FishTail Joins Mentor Graphics’
OpenDoor Program and the ModelSim Value Added Partnership Program
Focus interfaces with ModelSim and 0-In Products
Portland, Oregon, May 11, 2005 – FishTail Design Automation, Inc., the
golden timing constraints company, today announced that it has joined both
Mentor Graphics (Nasdaq:MENT) OpenDoor Program and the ModelSim Value
Added Partnership Program. The memberships will provide joint customers
with integration between FishTail’s Focus™ and Mentor Graphics® 0-In® and
ModelSim® products.
“Our customers have articulated the importance of being able to leverage
their investment in simulation and property-checking tools to also verify
timing exceptions,” stated Ajay Daga, founder and CEO of FishTail. “Being
a part of Mentor’s partner programs has allowed us to build a robust
interface for the assertion-based verification of timing exceptions using
ModelSim and 0-In. The interface is available today.”
Focus automatically generates timing exceptions from synthesizable RTL. In
addition, Focus also generates assertions that justify why a false-path or
multi-cycle path definition is correct. These assertions may be generated
for the timing exceptions produced by Focus, as well as for user-specified
timing exceptions. The Focus-generated assertions can then be verified
using simulation or property-checking tools from Mentor Graphics.
“We are pleased to add FishTail to our list of partners to drive improved
design and verification value for our mutual customers,” said Dennis
Brophy, director of strategic business development. “Interoperable
verification solutions, supported by our value added partnership program,
are a must to address the growth in verification complexity.”
“0-In products provide exhaustive, formal verification technology and
methodology that guarantees zero functional errors,” said Steven D. White,
general manager of Mentor Graphics’ 0-In Functional Verification Business
Unit. “The application of 0-In’s technology to validate static timing
constraints, automatically generated by FishTail’s Focus product, provides
our mutual customers a compelling solution for achieving timing closure.”
About the programs
Mentor Graphics maintains the OpenDoor Program as a mechanism to promote
and distribute the development of interfaces among interested vendors of
EDA software. OpenDoor provides access to a diverse number of partner
companies that offer well integrated, leading edge software solutions that
complement the Mentor Graphics suite of tools in all aspects of the design
process.
The ModelSim Value Added Partnership (VAP) program was established to
bring customers world-class product integrations and interoperability.
ModelSim partners with electronic design automation companies to integrate
their tools and technology with ModelSim to meet the interoperability
needs of its customers.
More about Focus
FishTail's Focus™ product solves the time-consuming problem of poor
chip-implementation results because of missing or incorrect timing
exceptions by formally identifying false and multi-cycle paths early in
the design cycle - before virtual prototyping and logic synthesis. Using
only the synthesizable description and clock definitions, Focus
automatically generates the timing exceptions for the design in standard
SDC file format for use by downstream implementation tools.
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
For more information, contact:
Barbara Marker for FishTail
HighPointe Communications
503-209-2323
Barbara@hipcom.com |
