CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
4 June 2004
Company News
Silicon Navigator Licenses Concept Engineering's Schematic Visualization
Concept Engineering ( http://www.concept.de ) announced a worldwide OEM license agreement with Silicon Navigator Corp. to bundle Concept Engineering's NlviewQT Widget, a Qt-based visual debugging software engine, into Silicon Navigator's OpenAccess technology for integrated circuit (IC) timing and placement optimization. Concept's Nlview engine is the industry-standard schematic generation, viewing and debugging software for electronic design automation (EDA) tool developers who develop graphical user interfaces in C++ and use the Qt GUI development kit.
Silicon Navigator Corp. is the first startup to embrace OpenAccess as its database, and the company is developing components and applications based on OpenAccess. After extensive evaluations, the company selected Concept Engineering as it primary partner for visualization of netlists and timing results using the NlviewQT Widget directly interfaced to the OpenAccess database. Visualization components provide the path to incremental analysis and debug for OpenAccess flows. Silicon Navigator plans to demo the integration at the 41st Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Diego, Calif., June 7-11, in the Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) booth.
Product demonstrations for the Nlview Widget family will be given at DAC in the Concept Engineering booth.
The Nlview Widget family provides a broad range of components for GUI development-Qt, Java, Tcl/Tk, MFC and Perl/TK-for automatic schematic generation, viewing and debugging at all design levels: transistor, gate, block, register-transfer and system. Nlview Widgets relieve EDA tool designers of having to develop their own schematic generation software by providing a set of flexible software components for automated schematic generation and viewing. By adopting Nlview Widgets, developers can realize GUIs for EDA products with shorter design cycles and lower development and maintenance costs.
Concept Engineering is a privately held company based in Freiburg, Germany, founded in 1990 to develop and market schematic generation and viewing technology for use with logic synthesis, verification, test automation and physical design tools.
Silicon Navigator Corp. is a privately funded company based in Cupertino, California. For more information, see http://www.sinavigator.com
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