What Customers Say...
"The Verdi system will be provided to start-up
information technology (IT) development enterprises in Korea to
accelerate functional verification for system-on-chip (SoC) and
ASIC designs."
Ho Gil Cho
EDA Supporting Leader, KIPA
"The Company made the decision early on to
purchase Novas' Verdi too- despite the fact that in its
start-up days, we were strapped for cash. Management felt it
was critical and sound business investment. The tool was
selected specifically for its ease of use and because there was
such a large buy-in from the design community. There was great
value to the company in being able to cut design time with
effecient debug strategy."
Bob Dunnigan
Design Service
Manager, SigmaTel
"Novas Verdi system provides the ability to
quickly trace and analyze the causes of complex DFT, 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."
Joe Reynick
Director of DFT and EDA
Solution, eSilicon
"Our teams work on extremely complex designs with advanced
process technologies, often involing very large gate counts and
significant amounts of third-party IP. These factors increase
the magnitude of the verification challenge and impose
additional time and cost constraints on our engineering
efforts. With Verdi system, we are able to implement a much
more effective, automated debug methodology for finding
problems faster and earlier in the development cycle."
Shigenori Imazato
VP of Engineering, Toshiba America Electronic
Components
"I was lucky enough to see a demo of Verdi and
was impressed with its features. Frankly, after having used it
now for awhile, it's difficult to see how powerful it really is
just from the demo."
John Coates
VLSI Designer, Entropic
Communications
"Verdi was pivotal in accomplishing our design
goals. It was a tool that we had to have. It wasn't an
option. We could have found all the errors given enough
time. But, with Verdi we came to resolution very quickly, which
helped us stay on schedule."
Joel Page
IC Design Manager, D2Audio
"Powerful debug solutions that operate at the transaction level
are a critical component of our overall system methodology. The
Novas system-level debug solution incorporates advanced
transaction analysis capability built on top of their highly
effective Verdi debug platform, enabling a significant
acceleration in bug resolution within the most complex of
designs."
Antoine
Perrin
SoC Analysis and Debug Project Leader,
STMicroelectronics
"We recently switched over to Verdi, and designers find the
behavior-based approach and flow graphs allow them to cut
through the debug process faster. The intuitive GUI also helps
them to understand unfamiliar design elements. We have
successfully deployed Verdi in our design environment at ESS,
and have a pipeline full of projects to use it on."
Irwan Sie
Director of IC Design, ESS
"ATI's designs are huge and complex, and during the design
phase we never have a lack of failing tests. Verdi allows us to
speed up the debug phase at the end of the validation design
cycle. It has addressed those nasty chain-of-events bugs that
used to take days to understand and resolve, reducing the time
to a couple of hours."
Frank Hering
Director of VLSI for ATI.
"We initially applied Debussy exclusively to debugging of the
most complex designs for our digital consumer LSIs. In these
debugging processes, Debussy has shown a high return on
investment, saving up to 50 percent in debug time. Based on
these results, we've selected Debussy as the standard debug
system in order to introduce the Debussy advantage to other
designs."
Kenichi Murawaki
Kazuya Yamamura
LSI Division at Sanyo Semiconductor Company
"With Novas' help, we successfully taped our first DAP/DNA-HP
chip in May 2002 and introduced the world's first
Japan-originated re-configurable processor technology that
transforms the software-to-silicon path. Because of Novas'
knowledge-based approach, our engineers were able to accelerate
their understanding of the design, and also debug much faster
than with other tools."
Jun Nakai
CEO of IP Flex
"The ability to cut debug time at both RTL and gate levels is
essential for a company with limited human resources like ours.
We believe that we could not have met the development schedule
for the DAP/DNA-HP chip without Debussy. We'll continue to use
Novas' strong line of debug products to realize faster
time-to-market for our next-generation DAP/DNA chips."
Tomomi Sato
CTO of IP Flex
"Debussy speeds up the process of finding bugs immeasurably. We
can move between different views and quickly understand
relationships between design elements. There are so many
impressive features in the tool that let us reach into the
design - it gives us a very comprehensive view. We routinely
push the envelope in all of our designs, so we need a tool that
we can rely on. Our designers can't afford to be dealing with
bugs in the tools we use. Debussy is as stable a design tool as
you will find."
Don Primrose
Network Elements
"My company has been using Debussy from Novas for a couple of
years now. The tool can trace through both RTL and gate
netlists (we use Verilog, by the way). For gates, the tool can
draw schematics which can be probed; nets can be expanded to
show fan-in and/or fan-out cones. For RTL, the tool draws
reasonably good schematics and finite state machine diagrams.
The tool also has nice hooks into its waveform viewer."
Gene Sullivan
Analog Devices, Inc.
"We have been very satisfied with our debugging productivity
through our use of Debussy, and the new capabilities of Verdi
provide an even greater impact on reducing our debug time.
Particularly important to us as a growing company is the
ability for logic designers and design verification engineers
who are unfamiliar with portions of a design to be able to
quickly comprehend intended behavior, and thus locate errors
faster. We also see tremendous value in Verdi's exploration
function, which gives us the ability to quickly and accurately
evaluate different design options."
Raymond Tan
Brecis Communications
"With Debussy we were able to reduce our debug time, and
achieve sometimes as much as a 10 to 1 gain in productivity.
Previously we had to abstract sections of the design, block by
block, to understand how all the pieces fit together. Debussy
automatically shows us how the design pieces relate to each
other, making it easy for us to understand the big
picture."
Tim MacDonald
Equipe Communications
"At Faraday, we continue to seek new approaches to ensure we
develop best-in-class custom chips and SIP. We selected Novas'
FSDB as our standard interface format because it provides the
means to quickly exchange design information and identify any
changes that have been made. Moreover, as many of our customers
have licenses for Novas' Debussy, which is rapidly becoming the
debug system of choice for SoC designs, it makes sense to
utilize its FSDB, particularly as it's faster and more compact
than value change dump files (VCDs)."
Tim Liu
Faraday Technologies
"I don't want this to sound like a sales pitch, but I would
give up a lot of other tools before giving up Debussy."
Adam Levinthal
GeoLogic Design
"Prior to this recent agreement, Hitachi utilized Debussy on a
number of designs and experienced significant productivity
improvements. We will integrate this useful Debussy into
SOCplanner, our design environment and manufacturing solution
for system LSIs. As we continue to introduce more advanced
system LSI chips so that our customers can downsize and improve
the performance of their end products, we must ensure our
devices are defect free. Debussy helps our engineers to quickly
locate, isolate, and understand the causes of unexpected design
behavior, which in turn significantly contributes to our
success in the marketplace."
Yoshio Okamura
Hitachi, Ltd.
"We chose Debussy for its effectiveness in design space
exploration to accelerate time to market."
Tim Jordan
Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector
"We evaluated many options for debugging and selected the
Debussy system because it is the fastest way to understand the
reasons for bugs in our complex designs. Debussy works with our
simulators and gives us so many ways to look at the design that
our engineers can easily discover how to fix the problems
uncovered during verification."
Masatoshi Sou
NEC IC Microcomputer Systems
"I highly recommend Novas Debussy to anybody. We have been
using it for about 1 year now. Debussy supports tracing
connectivity in the source code window. It also will create a
"pruned" schematic that only shows the signals that you have
selected, even when those signals cross over hierarchical
boundaries. We use these features for RTL and gate-level
code."
Jeffrey Ebert
Sonics, Inc.
"The Debussy product has been designed to increase IC designer
productivity by streamlining the debugging process. We believe
that Debussy will simplify debugging through its features that
are intended to help designers quickly locate, isolate and
understand the cause of bugs. This should help assure us that
bugs are not recreated in future designs and aid in easily
removing them from existing designs."
Sunil Joshi
Sun Misrosystems