Liga Systems' NitroSIM(TM) Is Named Finalist In The Design Verification Tools Category For The Prestigious 2007 DesignVision Awards.Breakthrough, Patented, Drop-In Hybrid Simulator Boosts Desktop and Compute Farm Server Simulation Speed by 10 to 100 Times SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Liga Systems, Inc., a Silicon Valley-Based EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. company focused on delivering lightning-fast RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; simulation to the desktop, today announced that NitroSIM[TM], its flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , has been named as a finalist in the prestigious 2007 DesignVision Awards. NitroSIM's Hybrid Simulation technology harnesses patented software and hardware techniques that enable acceleration of RTL and gate-level simulation without compromising software simulation features, pricing or capacity. Again this year, the International Engineering Consortium (IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iec.ch) An organization that sets international electrical and electronics standards founded in 1906. It is made up of national committees from over 60 countries. IEC - International Electrotechnical Commission ) uses its DesignVision awards to pay tribute to pioneering developments judged as the most beneficial to the design engineering community. The 96-person Technical Program Committee comprised of the industry's top thought leaders, selected NitroSIM from among a large record number of competing products in one of nine categories, recognizing Liga Systems' flagship product as one of 2006's top innovations in electronic design in the category of Design Verification Tools. "In support of the IEC's mission, our DesignVision Awards honor those companies and products that are catalyzing positive change in high-technology, business, and academia, such as Liga Systems' NitroSIM, one of the finalists in our 2007 DesignVision awards," stated John Janowiak, IEC President. "We are looking forward to naming the top winners in each category at the DesignCon conference in Santa Clara Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , and in sharing the best design advancements with the entire industry." "We are pleased and honored to have NitroSIM named as a finalist in the 2007 DesignVision awards," said Henry Verheyen, president and 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 Liga Systems. "We developed NitroSIM to tackle the verification productivity gap caused by the inability of workstation-based software simulation to scale adequately with today's increasing design size, and the fundamental incompatibility The inability of a Husband and Wife to cohabit in a marital relationship. incompatibility n. the state of a marriage in which the spouses no longer have the mutual desire to live together and/or stay married, and is thus a ground for divorce of FPGA- and processor-based hardware accelerators with software simulators. NitroSim requires no FPGAs or processors to map the design functionality. The design, in its entirety, is compiled into memory instructions for execution by NitroSIM's VLIW (Very Long Instruction Word) A CPU architecture that reads a group of instructions and executes them at the same time. For example, the group (word) might contain four instructions, and the compiler ensures that those four instructions are not dependent on each processor. NitroSIM easily fits inside a desktop or server PC as a plug-in upgrade, requiring no additional space. Its compile and set-up time is on the order of hours and can be applied to all phases of RTL and gate-level design: from small blocks, to big blocks, to the entire chip, to multi-chip. This breakthrough solution provides users the ability to simulate and verify entire systems at high simulation speeds at an affordable cost. The top winners of the DesignVision awards within each of the nine categories will be announced at DesignCon on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at noon in the theater of the Santa Clara Convention Center. Entrance to the awards ceremony is complimentary with an Exhibits Plus Pass available at www.designcon.com/2007/registration. About Liga Systems Liga Systems, Inc. is a privately-held EDA company focused on delivering lightning-fast RTL simulation to the desktop. The company serves test, verification and IP markets with breakthrough hybrid simulation technology that turbocharges performance at a dramatically reduced cost. Liga's plug-in VLIW turbocharger tur·bo·charg·er n. See turbosupercharger. tur  bo·charged adj. leverages existing simulation infrastructure, tackles SoC designs of up to 300 million gates, and eliminates the need to implement designs in FPGAs or processors. Founded in 2003, Liga Systems is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California Sunnyvale ([sʌniveil]) is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States. It is one of the major cities that make up the Silicon Valley. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 131,760. . For details on how to boost the speed of software-based simulation, increase capacity, scale with growing design sizes, reduce overall 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, costs and benefit from this breakthrough simulation solution, please visit: http://www.ligasystems.com. All trademarks or registered trademarks mentioned in this news release are the intellectual property of their respective owners. |
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