Breker Verification Systems

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Overview

Breker Verification Systems is a venture-backed, privately-held EDA company supplying graph-based functional test synthesis tools that solve functional verification challenges in today’s complex designs.

Breker was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Products

Trek™ is a functional test synthesis tool that develops functional verification tests for complex digital designs. Using a visual graph-based verification plan and generating test directly from the plan, Trek makes the entire process easy and systematic:

Using patented technology that combines graphs with dependency resolution, Breker’s software reduced the verification effort by over a factor of 10, resulting in first-silicon success for numerous customers.

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External links

* http://www.brekersystems.com