Press Release
Date: July 17th, 2006
Source: Novas
Novas Siloti Visibility Enhancement Solutions Win Product of the Year Award from Electronique Magazine
Novas new Siloti product line reinforces debug leader’s
track record of technology excellence and innovation
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 17, 2006 — Novas Software, Inc., the leader in debug systems for complex chip designs, today announced that its Siloti™ family of Visibility Enhancement (VE) products was named product of the year by Electronique Magazine (France). Awards were presented at an informal ceremony with winning products featured in the June 2006 issue of the well-known electronics publication. Novas’ Siloti VE family won in the electronic design automation (EDA) category.
Electronique magazine’s Annual Award Program recognizes the most innovative products across a variety of categories, including components, processors and memories, intellectual property, FPGA, EDA, embedded systems and others. Editors from the publication selected 50 finalists among products introduced over the 12-month period from May 2005 to May 2006. A panel of users and industry experts then selected the top product in each of 11 different categories. Recipients of the 2006 awards were chosen based on innovation, use of new technology, customer benefits and market competitiveness.
“Our Siloti family is breaking new ground with visibility enhancement technologies that cut verification overhead to get chips through late stage functional verification and into production faster,” said Scott Sandler, president and CEO of Novas. “We’re very pleased with the reception these products have received in the marketplace, and really appreciate this award.”
Siloti Visibility Enhancement Products
Novas’ Siloti VE products transform verification methodologies by eliminating the overhead associated with dumping data for all the signals in a design. Siloti products provide full visibility of internal signals of complex IC and system-on-chip (SoC) behavior by identifying the minimal set of signals for dumping, generating the rest of the signal data “on-the-fly”, and correlating gate-level results to the RTL source. The Siloti SimVE™ and SilVE™ products improve the visibility of internal signal activity during full-chip regression simulation, emulation and first-silicon prototyping with minimal impact on verification performance. By working with Design-for-Debug techniques, Siloti also makes silicon debug similar to and as easy as RTL simulation debug. The net result is greater verification productivity and predictability with reduced costs and faster time to first silicon and volume production.
About Electronique
Electronique is a monthly publication and is the only French-language magazine that brings technological, practical, verified, and directly useful information to design engineers. Electronique is a magazine full of essential information for design engineers including: reviews of the development and applications of main innovations and new techniques in all electronic sectors, examples of implementations completed by precise instructions, complete buyer’s guides of components and tools, as well as the life of the companies involved. Electronique was launched in 1991 and has a paid circulation that reaches 75,000 readers in France.
About Novas
Novas Software, Inc. is the leading provider of design comprehension solutions for engineers designing complex ICs, embedded systems and SoCs. Novas’ Verdi™ automated debug and Siloti visibility enhancement products dramatically accelerate the process for understanding and correcting design problems starting from system-level specification through silicon implementation. 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.