Beach Solutions and Verisity Increase Verification Productivity for AM

    Business Editors/High-Tech Editors

    MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 22, 2005--

    Companies Offer Automated Verification Environment and Test Case
    Generation for AMBA-Based Embedded Designs

    Verisity, Ltd. (Nasdaq:VRST) the leading supplier of verification process automation (VPA) solutions, and Beach Solutions, the ESL Synthesis company, today announce the release of the Beach Solutions e Verification Component (eVC) Generator for AMBA, which automatically configures and generates test cases for Verisity's AHB eVC, simplifying the task of verification environment development. Generating directly from design data allows repeatable and rapid verification environment creation, removing human error and saving significant development time. Design changes can be instantly propagated through to the verification environment.
    The companies have collaborated to ensure the eVC Generator for AMBA is tightly integrated with Verisity's AMBA AHB eVC environment. The eVC Generator automates the creation of the environment, test cases and register files required to configure and drive the Verisity eVC verification environment, directly from design data.
    The Beach Solutions eVC Generator for AMBA produces: eVC configuration data for AMBA, e register file models, e address package configurations and e test sequences that are used to run verification tests, in the Specman Elite environment, together with the AMBA eVC components provided by Verisity.
    Beach's eVC Generator for AMBA is the first product resulting from on-going collaborations between Beach Solutions Ltd., Verisity and Verisity's partners.
    Doug McCafferty, president and CEO of Beach Solutions said, "Beach's collaboration with Verisity provides AMBA-based developers with consistent verification views and automated design change propagation. AMBA-based developers will benefit from significant savings in verification configuration time and cost."
    "Combining Beach Solutions eVC Generator for AMBA and Verisity's broadly adopted AMBA AHB eVC environment gives AMBA-based developers a very powerful, simple to configure, and easy-to-use verification environment," said Dave Tokic, director of strategic marketing for Verisity.
    "It traditionally takes weeks of effort per IP block to manually create and debug the verification environment, verification configuration and intelligent vectored tests. Using this combined solution reduces this task to minutes," said Colin Tattersall, COO of Beach Solutions.

    Availability

    The Beach Solutions eVC Generator for AMBA is available from Beach Solutions now, as a generator add-on to EASI-Studio. Verisity's AMBA AHB eVC environment and VPA solutions are available from Verisity.

    About Beach Solutions

    Beach Solutions is a leading innovator of Electronic System Level (ESL) design tools for hardware/software co-design. Beach's EDA tools fit into any design flow to enable hardware/software co-design from high-level system specification through the development of manufacturing tests. The company provides system-level design tools in a seamless environment for ensuring the creation of high quality systems and intellectual property (IP) for system on chip (SoC), embedded software and component-based design styles. Beach's EASI-Tools(TM) are proving their value at the world's largest cell phone company, the world's largest digital signal processor (DSP) chip manufacturer, and leading systems companies. Beach Solutions, founded in 1999, is a venture funded, privately owned company with $8.6 million received to date. MTI Partners is the lead funding partner. Beach Solutions operates on a worldwide basis with its European headquarters based in Reading, United Kingdom and U.S. headquarters in San Jose, CA. See www.beachsolutions.com for additional information.

    About Verisity

    Verisity Ltd., (Nasdaq:VRST) is the leading supplier of process automation solutions for the functional verification market. The company addresses customers' critical business issues with its market-leading software and intellectual property (IP) that effectively and efficiently verify the design of electronic systems and complex integrated circuits for the communications, computing, and consumer electronics global markets. Verisity's VPA solutions enable projects to move from executable verification plans to module, unit, and chip/system level 'total coverage' and verification closure, while maximizing productivity, product quality, and predictability of schedules.
    The company's strong market presence is driven by its proven technology, methodology and solid strategic partnerships and programs. Verisity's customer list includes leading companies in all strategic technology sectors. Verisity is a global organization with offices throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. Verisity's principal executive offices are located in Mountain View, California, with its principal research and development offices located in Rosh Ha'ain, Israel. For more information, visit www.verisity.com.

    Verisity and the Verisity logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Verisity Design, Inc., in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.

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CONTACT: Verisity Design Jennifer Bilsey, 650-934-6823 jen@verisity.com or Beach Solutions Ltd Steve Kompolt, steve.kompolt@beachsolutions.com

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