Real Intent Introduces Verification Service Partners Program

CMOSchips, eInfochips and Intrinsix, Offer Verix Formal Functional Verification Services

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 8, 2002   ––   Real Intent, an EDA company in the assertion-based formal verification market, announced today that it has established a Verification Service Partner Program, a 3rd party program for the Company's formal functional verification service partners. CMOSchips, eInfochips and Intrinsix are among the first to join.

All three companies are experienced verification service providers and have used Real Intent's Verix™ family of formal functional verification products and are fully trained and capable of providing Verix formal functional verification services to their customers.

According to Dr. Prakash Narain, Real Intent's President and CEO, "Assertion-based formal verification is a key component in the verification of ASIC designs. Our service program addresses the needs of our customers with a worldwide network of verification service partners, who can help them achieve better verification productivity."

Intrinsix Corp. is the largest independent electronic product design outsourcing company. Intrinsix offers Verix formal functional verification expertise and services as well as simulation-based functional verification expertise and services. James M. Lee, Technical Manager for the Intrinsix Silicon Valley design center remarked, "Verix has proven to be valuable for early detection of bugs prior to simulation and synthesis. We see immediate benefits from its automatic assertion generation and analysis capabilities. With it, verification coverage is incrementally improved by adding user-defined assertions."

"Adding Verix to our suite of verification tools greatly strengthens our verification services capabilities. As a provider for Silicon Intellectual Property and Verification IP, we have considerable experience with verifying complex ASICs, IP, Cores, system-on-chip and custom ICs and see a tremendous benefit to using Verix. It enables us to verify correct IP usage by embedding assertions within the IP," noted, Shailesh Thakkar, Project Manager at eInfochips. "This reduces our support cost and contributes to the successful deployment of our IP in customer designs. With assertion standardization, the assertions embedded in our IP can be used by a wide range of verification tools."

Namrata Patnaik, Vice President of Business Development at CMOSchips noted, "Today's complex designs require a combination of simulation and formal verification techniques to achieve effective verification. As a leading Design Center and turnkey provider of design and verification services, we need to deliver designs with the highest confidence that they meet the design requirements. Verix is critical to achieving our high quality goals and is part of our design methodology."

About CMOSchips
CMOSchips, Inc. enables Technology Realization™ through its world-class semiconductor and systems design centers by providing: complete SOC/ASIC & FPGA expertise; application specific design & verification methodology; IP cores; board level design, integration and test firmware and network management software development. To date, CMOSchips has successfully completed over 200 projects for customers in networking, wireless, communications, and other industries. CMOSchips has offices in Santa Clara, Austin, Boston and Bangalore. CMOSchips US headquarters is located at 2380 Owen Street, Santa Clara, CA 95054, tel.: (408) 727-8800, fax: (408) 988-4333, email: info@cmoschips.com, web: http://www.cmoschips.com.

About eInfochips
eInfochips has a large team of engineers with a considerable amount of experience in designing and verifying complex ASICs, IP, Cores, system-on-chip and custom ICs. The team has vast exposure to EDA tools and HDL-based verification methodologies, reusable designs and Verification IP/Components. The Company delivers high-quality services that enable customers to compete effectively in their target markets and to widen their client base by dramatically reducing the time-to-verify. In addition, the engineering teams in India as well as in USA have the comprehensive knowledge of seeing a chip all the way through to tape out.  eInfochips helps clients tightly integrate RTL/Gate level phases with the place and route phase keeping in mind issues such as budgeting for timing at the RTL level and keeping synthesized logic place & route friendly.

eInfochips has chosen the route of partnership with cutting edge technology companies to meet the ever-emerging needs of our design and verification services customers. The eInfochips US office is located at 1628, Quail Drive, Milpitas, CA 95035, Tel: 408-263- 2505. eInfochips also has a design center in India. For more information on eInfochips visit http://www.einfochips.com or write to info@einfochips.com.

About Intrinsix
Intrinsix Corp. is the largest independent Electronic Product Design Outsourcing company. Intrinsix' highly experienced engineers architect, design and verify complex electronic systems. These systems are most often System on Chip (SoC) designs in networking, wireless and digital media applications. As a result of the demanding feature and time-to-market characteristics of these applications, Intrinsix rapidly delivers its SoC hardware and deeply embedded software to customers by using state of the art co-design and co-verification techniques. Intrinsix provides comprehensive ASIC and SoC; architecting, design, simulation, synthesis, verification and test services to leading electronics companies that have devices produced by semiconductor vendors such as Texas Instruments, IBM, Agere, LSI, Philips/VLSI, Infineon, Toshiba, NEC, Fujitsu and Samsung among others. The company's lengthy list of successful customers and partners attests to the high quality of its engineering and results-oriented teamwork. Intrinsix has a network of Design Centers strategically located throughout North America, Europe and the Middle East. Intrinsix Corporation headquarters are at 33 Lyman Street, Westboro, MA 01581, Tel: (508) 836-4100, Fax (508) 836-4222, http://www.intrinsix.com.

About Real Intent
Real Intent, headquartered in San Jose, California, offers award-winning Verix formal functional verification products for electronic design. These products give users the capability of comprehensively verifying designs early and significantly reduce the cost of verifying integrated circuits, electronic systems and systems on a chip. Real Intent is located at 3910 Freedom Circle, Suite 102A, Santa Clara, CA 95054, tel.: (408) 982-5444, fax: (408) 982-5443, email: info@realintent.com, web: http://www.realintent.com.
 

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