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Anastasiya Sasnakevich

Optima Design Automation Receives ISO 26262 ASIL D Ready Certification from SGS-TÜV Saar

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NAZARETH, ISRAEL – September 12th, 2023 – Optima Design Automation, a leader in next generation functional safety and IC-security verification, today announced that the internationally-recognized testing organization SGS-TÜV Saar GmbH of SGS Group has certified the company’s  functional safety product range for use in ISO 26262 automotive semiconductor verification projects, up to ASIL-D.

“Nowadays, it should be a matter of course that tool manufacturers support tool users in tool qualification according to ISO 26262.  This task was solved by Optima with excellence, their documents show best Practices and valid arguments for a tool classification as TCL1 and “ASIL D READY” could be certified.” noted Gudrun Neumann from SGS-TÜV Saar GmbH. These arguments for increased confidence in the Optima-SA™, Optima-HE™, Optima-SE™ products, which make up the Optima Safety Platform (OSP), enable OSP to be used for the development of safety-critical chips in the automotive sector with the highest Automotive Safety and Integrity Level,™ ASIL D.

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Anastasiya Sasnakevich

Optima Launches High-Performance, Pre-Silicon Semiconductor Security Verification Solution

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NAZARETH, ISRAEL, June 30, 2022 — Optima Design Automation, a leader in next-generation functional safety and IC-security verification, today announced its new hardware security verification solution, Optima-SEC™. Optima-SEC™ enables the high-performance pre-silicon verification of fault injection attacks and certifies the counter-measures adopted against such attacks that target the extraction of secret information from semiconductors leveraging side-channel effects. Optima-SEC™ to be showcased at the Design Automation Conference (DAC59 – 2022).

Optima-SEC™ is a next-generation platform for IC-Security countermeasure verification and vulnerability analysis. With Optima-SEC™, security verification is highly automated and accelerated during silicon development prior to fabrication. Today most security verification is performed after silicon fabrication,  late in the semiconductor design cycle, which results in low visibility and high-costs for correcting vulnerabilities. Read more

Anastasiya Sasnakevich

Media Advisory: Optima Talking About Chip Security Verification at DAC22

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The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is recognized as the premier event devoted to the design and automation of electronic systems (EDA), embedded systems and software (ESS), and intellectual property (IP).  DAC offers outstanding training, education, exhibits and superb networking opportunities for designers, researchers, tool developers and vendors.

As part of Front-End Session in “Engineering Track” Optima will present its solution in chip security verification during the “New Developments in Security Verification and Controlling Unpredictable Behavior” session. Don’t miss it out, join our presentation on “Verifying Security Countermeasures for side channel fault attacks, in an Integrated Circuit at RTL or Gate level, using Fault Attack Simulation (FAS)”.

 

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Becky Raymond

Optima Design Automation Increases Global Presence By Expanding Into China

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NewPlus Systems & Technologies Ltd. to provide sales and support for Optima’s functional safety and IC-security products across Mainland China and Taiwan

NAZARETH, ISRAEL, October 18, 2021 – Optima Design Automation, provider of EDA solutions and services for Automotive Functional Safety, ISO 26262 compliance and IC-Security, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with NewPlus, with offices in Shanghai and Beijing, China. This partnership will provide access for Chinese semiconductor companies to leading EDA safety and security verification technologies for automotive and all safety-critical, and security-critical markets.

“We see that the Chinese market is expanding very fast and the need for functional safety is growing dramatically,” said Jamil Mazzawi, founder and CEO of Optima. “Considering the importance of this market, we want to address the growing demand for our products by providing local sales and effective support. We are thrilled to have a company as experienced and well-regarded as NewPlus be the first line of contact for our customers in China.”

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Becky Raymond

Optima Design Automation公司通过拓展中国业务提升全球影响力

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NewPlus Systems & Technologies Ltd.（新益系统技术有限公司）为Optima在中国大陆和台湾地区提供功能安全与IC安全产品的销售及业务支持

上海 , 中国, October 18, 2021 — 为汽车功能安全、符合ISO 26262标准和IC安全提供EDA解决方案和服务的Optima Design Automation很高兴地宣布与NewPlus建立战略合作伙伴关系，并在中国上海和北京设有办事处。这一合作将为中国半导体公司提供进入领先的汽车安全和EDA安全验证技术的途径，这些技术适用于汽车以及所有安全保障关键和安全防护关键领域。

“我们看到中国市场正在迅速扩张，对功能安全的需求也在急剧增长，” Optima创始人兼首席执行官Jamil Mazzawi表示，“考虑到这个市场的重要性，我们希望通过提供本地销售和有效支持来满足对我们产品不断增长的需求。我们很高兴能有像NewPlus这样经验丰富、声誉良好的公司成为我们在中国客户第一线的联系人。”

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Anastasiya Sasnakevich

Optima Design Automation Announces TUV Certification of its Entire Safety Platform for ISO 26262 ASIL-D Functional Safety Verification

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Optima's TUV Nord certification - stampOptima’s Hard Error, Soft Error and Statistical Analysis Solutions are fully certified to TCL3 by TUV NORD for immediate deployment in ISO 26262 ASIL-D projects

NAZARETH, ISRAEL – June 30th, 2021 – Optima Design Automation, a leader in next generation functional safety and IC-security verification, today announced that the internationally-recognized testing organization TÜV NORD has fully certified its entire functional safety platform for use in ISO 26262 semiconductor verification projects.

Following an extensive evaluation, the Optima-SA™, Optima-HE™, Optima-SE™, which make up the Optima Safety Platform, have been certified to the highest tool qualification level of the ISO 26262 standard. This enables the use of the Optima Safety Platform within the development of automotive safety-critical applications with an integrity level up to ASIL-D.

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Anastasiya Sasnakevich

Media Advisory: Optima to Participate at DVCon US 2021

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The Design and Verification Conference (DVCon) has gained it’s popularity in its niche as one of the top conferences for the application of languages, tools, and intellectual property for the design and verification of electronic systems and integrated circuits. DVCon US brings chip architects, systems designers, software developers, and IP integrators the latest methodologies, techniques, applications, and demonstrations on the practical use of EDA and IP languages and standards used in electronic design.

Caused by Covid-19 all the conferences have been switched to online mode for over a year, and DVCon US’21 is not an exception. This year’s conference is to held virtually and as a participant, Optima is conducting a workshop.

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Habib Karam

Media Advisory: Optima’s Participation at DVCon Europe 2020

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The Design and Verification Conference (DVCon) is the premier conference for the application of languages, tools, and intellectual property for the design and verification of electronic systems and integrated circuits. Sponsored by Accellera Systems Initiative, DVCon Europe brings chip architects, systems designers, software developers, and IP integrators the latest methodologies, techniques, applications, and demonstrations on the practical use of EDA and IP languages and standards used in electronic design.

Due to Covid-19 and travel restrictions, this year’s DVCon Europe will hold a virtual conference and as a participant, Optima will be conducting life, virtual demos. You can join us at our virtual exhibition room/booth.

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Habib Karam

Media Advisory: Optima’s DVCon U.S. Participation

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WHO

Optima Design automation, a pioneer in Functional Safety and ISO 26262 fault analysis technology targeting hard and soft error analysis for accelerated semiconductor development of up to 1,000X performance improvement over traditional fault simulation for automotive and other safety critical applications

WHAT

Due to travel restrictions associated with the Coronavirus, Optima’s team to DVCon was not able to attend DVCon in person. Instead, Optima will be conducting live, virtual demos from their Booth #406 at DVCon. Attendees are invited to stop by during show hours to meet with Optima’s CEO Jamil Mazzawi for a one on one conversation about specific Functional Safety and ISO-26262 design challenges or a quick demonstration of the company’s next generation functional safety products.

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Becky Raymond

Optima Design Automation Launches with Focus on Next-Generation Semiconductor Functional Safety Tools

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Revolutionary, High-Performance Optima Safety Platform Propels Range of High-Coverage Safety Solutions for Automotive ISO 26262 Fault Analysis

NAZARETH, ISRAEL – October 29, 2019 – Optima Design Automation a provider of advanced, unique semiconductor safety verification solutions based on a revolutionary, new fault analysis technology platform, launched today at the DVCon Europe event in Munich. Optima enables dramatic improvements in semiconductor safety verification time and coverage for safety-critical applications such as automotive semiconductor devices.

Optima also announced the commercial release of its Optima Safety Platform with an initial range of automated solutions for hard-error (permanent) and soft-error (transient) fault analysis, coverage maximization and static analysis. Based on 27 person-years of development, the Optima Safety Platform is already in evaluation at leading automotive semiconductor providers.

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