Dr' Alec Stanculescu

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Fintronic USA
www.fintronic.com

• Dr. Alec Stanculescu
• President
• Strategy for Design Verification
• DAC, New Orleans,
• June, 2002

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Summary
Fintronic USA

• About Fintronic USA
• Verilog Simulation Products
• Commitments
• Business Model

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About Fintronic USA
Fintronic USA

• Technical Leadership
• First Simulators to have mixed interpretedcompile
  d, eventcycle, 64 bit, formal methods, farm
• Stable
• Profitable over last 14 Years
• Market Share
• 3000 licenses sold to over 400 companies
• 6 of Verilog simulation market
• Transmeta, Intel, Motorola, CISCO, Matsushita,
  Connexant, Toyota, Toshiba

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Verilog Simulation Products
Fintronic USA

• Super FinSim - Verilog simulator
• FinFarm - Simulation Farm
• VHDL to Verilog translation - by ASC, Inc.

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Super FinSim
Fintronic USA

• Proven technology
• many tens of real chips already taped-out
• Excellent track record
• 31/2 years at Connexant in San Jose
• Over 3 years at Transmeta Best choice for
  simulation farms
• Integrated with 3rd party tools
• Undertow, Debussy, Specman, HDLScore,
  FlowTracer, Vera, VirSim, etc.

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FinFarm-Verilog Simulation Farm
Fintronic USA

• Enables one engineer to manage many simultaneous
  simulations
• Network of computers
• Farming methodology
• Farming tools
• Current farms use between 10 and more than 1000
  licenses

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Farming Methodology
Fintronic USA

• Un-partitioned circuits
• small footprint 64-bit simulation helps
• Split stimulus
• Simultaneous verification of alternative
  components
• Program feedback-based verification

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Farming Tools
Fintronic USA

• Perform automated
• simulation launching
• simulation queuing
• collection reporting of simulation results
• collection merging of code coverage results
• Perform real-time monitoring
• Perform programmed re-launching of simulations

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FinFarm Usage
Fintronic USA

• Regression Testing
• Extensive Exploration of Design Space
• Evaluation of Reusable IPs
• Analysis of Design Trade-Offs Power, Size,
  Speed and search for optimal solution using
  feedback loop
• Verification of Post-Synthesis Equivalence

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Revolutionary Customer Support
Fintronic USA

• Automatic bug processing tools
• One click bug reporting
• Self debugging
• Customer references
• Godfrey DSouza - Dir. VLSI Design, Transmeta
  godfrey_at_transmeta.com
• Ravi Reddy Founder, Aurora VLSI
  ravi_at_auroravlsi.com

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Commitments
Fintronic USA

• Standards
• Active participation DAC, DATE, TC-93 IEC, 1364
  IEEE, Verilog Accelera, JEIDA
• E-Commerce
• quotes, downloads, invoice and e-support
• Continuous product improvement
• Growing sales and support
• Distributors in Japan, China, India,
  Singapore-Malaysia , Europe, Korea, USA

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Business Model
Fintronic USA

• Best price/performance
• Maintenance 15 of list price
• Licenses
• Site, Campus, Company-wide floating
• Company-wide unlimited yearly usage
• Leasing program
• reduced payments

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Conclusion
Fintronic USA

• Super FinSim - Verilog Simulation Leader
• Best Price/Performance
• Adaptable Business Model
• Unsurpassed Customer Support
• Simulation Farm belongs to the state-of-the-art
  Verification Technology

www.fintronic.com