FishTail Lays Down the Gauntlet at
DAC
Verifies Attendees’ Designs On-The-Spot
Portland, Oregon, May 17, 2007 – FishTail Design Automation, Inc., the
golden timing constraints company, today announced that it will offer
customers the opportunity to verify and generate timing exceptions (false
and multi-cycle paths) on their designs at the 2007 Design Automation
Conference in San Diego, California, June 4-7 at the San Diego Convention
Center, booth #7669.
FishTail invites DAC attendees to schedule private demonstrations of the
company’s industry-leading design constraint verification and generation
products, Confirm™ and Focus™. Unlike traditional private demonstrations
at DAC that work on pre-packaged designs and set tool expectations that
are far removed from reality, visitors to the FishTail booth will see and
experience real results on their own designs. Attendees will bring with
them actual designs that they are working on and see that their existing
false and multi-cycle path definitions are fraught with mistakes. They
will leave the FishTail booth with formally generated timing exceptions
for their designs that will have been independently proven to be correct.
“This is one ballsy move by the FishTail folks at DAC," commented John
Cooley of DeepChip.com. "It's a refreshing change from the usual smoke &
mirrors, canned demos, and hyped-up PowerPoint presentations you typically
see. Even if the FishTail tool messes up, I think designers will take a
strong liking to this approach for its honesty. Cool."
Attendees will have the opportunity to assess the following claims made by
FishTail:
1) Confirm is the only product in the industry that formally verifies if a
false-path definition is correct and safe to apply even in the face of
changing circuit delay. For more details, download the white paper
“Delay-Safe False Paths” from
www.fishtail-da.com/whitepaper.htm.
2) Confirm is the only product in the industry that formally verifies
multi-cycle path definitions on complex designs. To view an on-line demo
visit
www.fishtail-da.com/demo.htm.
3) Focus is the only viable solution in the industry for the complete and
comprehensive generation of false and multi-cycle paths - timing
exceptions that reduce chip-implementation turn-around-time and improve
quality-of-results.
4) Focus and Confirm are incredibly easy to deploy in customer design
flows. Engineers do not learn about tool commands and switches. Instead,
they simply point to their existing design data and review HTML reports
that summarize issues in their constraint files.
“I expect DAC attendees will be curious about how our tools handle certain
types of designs and constraints,” said Ajay Daga, Founder & CEO, FishTail
Design Automation. “This is an excellent opportunity for them to get to
the crux of the matter and find out if we offer compelling value for the
designs they work on. Bring it on!”
To schedule a private suite demonstration and to learn more about what to
bring to the FishTail booth to run designs, DAC attendees should visit
www.fishtail-da.com/dac_reg/main.php.
About FishTail Design Automation
Founded in 2002, FishTail Design Automation has set its sights on tackling
the difficult problem of precise constraints on chip timing – the area
where the success or failure of a design is ultimately determined. The
company’s patented technology improves chip implementation by
automatically identifying exceptions to single-cycle clocking from RTL
descriptions. FishTail is privately funded. For more information about
FishTail and Focus, please visit the company’s website at
www.fishtail-da.com.
FishTail and the Focus are trademarks of FishTail Design Automation, Inc.
All other brand names and product names are the property of their
respective owners.
For more information, contact:
Barbara Marker for FishTail
HighPointe Communications
503-209-2323
Barbara@hipcom.com
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