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Breker Verification Systems’ Maheen Hamid Named to 100 Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley List by Silicon Valley Business Journal
Breker Verification Systems Unleashes the SystemUVM Initiative to Empower UVM Engineering
NucleiSys Adopts Breker’s System Coherency TrekApp
Breker Verification Systems Unveils System Coherency Synthesis TrekApp, Building on Its Successful Cache Coherency Test Solution
Breker Verification Systems Names David Kelf CEO and Adnan Hamid Executive President and CTO
Breker Verification Systems’ Maheen Hamid Named to 100 Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley List by Silicon Valley Business Journal
/by becbrekHonored for Her Financial Experience, Operations Management and Commitment to Entrepreneurship to Bring Change
SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– May 19, 2022 –– Maheen Hamid, founder, COO and CFO of Breker Verification Systems, the leading provider of advanced test content synthesis solutions for SoC, UVM and Post-Silicon verification environments, was named today one of Silicon Valley’s 100 most influential women by Silicon Valley Business Journal.
Hamid will be honored during the Women of Influence Award Ceremony at the San Jose Hilton Signia in San Jose, Calif., Thursday, June 16, along with other recipients selected from the private, public and nonprofit sectors. The women are business owners, executives and entrepreneurs like Hamid and community leaders, all of whom are making a mark in Silicon Valley.
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Breker Verification Systems Unleashes the SystemUVM Initiative to Empower UVM Engineering
/by becbrekEnhances Bug Hunting by Simplifying Specification Model Composition for Test Content Synthesis in Existing UVM Environments
SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– February 28, 2022 –– Breker Verification Systems used the opening of DVCon U.S. today to unveil SystemUVM™, a framework designed to simplify specification model composition for test content synthesis with a UVM/SystemVerilog syntactic and semantic approach familiar to universal verification methodology (UVM) engineers.
Developed in partnership with leading semiconductor companies, Breker’s SystemUVM’s UVM-style specification model drives test content synthesis, leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) planning algorithms for deep sequential bug hunting in existing UVM environments.
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NucleiSys Adopts Breker’s System Coherency TrekApp
/by becbrekAdvantages Include Ease of Use, Fast Setup, Considerable Verification Coverage, Flexible Scaling to Meet Future Verification Needs
SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– January 25, 2022 –– Breker Verification Systems today announced Nuclei System Technology deployed its System Coherency TrekApp to ensure coherency of its configurable low-power and high-performance 32- and 64-bit RISC-V processor intellectual property (IP) designs.
“After an extensive evaluation, we choose Breker’s System Coherency TrekApp to help to ensure our design’s coherency,” remarks JianYing Peng, CEO of Nuclei System Technology. “TrekApp offers ease to use and extremely fast setup and covers broad aspect of verification from simple workload to complex scenarios that includes Dekker and Atomics tests.”
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Breker Verification Systems Unveils System Coherency Synthesis TrekApp, Building on Its Successful Cache Coherency Test Solution
/by becbrekSystem Coherency Synthesis TrekApp Generates High Coverage Tests to Stress Coherency, Detect Corner Cases for Range of SoC Platforms, Processors
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SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– December 6, 2021 –– Breker Verification Systems today unveiled its System Coherency Synthesis TrekApp used to generate thousands of high-coverage tests to stress cross-system coherency for a broad range of SoC platforms and processors.
Based on Breker’s Cache Coherency TrekApp, the System Coherency Synthesis TrekApp uses abstract models of common and novel algorithms to automatically generate coherency test content for complex, multi-agent system platforms based on coverage directives. The TrekApp can be configured for Arm, RISC-V and other processor configurations and broad range of storage and I/O architectures.
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Breker Verification Systems Names David Kelf CEO and Adnan Hamid Executive President and CTO
/by becbrekManagement Expansion Driven by Significant Growth in Product Demand and Company Operations
SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– October 26, 2021 –– The Board of Directors of Breker Verification Systems today appointed David Kelf as CEO and Adnan Hamid as Executive President and CTO.
These changes in the management team allows Breker, the leading provider of advanced test content synthesis solutions for System-on-Chip (SoC), Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and Post-Silicon verification environments, to meet the growing demand for its test content synthesis solutions. It also enables the team to manage rapidly expanding operations, while maintaining Breker’s technical leadership. Previously, Kelf served as Breker’s chief marketing officer (CMO) and also managed the company’s sales channel.
“As Breker’s solutions are leveraged across the semiconductor industry in many verification phases demanding technical thought leadership and pioneering solutions, our growing business activities call for a re-focused executive team,” remarks Hamid. “We are excited to have a proven industry leader and verification enthusiast such as Dave at the helm of the company as we rapidly evolve into a leading EDA player. In our years of working together, our equal commitment to customer success bodes well for our new direction.”
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Maheen Hamid of Breker Verification Systems Appointed to SEMI ESD Alliance Governing Council
/by becbrekBreker’s COO, CFO Joins Nine Governing Council Executives
MILPITAS, CALIF. –– October 19, 2021 –– The Electronic System Design Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community, today announced the appointment of Maheen Hamid, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Breker Verification Systems, to its Governing Council.
Hamid assumes the seat formerly held by Babak Taheri who was CEO/CTO of Silvaco. She will serve a two-year term that runs through 2023, joining:
“The entire Governing Council welcomes Maheen,” says Smith. “She is a seasoned, accomplished executive who will offer great industry insights.”
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Breker Launches the Synthesizable VerificationOS™ to Simplify and Streamline the Composition of High-Coverage, Portable Test Content
/by becbrekLightweight kernel provides key services and execution management of Software-Driven SoC, UVM, and Post-Silicon production verification environments
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — March 1st, 2021 — Breker Verification Systems, the leading provider of advanced test content generation solutions for System-on-Chip (SoC), Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) and Post-Silicon verification environments today announced the Synthesizable VerificationOS™. The Synthesizable VerificationOS allows operating system-like services to be automatically embedded in test content and manages the execution of concurrent test operations, particularly critical for the verification of complex SoCs.
The Synthesizable VerificationOS will be a major part of a Breker-sponsored workshop at DVCon US on March 1st, which will also feature an interview with Mike Chin, Principal Engineer at Intel, where he discusses the need for this technology.
“Modern SoCs require functional tests that can track the highly complex corner cases created by operational concurrency in both software and hardware,” noted Adnan Hamid, Chief Executive Officer, Breker Verification Systems. “Just like software needs an OS, software-driven test content requires the Synthesizable VerificationOS to simplify composition, scale concurrent coverage and drive shift-left test content portability.”
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Breker Verification Systems Launches Unique RISC-V TrekApp for Automated, High-Coverage System Integration Test Suite Synthesis
/by becbrekDeveloped with SiFive to Address RISC-V System Integration Validation; Generates High-Impact SoC Verification Test Suite with Minimal Manual Effort
SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– December 10, 2019 –– Breker Verification Systems, the leading provider of Test Suite Synthesis tools based on the Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS), today introduced its RISC-V TrekApp, a complete, automated test content generator for RISC-V system integration testing.
RISC-V TrekApp, the first solution to address the entire RISC-V system-on-chip (SoC) system integration problem, targets complex verification challenges and increases coverage by executing unpredictable corner-case scenarios without the need for manually developed test content. The TrekApp works with existing universal verification methodology (UVM) and SoC verification environments and does not require the user to learn the PSS language.
“RISC-V excels in enabling new and innovative designs, creating verification opportunities for system integration,” remarks Adnan Hamid, Breker’s president and chief executive officer. “Breker’s RISC-V TrekApp builds on our success with other processors to fully automate this intensive task while allowing for the distinctiveness created by RISC-V, saving hours of laborious test development while increasing coverage.”
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Breker Verification Systems Unveils Intelligent Regression Optimization Solution to Accelerate Simulation, Emulation Execution
/by becbrekNew Efficiency Features Include Intelligent Coverage Targeting, Pre-Solve/Compile Test Application, RapidFire Test Scheduling
SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– September 24, 2019 –– Breker Verification Systems, the leading provider of Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS)-compliant software, today announced its PSS-based Test Suite Synthesis includes a set of new efficiency features including Intelligent Coverage Targeting, Pre-Solve/Pre-Compile Test Application and RapidFire™ Test Scheduling.
The combination of efficiency features bundled into Breker’s Intelligent Regression Optimization Solution on average saves 75% or more in execution time. Some emulation runtimes improve by an order of magnitude with the tool.
“As SoC verification solutions evolve, significant inefficiencies emerge that impact performance and achievable coverage,” observes Adnan Hamid, Breker’s president and chief executive officer. “Test Suite Synthesis provides the opportunity to correct these. It leverages coverage specifics to drive test production, avoids emulation testbench compilation and random solving during execution, and batches test sets together while eliminating redundant startup procedures.”
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MEDIA ALERT: Jim Hogan Leads “Are We Experiencing a Renaissance in Chip Design and EDA?” Panel Discussion During ES Design West
/by becbrekWith Panelists Joe Costello, Breker, Imperas, Methodics, Metrics, OneSpin Executives
SAN JOSE, CALIF. –– June 27, 2019 ––
WHO: Jim Hogan, Silicon Valley venture capitalist, software and executive managing partner of Vista Ventures, LLC.
WHAT: Leads a panel discussion “Are We Experiencing a Renaissance in Chip Design and EDA?” with Metrics’ Joe Costello, chairman of the board, and President Doug Letcher; Adnan Hamid, chief executive officer (CEO) of Breker Verification Systems; Simon Davidmann, Imperas’ president and CEO; Simon Butler, CEO of Methodics; and Dr. Raik Brinkmann, OneSpin Solutions’ president and CEO.
WHEN: Tuesday, July 9, from 2:55 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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