Let me acknowledge up front that Avery isn’t the most visible EDA company around. If you know of them, you probably know their X-propagation simulator. Widely respected and used, satisfying a specialized need. They have also been quietly building over the years a stable of VIPs and happy customers, with a special focus on VIPs for PCIe and standards building on PCIe such as NVMe, CXL and CCIX. All hot standards in data centers. Avery claims, and I have no reason to doubt them, that they are the #1 provider of VIPs in this area.

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