AMIQ Outsources Its DVT Sales Activities in Asia and Israel to EDAcon Partners

June 11, 2010, Bucharest, Romania and Hod-HaSharon, Israel — AMIQ EDA s.r.l., the leading provider of integrated development environments (IDEs) for the e and SystemVerilog verification languages, and EDAcon Partners Ltd., an innovative provider of outsourcing services including sales strategy, management, and execution and technical marketing to electronic design automation (EDA) and (intellectual property) IP vendors, today announced that the companies have entered into a sales agreement. Under this agreement, AMIQ has outsourced the sales activities of its Design and Verification Tools (DVT™) product line in Asia and Israel to EDAcon Partners Ltd.

EDAcon offers a new model in the EDA industry, saving EDA vendors years of work and millions of $US. It provides a worldwide network of experienced sales representatives, which are local to each country and have a proven track record in selling EDA products.

"We are very happy to partner with EDAcon and have it drive the sales of our DVT IDE in Asia and Israel", said Cristian Amitroaie, AMIQ's CEO. "EDAcon's vast knowledge of the Asian market and business cultures and its broad network of representatives enables us to start selling in these regions almost immediately, eliminating the need of investing significant effort and money to set up our own sales channel".

"AMIQ's DVT platform makes a significant impact on the efficiency and quality of verification code development and maintenance", said Coby Hanoch, EDAcon Partners' President and CEO. "We are impressed with how fast the verification engineers see the value of this solution and adopt it".

The EDAcon Partner representatives working with AMIQ are:

  • Israel: Satris Group Ltd www.satrisgroup.com
  • India and Singapore: CMR Design Automation P Ltd. www.cmrda.com
  • China: OnePass Solutions Ltd. www.ops-eda.com
  • Taiwan: Kaviaz Technology Co., Ltd www.kaviaztech.com
  • Korea: Incusolution Co., Ltd. www.incusolution.com
  • Japan: Synkom Co., Ltd. www.synkom.co.jp

EDAcon Partners will be supporting AMIQ at this year's Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Anaheim, on June 14-16, at booth 1417.

About AMIQ EDA

AMIQ focuses on adding value to the verification domain through its proprietary tools and over 10 years of expertise in ASIC functional verification and reusable IP development. AMIQ provides the Design and Verification Tools (DVT™) platform, the first integrated development environment (IDE) for e and SystemVerilog. Powerful, yet easy to use, the DVT platform integrates in a single window a smart code editor with a complete suite of tools such as class browser, linter, revision control, and task tracking. It works with all major simulators and supports popular verification methodologies like OVM/UVM and VMM. The DVT IDE enables efficient code writing, simplifies the maintenance of reusable libraries and legacy code, and allows verification engineers to easily navigate through a project, making their work much easier and efficient. More information is available at eda.amiq.com.

About EDAcon Partners

EDAcon Partners enables EDA and IP vendors to outsource their sales activities, including the definition of the sales strategy and development of marketing material. With its worldwide network of representatives it provides an instant sales channel with proven abilities, saving EDA and IP vendors the enormous investment in time and money needed to find and ramp up representatives in every country. For more information please see www.edacon-partners.com.

Press Contacts:

For AMIQ:

Cristian Amitroaie

+40-721-284-254

cristian@amiq.com

For EDAcon Partners:

Coby Hanoch

+972-545-421-321

coby@edacon-partners.com