nSys Offers World's Largest Portfolio of Verification IPs for OVM-Based SystemVerilog Environments

Available for Mentor Graphics Questa Verification Platform

NEWARK, CA -- February 19, 2008 -- nSys Design Systems, the developer of the world's largest portfolio of Verification IPs, announced today the availability of nSys' Verification IP products integrated with the Open Verification Methodology (OVM) environment. The nSys Verification IPs for OVM-based environments are available for standard interfaces such as AMBA AXI, Ethernet, PCIe, SATA, and USB etc.

"We have seen rapid acceptance of SystemVerilog in the last few months," said Atul Bhatia, CEO of nSys Design Systems. "The availability of commercial verification tools from nSys and Mentor Graphics will help mutual customers leverage the full potential of SystemVerilog and OVM to develop verification environments that before were only a dream."

The demand by users for verification data portability and verification platform interoperability has driven the verification community to OVM. Being a member of Mentor Graphics Questa Vanguard program, nSys is able to qualify its Verification IP with the Questa verification platform and offer early support for OVM. As a recognized OVM Partner, nSys can leverage electronic design automation industry collaboration in the development and support of OVM as well as provide early feedback and rapid support of OVM.

"We worked closely with nSys upon the release of OVM so our mutual customers could use the nSys Verification IPs within the Questa verification environment," said Dennis Brophy, Director of Strategic Business Development of Mentor Graphics Design Verification and Test division. "The availability of nSys Verification IPs for OVM-based environments will enable designers to rapidly adopt OVM and drastically reduce the verification effort of complex designs."

Pricing and Availability: OVM-based Verification IPs are available today for a wide variety of protocols. Pricing starts at $5,000 for one Annual encrypted license.

About nSys: nSys leverages the world's largest portfolio of Verification IPs it has developed, to provide products & services to Accelerate Designs of its customers developing ASIC or FPGA. The nVS family has proven VIPs for standard interfaces such as PCI Express, Ethernet, SATA, SAS, AXI, USB, SDIO, DDR3, DDR2 etc. For more information, please visit www.nsysinc.com