Avery Company Summary

• Company Introducton
• Product Overview
• Management

Company Introduction

Avery Design Systems, Inc. was founded in 1998 by Chilai Huang to develop and market functional verification software.

Avery is headquartered in Andover, Ma. Avery also operates an R&D center in Taipei, Taiwan that it established in 1999.

Avery products are directly marketed and distributed throughout the U.S., Europe, and Taiwan.

The Company is privately funded.

Products Overview

Avery’s products automate the functional verification of ASIC/SOCs and systems.

The functional verification gap today exists because of significant productivity shortfalls in functional verification automation and traditional logic simulation tools and methods. Just to keep up with the increasing design complexity, verification tools and methods need to deliver 10X productivity boosts every 2 to 3 years. Some of the key challenges in verification today include:

• Access to robust and validated verification models for the latest design standards suchs as PCI Express, Advanced Switching, SATA, SAS
• Functional test generation methods to efficiently generate test scenarios to validate all key design properties including those difficult deep corner cases
• Simulation speed and capacity to handle today’s system-level verification and validating multi-million gate designs for timing closure and manufacturing test sign-off

Avery’s initial products, provide innovative simulation-based technologies to eliminate these issues and deliver 10-20X productivity improvement over today’s best practices and tools.

Management

Avery is a start-up company and its management team is integral in our new product development. We are seasoned EDA veterans and are committed to delivering the highest quality products to our customers.

Organizational Structure

Chilai Huang, President/CEO, is responsible for new product development and overall business management.

Chris Browy, VP of Sales/Marketing, is responsible for sales and product and corporate marketing functions.

Management Team

Chilai Huang, President/CEO. Mr. Huang got his Ph. D. in 1982. He has been working on the EDA business since then. He was the co-founder with Dr. Prabhu Goel of Gateway Design Automation, Inc. He and Mr. Phil Moorby worked on the language definition and first implementation of Verilog. Since then, he has been working in fault simulation, timing verification, and synthesis areas. He was responsible for Cadence’s RTL synthesis effort for several years and eventually led the whole synthesis project. He left Cadence and started Avery at 1998.

Chris Browy, Vice President of Sales/Marketing. From 1989 to 1998, Mr. Browy held various positions at Cadence Design Systems including Director of ASIC Design Services, Director of Top-down IC Design Practice, and marketing manager for synthesis, timing analysis, and test products. Prior to 1989, Mr. Browy held numerous other positions in applications engineering and hardware systems development. Mr. Browy has been responsible for system and ASIC design projects involving large-scale ATM switching systems, Non-linear digital video editing systems, and massively parallel multiprocessors. Mr. Browy received a B.S.E.E. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1984.