Certess Announces Broad Adoption of Its Functional Qualification Solution by STMicroelectronics.STMicroelectronics Expands Certitude cer·ti·tude n. 1. The state of being certain; complete assurance; confidence. 2. Sureness of occurrence or result; inevitability. 3. Deployment Worldwide Through Multi-Year Agreement CAMPBELL, Calif. -- Certess, Inc., the provider of functional qualification tools for systems on a chip (SoCs) and intellectual property (IP) blocks, today announced that STMicroelectronics, one of the world's largest semiconductor manufacturers, has expanded, through a two-year commitment, its corporate wide adoption of Certitude. Certitude provides an objective measure of quality in the SoC verification environment and certifies that if a semiconductor chip design had a bug, it would be found. One of the key reasons STMicroelectronics selected Certitude for its state of the art verification flow is for its ability to ensure a high level of functional correctness and for its ease of use and simple concepts which can be quickly applied across all areas of verification. Certitude has proven to be able to find important bugs in areas that were considered fully verified ver·i·fy tr.v. ver·i·fied, ver·i·fy·ing, ver·i·fies 1. To prove the truth of by presentation of evidence or testimony; substantiate. 2. by highlighting weaknesses in the verification environment. "Today our state of the art verification flow contains functional qualification with Certitude to ensure a high level of functional correctness," said Jean-Marc Chateau, group vice president at STMicroelectronics, IP & Design. "Traditional measurement methodologies such as code coverage have proven to be incomplete. Certitude's functional qualification technology provides us with the mandatory information needed to ensure the quality in our internal IPs before integration at System on Chip level." "Having an industry leader like STMicroelectronics standardize stan·dard·ize v. 1. To cause to conform to a standard. 2. To evaluate by comparing with a standard. on our Certitude functional qualification solution is a sign of a growing wave that will sweep the verification market," said Michel Michel named after Gaston Michel, a French surgeon (1875-1937). Michel clip metal skin sutures in various sizes from 8 to 16 mm long. Each clip is a 2 mm wide band of metal with a downturned sharp prong at each end. Courtoy, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Certess. Certess will be demonstrating Certitude and its functional qualification capabilities at the Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE) in Munich, Germany, March 11-13, in stand #B14. For more information, see www.date-conference.com. About Certitude Certitude addresses two of the most critical problems associated with the design of semiconductors: first, that the functional verification Functional verification, in electronic design automation, is the task of verifying that the logic design conforms to specification. In everyday terms, functional verification attempts to answer the question "Does this proposed design do what is intended?" This is a complex task, process consumes more resources than the design process; and second, despite having a set of dedicated tools and methodologies that automate To turn a set of manual steps into an operation that goes by itself. See automation. parts of the process and improve verification quality, companies find that functional logic errors are still the largest cause of silicon re-spins. Functional qualification tackles these problems by providing a direct measure of the quality of the verification environment to find functional errors, by identifying missing tests or checkers checkers, game for two players, known in England as draughts. It is played on a square board, divided into 64 alternately colored—usually red and black or white and black—square spaces, identical with a chessboard. based on whether injected in·ject·ed adj. 1. Of or relating to a substance introduced into the body. 2. Of or relating to a blood vessel that is visibly distended with blood. injected 1. introduced by injection. 2. congested. errors are activated activated a state of being more than usually active. In biological systems this is usually brought about by chemical or electrical means. Commonly said of pharmaceutical and chemical products. , propagated and detected. About Certess Certess, Inc. is the only electronic design automation company providing functional qualification products for companies that create and integrate complex design blocks or intellectual property (IP). The company's technology provides design and verification engineers with an objective way to evaluate and improve the completeness of the verification environment, resulting in a shorter and more predictable process to integrate SoC designs and ensure high quality designs. The company is headquartered in Campbell, CA. For additional information, see www.certess.com. Certess and Certitude are trademarks of Certess, Inc. |
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