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Breker Verification Systems Appoints Andy Stein Vice President of Worldwide Sales as Company Scales New Business Opportunities

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Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Executive Hire Comes as Breker Moves into RISC-V, System Coherency, Security Markets that Require Skill, Expertise of Proven Sales Vice President

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  • Executive Hire Comes as Breker Moves into RISC-V, System Coherency, Security Markets that Require Skill, Expertise of Proven Sales Vice President
    SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 05, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Breker Verification Systems , whose product portfolio solves challenges across the functional verification process for large, complex semiconductors, today appointed Andy Stein Vice President of Worldwide Sales reporting to CEO David Kelf.
  • Mr. Stein, responsible for the worldwide sales organization, will play a pivotal role as Breker moves into new and growing markets such as RISC-V, system coherency and security that require the skill and expertise of a proven sales executive.
  • “Andy is well known across the semiconductor industry as a highly effective business leader and sales manager with a strong technical background and a wealth of verification experience.
  • His business acumen and international sales management experience is renowned and valued by everyone at Breker.”
    “Breker’s Trek portfolio is widely recognized as a functional verification problem solver for block- and system-level verification,” remarks Mr. Stein.

Breker Verification Systems Unveils Easy-To-Adopt Integrity FASTApps Targeting RISC-V Processor Core, SoC Verification Scenarios

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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Breker Verification Systems , the leading provider of advanced test content synthesis solutions, today unveiled the Breker Integrity FASTApps™ Portfolio, a library of automated test generation intellectual property (IP) elements targeting difficult-to-verify processor core and system-on-chip (SoC) scenarios.

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  • SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 13, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Breker Verification Systems , the leading provider of advanced test content synthesis solutions, today unveiled the Breker Integrity FASTApps™ Portfolio, a library of automated test generation intellectual property (IP) elements targeting difficult-to-verify processor core and system-on-chip (SoC) scenarios.
  • The FASTApps provide commercial-grade, high-coverage verification for RISC-V processor cores and the SoC platforms that use them.
  • The Processor Core Integrity FASTApps include commonplace, but hard-to-verify scenarios such as load store integrity, random instruction testing, register-to-register hazards, conditionals and branches, exceptions, async.
  • Adnan Hamid, Breker’s CTO, will address “RISC-V SoC and Processor Integrity: Dealing with Unique RISC-V Integrity Issues” December 14 at 12:10 p.m. P.S.T.

Breker Verification Systems and Codasip Announce Cooperation to Drive Open, Commercial-Grade RISC-V SoC Verification Processes

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Monday, July 11, 2022

Todays announcement comes as Breker and Codasip demonstrate their RISC-V SoC verification and processor IP solutions at Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Booth #2528 and #1451, respectively, at Moscone West here.

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  • Todays announcement comes as Breker and Codasip demonstrate their RISC-V SoC verification and processor IP solutions at Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Booth #2528 and #1451, respectively, at Moscone West here.
  • Typically, these processes consist of applying a range of algorithms to drive interleaved test content, a largely ad hoc process.
  • RISC-V SoC verification and processor IP solutions demonstrations in the Breker and Codasip will be available today through Wednesday, July 13, from 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
  • Breker Verification Systems is a leading provider of Portable Stimulus solutions, a standard means to specify verification intent and behaviors reusable across target platforms.

Breker Verification Systems Joins RISC-V International as a Strategic Member to Drive Cache Coherency and SoC Integration Verification Methodologies

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Thursday, June 30, 2022

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Breker Verification Systems , the leading provider of advanced test content synthesis solutions, including RISC-V Cache Coherency and other SoC integration Verification Intellectual Property (VIP) in the TrekApps family, today joined RISC-V International (RVI) as a strategic member.

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  • SAN JOSE, Calif., June 30, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Breker Verification Systems , the leading provider of advanced test content synthesis solutions, including RISC-V Cache Coherency and other SoC integration Verification Intellectual Property (VIP) in the TrekApps family, today joined RISC-V International (RVI) as a strategic member.
  • Breker will offer its expertise in SoC verification solutions to the RVI working groups.
  • Breker became a member to influence the development of a cache coherency and integration test content platform for RISC-V processor development and end-use verification.
  • Breker Verification Systems is a leading provider of Portable Stimulus solutions, a standard means to specify verification intent and behaviors reusable across target platforms.

Breker Verification Systems Appoints FirstEDA as Exclusive European Distributor

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Tuesday, June 21, 2022

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Breker Verification Systems , the leading provider of advanced test content synthesis solutions for SoC, UVM and Post-Silicon verification environments, appointed FirstEDA as its exclusive European distributor.

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  • SAN JOSE, Calif., June 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Breker Verification Systems , the leading provider of advanced test content synthesis solutions for SoC, UVM and Post-Silicon verification environments, appointed FirstEDA as its exclusive European distributor.
  • Breker selected FirstEDA for its experienced and highly skilled engineering staff and understanding of the needs of the verification community.
  • Breker stands out in the field of verification tools and solutions, says Julian Lonsdale, Sales Director of FirstEDA, based in the U.K.
  • Breker Verification Systems is a leading provider of verification synthesis solutions that leverage SystemUVM, C++ and Portable Stimulus, a standard means to specify reusable verification intent.

Breker Verification Systems Names NeXtream Exclusive Distributor in Japan

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Tuesday, June 21, 2022

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Breker Verification Systems , the leading provider of advanced test content synthesis solutions for SoC, UVM and Post-Silicon verification environments, named NeXtream of Yokohama, Japan, as its exclusive distributor in Japan.

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  • SAN JOSE, Calif., June 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Breker Verification Systems , the leading provider of advanced test content synthesis solutions for SoC, UVM and Post-Silicon verification environments, named NeXtream of Yokohama, Japan, as its exclusive distributor in Japan.
  • Breker selected NeXtream for its marketing and sales professionalism and understanding of verification and validation, electronic design automation (EDA) and intellectual property (IP) markets.
  • NeXtream has deep ties into the chip design and verification community in Japan and a reputation for exceptional support, remarks Dave Kelf, Brekers CEO.
  • Breker Verification Systems is a leading provider of verification synthesis solutions that leverage SystemUVM, C++ and Portable Stimulus, a standard means to specify reusable verification intent.

Breker Verification Systems’ Maheen Hamid Named to 100 Most Influential Women in Silicon Valley List by Silicon Valley Business Journal

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Thursday, May 19, 2022

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 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 Valleys 100 most influential women by Silicon Valley Business Journal.

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  • SAN JOSE, Calif., May 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- 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 Valleys 100 most influential women by Silicon Valley Business Journal.
  • The women are business owners, executives and entrepreneurs like Hamid and community leaders, all of whom are making a mark in Silicon Valley.
  • Hamid is a regular contributor to different business journals and forums writing about a broad range of topics related to small business management.
  • Breker Verification Systems is a leading provider of Portable Stimulus solutions, a standard means to specify verification intent and behaviors reusable across target platforms.

Breker Verification Systems Unleashes the SystemUVM Initiative to Empower UVM Engineering

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Monday, February 28, 2022

For more information go to: www.brekersystems.com/SystemUVM

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  • For more information go to: www.brekersystems.com/SystemUVM
    UVM is an effective standard for block-level verification, remarks David Kelf, Brekers CEO.
  • SystemUVM makes this easily accessible for verification specialists with a minimal learning curve, dramatically changing the nature of functional verification.
  • The Meeting of the SoC Verification Hidden Dragons , a panel organized by Breker and featuring Hamid will address the gap in semiconductor verification between block functional verification and system SoC validation.
  • Breker Verification Systems is a leading provider of verification synthesis solutions that leverage SystemUVM, C++ and Portable Stimulus, a standard means to specify reusable verification intent.

NucleiSys Adopts Breker’s System Coherency TrekApp

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Tuesday, January 25, 2022

SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Breker Verification Systems today announced Nuclei System Technology deployed its System Coherency Synthesis TrekApp to ensure coherency of its configurable low-power and high-performance 32- and 64-bit RISC-V processor intellectual property (IP) designs.

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  • SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 25, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Breker Verification Systems today announced Nuclei System Technology deployed its System Coherency Synthesis 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 Brekers System Coherency TrekApp to help to ensure our designs coherency, remarks JianYing Peng, CEO of Nuclei System Technology.
  • The System Coherency Synthesis TrekApp can generate thousands of high-coverage tests to stress cross-system coherency for a broad range of SoC platforms and processors.
  • It is based on Brekers Cache Coherency TrekApp and uses abstract models of common and novel algorithms to automatically generate coherency test content for complex, multi-agent system platforms based on coverage directives.