Aldec

ALDEC, Inc.
Private
Industry EDA
Founded 1984
Headquarters Henderson, Nevada,
United States
Products Active-HDL, ALINT, Riviera-PRO, Spec-TRACER, HES-DVM, HES-7
Website aldec.com

Aldec, Inc. is a privately owned electronic design automation company, and provides software and hardware used in creation and verification of digital designs targeting FPGA and ASIC technologies. Headquartered in Henderson, Nevada, Aldec also has offices resp. development centers in Europe (UK), Japan, Israel, India, China, Taiwan, Poland and Ukraine.
As a member of Accellera and IEEE Standards Association Aldec actively participates in the process of developing new standards and updating existing standards (e.g. VHDL, SystemVerilog).
Aldec provides HDL simulation engine for other EDA tools (e.g. Altium Designer[1]) and bundles special version of its tools with FPGA vendors software (e.g. Lattice[2]).

History

Products

Software

Hardware

Education

Aldec provides fully functional, heavily discounted versions of its software for educational institutions worldwide (Kumaon Engineering College, National Technology University).

Aldec also offers a special Student-Edition of Active-HDL, downloadable from Aldec's website. The Student-Edition has limited design capacity and some reduction of program functionality, but supports both design languages (Verilog resp. VHDL).

The company also supports local education - in 1999 it contributed to the establishment of the "Aldec Digital Design Laboratory" at the UNLV.[5]

Aldec software is packaged with several electronic design related books (e.g. "Digital Design: Principles and Practices", "CONTEMPORARY LOGIC DESIGN").

Student Edition of Active-HDL was the first HDL simulator to be sold at Walmart.[6]

See also

References

  1. EETimes News,"Aldec FPGA simulation added to Altium Designer", EETimes.com, 2010/5/25
  2. EN-genius Programmable logic ZONE, "Lattice And Aldec Form Alliance For FPGA Design And Design Verification"
  3. Richard Goering, "Aldec rolls out Linux-based mixed-language simulator", EETimes.com, November 13, 2000
  4. Christine Evans-Pughe, "Protecting your IP just got simpler", Paragraph 11, Electronics Weekly, October 13, 2006
  5. ECE-UNLV staff, "ALDEC, (...) plays a significant role in ECE programs", Page 3, ECE-UNLV News, Vol 5, 2005
  6. EDN Online Staff, "EDA Software Sold in Walmart.", EDN, February 20, 2006

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