HENDERSON, Nevada – July 13, 2009 – Aldec, Inc., a leader in RTL simulation and Electronic Design Automation (EDA), unveils a new low-cost mixed language RTL simulator — Active-HDL™ Designer Edition. The product closes a gap in the mixed RTL FPGA simulation market. Today, FPGA designers can purchase a high performance mixed language RTL simulator from Aldec or other commercial EDA vendors starting at $6,000 or alternatively purchase a restricted, single language, FPGA vendor supplied simulator for $1,000 or less. A price, feature and performance gap exists between the commercial EDA simulators and the FPGA vendor simulators. Active-HDL Designer Edition fills this market gap and provides FPGA designers with a mixed language simulator for less than $2,000. The product includes: industry proven IEEE mixed-language simulation support for VHDL, Verilog® and SystemVerilog (Design), 2X-plus performance gains over FPGA vendor supplied RTL simulators, encrypted IP support and no performance limitations on FPGA design size.
EDA Tool Vendor Advantages
By purchasing Active-HDL Designer Edition, FPGA designers receive technical support directly from the EDA manufacturer. Additionally, software revisions and library maintenance are the same across all configurations of Active-HDL providing a smooth upgrade path if additional functionality is required. Capabilities such as code coverage, design rule checking, DSP modeling and verification, SystemC co-simulation, transaction level modeling or assertion based verification are available.
Availability
Active-HDL Designer Edition is available today and supports Windows 32/XP/Vista operating systems. The product is offered as a one year time based license and available as either a node locked ($1,995) or floating ($2,495) license. To learn more about Active-HDL Designer Edition go to: www.aldec.com/DesignerEdition or attend our online webcast July 16, 2009, “A Look Under the Hood – $1,995 Mixed-Language FPGA Simulation”
Register for the webcast at www.aldec.com/events
About Aldec
Aldec Corporation is an industry-leader in Electronic Design Verification and offers a patented technology suite including: RTL Design, HDL Simulators, Hardware-Assisted Verification, Design Rule Checking software, co-simulation, co-verification, IP Cores, DO-254 Functional Verification and Military/Aerospace solutions. Aldec is a privately held company with continuous revenue growth, and employs approximately 200 people worldwide. Corporate Website: www.aldec.com
Active-HDL and Aldec are trademarks of Aldec Corporation. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Media Contact: Lori Nguyen
Director of Marketing
Aldec, Inc.
(702) 990-4400, ext.254
