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SmartDV Verification IP Got Bigger and Smarter
SI Team
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
When one is serving to semiconductor companies in a niche market like EDA, there is no room for complacency. SmartDV, based out of Bangalore India with it's USA office in San Diego, CA, offers high quality standard and custom protocol verification IP (VIP) products designed to work with coverage driven verification flow. And yet, SmartDV thrives to innovate and offer more to its clients. "We have partnered with top semiconductor companies to develop products for technologies which are still in
development stage; this helps our customers to reach market much faster as they have solution from SmartDV which is ready even before final protocol specification is
released," remarks Deepak Kumar Tala, Founder And CEO of SmartDV.

SmartDV provides over 75 mature verification IPs which come with complete compliance testsuite, comprehensive functional coverage models, and protocol checks to speed up the verification of designs. SmartDV VIPs are two to four times faster to compile and simulate compared to their competition.

"We have built our own language and compiler technology, using which we can write code/develop Verification IPs faster compared to any other company in industry," explains Tala. "Beyond this, we have development flow which has been fine tuned
to get Verification IP from specification to final products with high quality and in
short time with smaller team size." In short, they have automated almost all steps of
developing verification, including documentation.

SmartDV ASIC and FPGA proven Design IP solutions save customers time and money by
providing ease-of-use technology and long-term reliability. Utmost care is taken in building Design IP solutions. "We test it with customer proven Verification IP's and FPGA to ensure the design IP works first time when customers use it," notes Tala. So much goes into delivering such quality products that when one of the top semiconductor companies used SmartDV's VIPs, they found bugs in already taped-out chip, which
actually was taped-out using other EDA companies' products.

"We have many top semiconductor companies which had mentioned to us that they
found bugs on chips which have been in production for many years," exclaims Tala. "This basically reflects quality of products we build and completeness of our products."
But there is nothing as a complete product and the secret is to stay ahead of the market competition by consistently working towards achieving the perfection.

Adaptability is one of the key factors for the success of SmartDV. They have consistently built upon the customer feedback, and all their products automatically get updated accordingly. Started as a measure to improve quality of chip development
in 2008, SmartDV now has most of the top semiconductor companies as its customers along with 80+ customers worldwide. SmartDV started its US operations in January 2014. With
major geographical expansions planned in Japan and Taiwan, the aim is to increase partnerships with the industry majors and increase global awareness.

"In terms of technology, we are working on automating Memory models and simulation
acceleration VIP's development. We want to replicate same success we had in VIP with Memory models and SimXL product line,"concludes Tala.
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