News Release from: Concept Engineering
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 4 July 2003
More scope for schematics generation
Concept Engineering has added Perl capability to its Nlview Widgets family.
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Concept Engineering has added Perl capability to its Nlview Widgets family. The company has also signed third party agreements with Atrenta (San Jose, California), Nassda Corporation (Santa Clara, California) and Prover Technology (Stockholm, Sweden). Nlview Widgets are GUI building blocks, which allow EDA tools manufacturers to build schematic generation and viewing capabilities into their graphical user interfaces (GUIs), whichever development environment they are using.
Environments supported include Tk, Java, Microsoft's Foundation Classes, Trolltech's Qt Framework and now, with the NlviewPTK Widget, Perl/Tk.
Widgets also provide built-in end-user customisable functionality.
"EDA companies are finding it too expensive and time-consuming to develop and maintain their own schematic generation tools", said Gerhard Angst, President and CEO of Concept Engineering.
"Using ready-made software components such as the Widgets saves EDA teams a lot of time and money".
Atrenta is the first licensee of Concept Engineering's NlviewPTK Widget.
Incorporating the NlviewPTK Widget into SpyGlass, allows users to display a schematic of synthesised logic and crossprobe between RTL code and the schematic.
Design rule violations are highlighted in both the schematic and the source code so users can better understand design problems and quickly find solutions.
"Our partnership with Concept Engineering has allowed us to quickly expand the capabilities of SpyGlass with a more powerful debug environment", said Ghulam Nurie, senior vice president of marketing and business development for Atrenta.
"By integrating Concept Engineering's industry-standard schematic generation and viewing technology with our leading predictive analysis solution, we can help SpyGlass users shorten design and debug time for complex ASICs and SoCs".
Prover Technology has signed an OEM agreement with Concept Engineering for the right to use Concept's NlviewQT Widget in the Prover equivalence checker.
The Widgets immediately gave Prover eCheck advanced and mature schematic viewing capabilities for even further improved debugging.
Gunnar Stalmarck, CEO of Prover Technology, said: "Nlview enables us to offer the most intuitive debugging support without spending time reinventing the wheel".
As well as providing EDA tools developers with visualisation engines, Concept Engineering also provides SpiceVision Pro, which produces clean, easy-to-read transistor-level schematics from complex Spice descriptions.
Nassda Corp is now selling SpiceVision Pro integrated with its Critic and Hanex digital circuit analysis software under a comprehensive OEM agreement.
"Concept Engineering's visualisation technology provides the speed, capacity, and ease-of-use that we were seeking for our digital timing analysis solutions", said Nassda CEO Sang Wang.
"SpiceVision Pro's interactivity, efficient database, and fast speed combined with Nassda's high-performance timing analysers will allow designers to accurately visualise analysis output and quickly debug critical paths in their designs".
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