Avery Design Systems provides Verilog-based functional verification software for simulating chip designs. Verilog is a hardware description language used by semiconductor developers to shorten the design cycle. The company specializes in verifying designs for Parallel ATA/Serial ATA components and for PCI Express communications interfaces. Customers have included Attansic and NextIO. Avery Design was founded in 1998 by CEO Chilai Huang, who owns the company.