Silicon Valley Research Ports EDA Offerings to Linux OS.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 1999-- Silicon Valley Research, Inc. (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). :SVRI) announced today that it has successfully ported all of its currently supported products to the popular Linux operating system. The Company's products will continue to be available on SunOS, Solaris, and HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. in addition to Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. 6.1. "We based our decision to support Linux on several factors including performance, customer demand and the recent commercial success of Linux," stated James Benouis, 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 SVR. "With the recent releases of next generation processors from AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. and Intel, PC systems currently provide substantial performance advantages over the current generation of UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). workstations at a much lower overall system cost. We are pleased to be the first place and route company to offer a production solution on this quickly growing platform." Founded in 1979, Silicon Valley Research, Inc. develops, markets and supports innovative IC physical design software for floorplanning, placement, routing, custom layout and parasitic extraction of deep submicron Integrated Circuits (ICs). SVR also provides design consulting services and support to its customers. The advanced technology in SVR's production-proven tools results in dense, high yielding, high performance chips. Headquartered in San Jose, SVR has sales representatives in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Information on potential factors which may affect the Company's financial results are included in the Company's Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K. For additional information, visit SVR's Web site, http://www.svri.com. |
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