• Trek technology will help to achieve a higher level of verification on SoC designs and provide a 2-3X reduction of effort.   Olivier Haller
    Verification Methodology Manager
    ST Microelectronics
  • We have seen 2x improvements in verification productivity using Trek   Jonah Alben
    Senior Vice President
    NVIDIA Corporation
  • The engineering team continues to 'Brekerize' the latest design revisions.   Terry Hulett
    Vice President, Engineering
    NetEffect
  • Their [Breker] SoC verification strategy proposal is solid and we are happy of the improvements it brings to our flow.  Design Verification Engineer
    Verification Guild/ “Anybody use these tools?”
  • Trek is reducing development time, improving coverage and easing communication between the various verification stakeholders   Olivier Haller
    Verification Methodology Manager
    ST Microelectronics
  • I was impressed with how easy it [Trek] was to integrate it into our existing environment. The graph based approach to generating testcases complements our exiting VMM constrained random test-benches very well.   Design Verification Engineer
    Verification Guild/ “Anybody use these tools?”
  • [We] are now using Trek in key areas of future GPU projects   Jonah Alben
    Senior Vice President
    NVIDIA Corporation
  • They [Breker] leverage an already existing testsuite to create more stressful SoC tests   Design Verification Engineer
    Verification Guild/ “Anybody use these tools?”
  • Trek is so verstile, that I was able to plug in a Trek graph that modeled the DUT in place of the DUT (whose RTL for some features wasn't ready) allowing me to develop trek graphs that would test features that weren't even implemented yet.   Design Verification Engineer Verification Guild/ “Anybody use these tools?”
  • In both the SystemC and RTL verification efforts, Breker's Trek product was able to help us find deep state functional bugs quickly and efficiently   Terry Hulett
    Vice President, Engineering
    NetEffect
    • Trek has a natural way of implementing a test environment with knowledge-driven approach of directed tests and the flexibility of incorporating randomness into the scenario generation and checking   Design Verification Engineer
    Verification Guild/ “Anybody use these tools?”
  • Constraint solving is really nice when it works. It's a declarative approach that lets you worry about the what, not the how. Trek uses an more imperative approach: you define a graph structure to be traversed. For trivial scenarios this is less elegant than a set of constraints; but as things become more complex you don't hit the performance cliff of constraint solving.   David Whipp, NVIDIA Corp.
    Verification Guild/ “Anybody use these tools?”
  • With Breker, we can provide a higher level of verification efficiency with improved coverage closure in pre-silicon and post-silicon verification activities for our customers.   François Cerisier
    IC Verification Expert
    EASii IC
  • Viewing the coverage capability of the graph was very effective in visualizing what had and had not been verified (helping answer the question ‘Are we done yet?’).   Design Verification Engineer
    Verification Guild/ “Anybody use these tools?”
  • Trek is more effective on complex designs. It really helps get to deep corner cases that aren't easily hit.   Design Verification Engineer
    Verification Guild/ “Anybody use these tools?”
  • My first impression was to use Trek simply as a testcase creation engine but slowly I'm getting convinced it is useful as "checker" as well - especially the end-to-end checks.   Design Verification Engineer
    Verification Guild/ “Strategy for System-on-Chip Verification”
  • Breker System's Trek tool has been refreshing. A new look at how to do functional verification. As a verification engineer, we all look at outcomes to figure out our testplan. Breker takes that to a new level where we can create graphs based on outcomes and even more power comes when one can apply a static analysis to see if all outcomes can really be reached by what was created.   Verification Engineer
    DeepChip
  • The one that sticks out for me was Breker Trek. I've been keeping an eye on their development of the tool for a while, and saw a demo. I like that it translates from our feature-based verification planning to what looks like straightforward coding of graphs to randomly verify.   Design Verification Engineer
    DeepChip/DAC 10

Careers

Breker enables its team members to participate in a dynamic atmosphere. If you seek a challenging career in our field and would like to be in a work environment that is rewarding, achievement oriented, exciting, and focused on team success, Breker is interested in hearing from you.


Current Opening:
Job Category: Applications Services
Business Title: Applications Engineer
Job Location: Bay Area, CA
Job Description:
Breker Applications Engineer (AE) is an experienced SoC verification specialist with clear understanding of verification methodologies and flows, who will drive customer use, revenue growth and facilitate sales of Breker solutions for SoC verification.
The AE is responsible for supporting customer engagements and rolling out new verification methodologies to the customers by providing training and technical support. The AE will influence product definition and direction by collecting customer feedback. The AE supports the sales organization through product demonstrations, competitive benchmarks and evaluations. The AE plays an active role in account planning, where they work as a part of the account team to develop the solutions to customer problems by using their in depth knowledge of customer challenges and issues.

Educational/ Experience requirements:
* BSEE/BSCS. Masters in EE or CS a plus.
* 5-15 years industry experience, with specific emphasis on design verification, required. Must have at least 5 years of recent hands on experience in design verification. Desired experience includes technical pre-sales/consulting activities at customer sites delivering face-to-face value added consulting services in a fast paced, dynamic environment.
* Experience architecting constrained random testbenches required. Experience with SoC verification a big plus.
* Literate in C coding practices, required
* Excellent communication skills, both internal and external, required
* Good interpersonal skills required. Customer sensitivity and a strong desire to help customers exploit new technologies are essential for success.
* Self starter: Must be comfortable with being the lead technical support for a territory
* Willingness to travel, required
* Excited about being part of a startup and comfortable selling new technology, required


Submit resumes to: careers@brekersystems.com