• 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

Management

Adnan Hamid, Chief Executive Officer

Adnan is the founder CEO of Breker, and the inventor of Trek. He has over 18 years experience in functional verification automation. Prior to Breker, he managed AMD's System Logic Division, and also led their verification team to create the first test case generator providing 100% coverage for a x86-class microprocessor. The internal software has been the lead verification tool for AMD's microprocessor family of products and was still in production use for more than 10 years by the time Adnan ended his tenure at the company. In addition, Adnan spent several years at Cadence Design Systems and served as the subject matter expert in System Level Verification, developing system-level verification solutions for Texas Instruments, Siemens/Infineon, Motorola/Freescale and General Motors.

Adnan holds 9 patents in test case generation and synthesis. He received BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University, and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dave Johnson, Vice President of Sales

Dave brings more than 20 years of experience to Breker Verification Systems, most recently as owner and president of FirstShift Technologies, a company focused on sales and business development for startup EDA companies. Prior to starting FirstShift in 2006, Dave worked for a variety of EDA companies including Nascentric, Cadence, Neolinear, Avanti and Xynetix. At Neolinear, Dave held the Vice President of Sales position for 4 years and helped successfully merge Neolinear into Cadence. Prior to his career in sales, Dave was an ASIC designer at VLSI Technology.

Dave holds a BSEE from the University of Cincinnati.

Rick Nordin, Vice President of Strategic Marketing

Rick comes to Breker with a 19-year track record in EDA. Prior to joining the Breker team, he served as Marketing Director at Nascentric and at Silicon Design Systems, as sales manager for Circuit Semantics, as methodology consultant for Cadence and as District Technical Manager for Synopsys. Rick began his engineering career as a hardware designer with AMD in Austin, Texas.

Rick holds a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from the University of Phoenix.

Maheen Hamid, Chief Financial Officer

Maheen brings more than 12 years of financial experience in deal structuring and operations management for small to medium sized businesses in diverse industries including wireless telecommunications, clean energy, emerging markets' infrastructure development, management consulting and investment banking.

Maheen holds a BBA from the North South University and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin.