SpringSoft, Inc. provides solutions that enhance verification of integrated circuits, embedded systems, and systems-on-chips. It provides debug automation and visibility enhancement solutions. The company also offers a platform for unifying multiple languages, tools, and methodologies throughout the verification flow. In addition, SpringSoft, Inc. supports the verification and assertion languages across system, RTL, and gate levels down to the silicon. Its products applications include microprocessors, specialized processors, telecommunications, graphics chips, and networking.

SpringSoft, Inc was founded in 1996 in Taiwan by Martin Lu, Johnson Teng, and Jerry Wang. In order to break into markets outside Taiwan, SpringSoft created a unique business model by setting up independent companies to market and distribute its products in North America and Europe. For its debug products, it established Novas Software, Inc. in 1997, which had the responsibility of marketing, selling and supporting the Debussy system. Soon after starting Novas, SpringSoft established Silicon Canvas to market, sell, and support the Laker system. A third company, Novaflow, was set up in Japan in 2000, as a distributor for both the verification enhancement and custom IC design products. SpringSoft later backed another company, ForteLink, which was developing hardware-assisted verification technology. These companies acted autonomously with their own management teams and boards.

In May of 2008, SpringSoft combined all these independent companies together as a single global corporate entity.

In March of 2009, SpringSoft completed the acquisition of Certess, inventors of the worldâ€™s only functional qualification solution.

Recent Milestones
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SpringSoft was acquired by Synopsys. (8/3/12)

Posted 8/3/12 at 7:17pm via prnewswire.com
SpringSoft — Xbox Team Uses SpringSoft's Verdi Debug Tool (9/7/10)

Posted 10/5/10 at 12:21pm via springsoft.com
SpringSoft acquired Certess. (3/18/09)

Posted 6/30/09 at 3:15pm via springsoft.com
SpringSoft — SpringSoft Incorporated, the largest EDA company in Asia and the first to be publicly traded (2473.TW), today announced the completion of its merger with Novas Software, Inc., the acquisition of four additional EDA companies, and several key management ap (5/27/08)

Posted 8/12/10 at 1:00pm via springsoft.com
SpringSoft added Peter Heller as Director - UK. (10/1/00)

Posted 5/24/13 at 9:40pm