EVE ends fiscal 08 with 40pc revenue growth

SANTA CLARA, USA: EVE, the leader in hardware/software co-verification, closed its fiscal year 2008 with year-over-year revenue growth of 40 percent and a CAGR of 100 percent over the last four years.

“We are delighted to announce our remarkable growth, which confirms EVE’s position as number one in hardware/software co-verification,” asserts Dr. Luc Burgun, EVE’s chief executive officer and president. “This is the result of numerous innovations brought to market, including EVE’s Reconfigurable Testbench, Transaction-Level Simulation at several megahertz speed, along with the software debugger connection to CPU via JTAG transactor, and full LVDS emulation.”

This news comes after EVE expanded its customer base to a total of 57 customers and approximately 300 systems installed worldwide. EVE added multiple new customers in leading industries, including Sony in digital camera (DSC), LSI Logic in consumer, and Renesas, Marvell Technology Group and Qualcomm in wireless.

This historic year saw volume deployment of ZeBu-XXL, the fastest emulation platform with a top speed of 20 megahertz and a maximum capacity of 100-million application specific integrated circuits (ASIC) gates in a small chassis. By interconnecting three boxes, it can be expanded to 300-million ASIC gates. In fiscal year 2008, several multi-box configurations have been installed worldwide.

“The increasing use of software content in SoC designs requires fast validation tools,” affirms Lauro Rizzatti, general manager of EVE-USA and worldwide vice president of marketing. “Our ZeBu systems set new performance standards for transaction-based acceleration, challenging the traditional in-circuit emulation approach to become the only viable products on the market to address growing validation problems.”