Innologic Systems joins Novas' harmony program to deliver comprehensive verification offering to SoC designers

ESP-CV with Debussy provides complete functional verification coverage for complex SoC designs

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 11, 2003 - InnoLogic Systems, Inc., a provider of functional verification solutions for full custom silicon design implementations, and Novas Software Inc., a leader in debug systems for complex chip designs, today announced that InnoLogic has joined Novas' Harmony partner program. The two companies have had a long-standing relationship in that users of InnoLogic's ESP-CV, a product that verifies the functional equivalence between behavioral or RTL models and the SPICE-level netlist of full custom designs, can use Novas' Debussy® Debug System to investigate the causes when these models do not match. InnoLogic 's joining Novas' Harmony program further strengthens the existing relationship between the two companies and improves the quality of the interoperability and support that the two companies provide for their mutual customers.

Dian Yang, president and CEO for InnoLogic noted, "InnoLogic is focused on solving the verification challenges presented by the increasing amount of full custom silicon content in SoC designs as well as providing verification solutions that help our customers increase the overall quality of their designs. As a result, we are always looking for partner opportunities that will enhance our product offerings. InnoLogic's ESP-CV enables designers to achieve complete functional verification coverage of embedded memories and other full custom components within SoC designs. And, Novas' Debussy debug system aids designers in resolving overall design errors. The combination of our two companies' product solutions gives our customers a significant edge in the overall quality and confidence of their SoC products."

Scott Sandler, president and CEO of Novas stated, "The increasing complexity and growing custom silicon content of today's SoC designs makes them very difficult to understand and leads to very challenging verification issues. Novas focuses on cutting debug time by making it easier for engineers to find the causes of design behavior. Novas is committed to partnering with companies that are on the leading edge of addressing these issues. InnoLogic's ESP-CV offering is one of the leading solutions for verifying the custom silicon content in SoC designs. We believe enhanced interoperability between ESP-CV and Debussy delivers a more productive verification experience for our shared customer base."

Engineers designing full custom circuits such as SRAM, DRAM, Flash, and Cache use ESP-CV to verify the functional equivalence of the implementation SPICE netlist and the behavioral model used for simulation. When a mismatch is found between these two independently generated models, a counter example is generated for debugging. With the interoperability between Novas' Debussy Debug System and InnoLogic's ESP-CV, designers can quickly isolate errors and identify the source of the problem. The integration of these products further increases the productivity of full custom design verification.

About ESP-CV
InnoLogic Systems' ESP-CV product verifies the functional equivalency of full custom designs across various levels of abstraction. The design representations may be in Verilog behavioral, RTL, UDPs, gates, transistor-level or SPICE netlist. If a difference is found during the equivalence checking process, ESP-CV produces a shallow set of binary vectors that depicts the differences. These vectors can then be used directly in the existing simulation environment during the debug process to determine the root cause of the difference. ESP-CV provides transistor-level accuracy by automatically modeling parasitic effects using an RC model based on the transistor length, width, and process technology.

About Novas
Novas is the pioneer of knowledge-based debug systems that reduce the functional verification costs for complex IC designs. Building upon the strength of its market-leading Debussy® Debug System, Novas' VerdiÔ Behavior-Based Debug System improves the efficiency of designers in the system-on-chip era with advanced design exploration and debug capabilities. These allow design teams to better understand and analyze complex or unfamiliar design behavior, and cut by half or more the time it takes to locate, isolate and understand the root causes of design problems. There are more than 10,000 Novas systems in use today at customer sites worldwide. Novas is headquartered in San Jose, Calif. with offices in Europe, Japan and Asia-Pacific. For more information visit www.novas.com or send email to info@novas.com

About InnoLogic Systems, Inc.
InnoLogic Systems, Inc. helps designers gain confidence in the quality of design and reduces overall verification cost by offering functional verification solutions for full custom silicon implementations. Based on patented symbolic simulation and transistor-level formal analysis technologies, InnoLogic's products provide complete functional verification coverage with accurate representation of circuit-level characteristics for full custom design blocks contained within high performance SOC designs. The San Jose-based company has customers throughout the world in major market segments including semiconductor, microprocessor, and networking. For additional information, visit www.innologic-systems.com or call 408-432-6188.

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