helps establish sales
and technical support in this region. For more information visit
www.ChipDev.com or call +33 (0) 1 41 44 20 65.
Hammer(R) is a trademark of Tharas Systems Inc. Tharas
acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other
organizations for their respective products and services.
Contact:
Tharas Systems, Inc.
Connie Nelson, 408-855-3211
Email Contact
or
ChipDev Solutions, SARL
Olivier Bolon, +33 (0) 1 41 44 20 65
Email Contact
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