Date: 20/10/2011

SpringSoft's Verdi and Vennsa's OnPoint are designed to interoperate

SpringSoft, Inc and Vennsa Technologies Inc. have announced seamless interoperability between SpringSoft's Verdi Automated Debug System and Vennsa's OnPoint Root Cause Analysis. Both these EDA tools are used in SOC chip design by VLSI designers for debugging.

"Error localization and debugging consume more than 60% of the verification effort," remarks Andreas Veneris, president and chief executive officer of Vennsa Technologies, a member of the SpringSoft Harmony Partner Program. "Verdi is the de facto standard debugger and a verification engineer's tool of choice. Tight integration between OnPoint and Verdi using SpringSoft's VIA platform provides the user community with the best solution for failure analysis that OnPoint offers coupled with the powerful visualization environment of Verdi."

Comments Thomas Li, director of product marketing at SpringSoft: "Automated root cause analysis solution is a new and complementary approach to debug. OnPoint's strength is in reasoning about failures and identifying the real culprits of errors. By allowing engineers to access OnPoint within the Verdi environment, they now have another tool to help contain the immense burden of debugging complex designs."