Sunnyvale, California –– February 7, 2006
Real Intent, Inc., the leading supplier of formal verification software for electronic design, and Novas, the leader in debug systems for complex chip designs, today announced that the companies have signed an OEM agreement to deliver highest efficiency verification solutions. Under the terms of the agreement, Real Intent has tightly integrated with the Novas Verdi™ Automated Debug System, and is providing this integration directly to customers to improve their design debug and verification. This integration combines the power of Real Intent formal analysis with Novas' leading property management and debug capabilities.
The Real Intent-Novas collaboration supercharges the entire Verix™ and PureTime™ families of formal verification solutions. Verix Implied Intent Verification, Verix Clock Intent Verification, Verix Expressed Intent Verification as well as PureTime Exception Verification make optimal use of world class RTL, schematic, and waveform views in order to deliver higher confidence to designers and verification engineers. These tools apply cutting-edge formal techniques at precise points in the electronic design flow where they can replace difficult dynamic techniques. This results in saving weeks or months in design and debug cycles for SoC designs.
“Real Intent’s formal analysis technology can significantly reduce the time and effort our customers spend on verification. Novas’ debug technology provides unparalleled visualization of complex design behavior. Coupling Real Intent’s verification products with our Verdi debug system multiplies the advantages enjoyed by our mutual customers, speeding their path to high-quality silicon,” remarked Scott Sandler, Novas president and CEO.
“Design verification is a complex task, with multiple technologies contributing to the overall result. By tightly integrating with a recognized leader in debug technology, our customers will leverage our unique and powerful formal solutions, more quickly and in a familiar environment. By partnering with Novas, we are now able to offer a superior and complete solution to improve the verification efficiency,” added Dr. Prakash Narain, President and CEO, Real Intent.
About Novas Debug Software
Novas provides 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 Real Intent Software
Real Intent extends breakthrough formal technology to critical problems encountered by design and verification teams worldwide. Real Intent's software dramatically improves the functional verification efficiency of leading edge application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), systems-on-chip (SOCs), and Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Over 30 major electronics design houses, including Sun Microsystems, ATI, Avago Technologies, nVidia, and NEC Electronics, use Real Intent software.
Real Intent, a privately-held Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company, is headquartered at 505 North Mathilda Avenue, Suite 210, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, phone: (408) 830-0700 fax: (408) 737-1962, web: www.realintent.com, e-mail: info@realintent.com.
Availability
The Novas Verdi system from Real Intent, is a separately priced option to Verix and PureTime, and is shipping today.
About Real Intent Solutions:
The Verix and PureTime families are state-of-the-art verification software, which utilize the power of formal analysis to verify design assertions and either prove them correct or detect bugs that are hard to find. Verix and PureTime can often detect defects entirely missed with other Register Transfer Level (RTL) verification techniques. The Convergence Engine™ with Adaptive Orchestration™ and 2-Dimensional Compression™ forms the keystone of the industry's largest formal capacity and proof capability. Verix Expressed Intent Verification (formal assertion- based verification), Verix Clock Intent Verification (hazard detection), Verix Implied Intent Verification (automatic formal design verification), and PureTime™ (timing exception verification) together constitute what we call “Formal from Spec to Sign-off”.
About Real Intent:
Real Intent is extending breakthrough formal technology to critical problems encountered by design and verification teams worldwide. Real Intent’s products dramatically improve the functional verification efficiency of leading edge application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), system-on-chip (SOC), and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) devices. Over 30 major electronics design houses, including Sun Microsystems, ATI, Avago Technologies, nVidia, and NEC Electronics, use Real Intent software.
Founded in 1999, Real Intent is a privately-held Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company headquartered at 505 North Mathilda Avenue, Suite 210, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, phone: (408) 830-0700 fax: (408) 737-1962, web: www.realintent.com, e-mail: info@realintent.com
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 www.novas.com or email info@novas.com.
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Founded in 1999, Real Intent is a privately held Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. For further information, please visit www.realintent.com.
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