Enables Assertion Visualization and Debug

Los Altos, Calif. February 20, 2006—JEDA Technologies today announced that they have partnered with Novas Software to integrate the Novas Verdi™ Automated Debug System and JEDA’s recently released NSCa native SystemC assertion-based verification system. 

“JEDA’s NSCa system includes a powerful assertion IDE (integrated development environment).  Coupling our solution with Verdi’s unique way to view the assertions and assertion results in a graphical environment provides our customers with a strong debug environment.   We are excited to provide this integration to our customers,” said Eugene Zhang, President and CEO of Jeda Technologies.

“Novas provides a powerful SystemC debug solution, and the integration with NSCa extends our capabilities.  By linking Verdi with JEDA’s assertion-based verification tools, users can debug the results of their NSCa assertions together with their SystemC and NSCa source code in a single, unified environment”, said Scott Sandler, President and CEO of Novas.

About NSCa

NSCa is the first member of JEDA’s new family of Native SystemC assertion-based verification automation tools. NSCa aims at System Level verification and removes the restrictions of RTL-based assertion approaches for SystemC.  NSCa easily integrates into an existing SystemC environment. Users have a choice to write their assertion checks in one of two ways:  Using the NSCa code, a concise and compact assertions syntax that extends C++, or by directly calling the NSCa assertion macro functions inside their SystemC code.

About Verdi

Verdi is a complete mixed-language debug system that automates the process of understanding how complex IC and SoC 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 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 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 in their products today. 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.

About JEDA Technologies

JEDA Technologies, founded in 2002, is the “System-Driven Verification Automation Company” focused on providing automation tools for SystemC based designs.  The founding team invented Vera when they were at Sun Microsystems.  The company is based in Los Altos, California with a development center in Beijing China. For more information, please visit www.jedatechnologies.com.