Solutions Overview

Even simple designs contain multiple files that are maintained in different formats and support different languages. Usually they have to be modified frequently and processed by multiple tools – simulators, synthesizers, implementation engines, etc. Aldec provides solution that lets you enter and manage your sources textually and graphically, including bidirectional conversion between code and graphics. We work with plain text, block diagrams, state diagrams, waveforms and support VHDL, Verilog, SystemC, SystemVerilog and many other design and verification languages.
Design files can be added, modified, archived, restored, compiled, simulated, synthesized, implemented without leaving one, convenient framework. Results of operations on the design sources appear in the same framework, enabling quick analysis. Internal and external tools required to process design files can be easily selected and configured. This level of flexibility is especially appreciated by engineers working with multiple vendor tools and various silicon technologies.

The times when designing digital circuits with paper and pen are gone forever… No matter if you are a beginner or experienced engineer working with digital designs, you need tools to get results faster and improve quality of your work without ruining your budget. Electronic Design Automation tools available from Aldec are powerful, flexible, field-tested yet affordable. We cover virtually all languages and methodologies that you may need in your design creation, verification and management process.

Modern designs are so big that you have to verify their behavior before silicon is manufactured. Sometimes one method of verification is not enough and you have to combine different approaches to get results faster or increase reliability of the process. Aldec offers powerful design rule checkers, simulators and co-simulation solutions that can be helpful in any design environment. No matter if working individually or in combination, they will let you deliver better designs in a shorter time.

For SoC/ASIC design and verification engineering teams struggling to verify and validate increasingly complex systems under tight time-to-market constraints, Aldec’s hardware assisted verification solutions provide an affordable and versatile unified platform for simulation acceleration, transaction level co-emulation, software validation, HW/SW co-verification and high-speed prototyping.

Prototyping is an important step in design verification. It assists in identifying problems with the design that were not detected during simulation. Due to one time programmability and high cost of RTAX-S/RTSX devices, prototyping Microsemi RT designs using the traditional approach may be prohibitively costly. Aldec offers a proven cost effective solution.

The EDIF Netlist Converter is a software application developed by Aldec to perform the automatic conversion of a RTAX EDIF netlist into a ProASIC3 EDIF netlist. The converter provides automatic replacement of the primitives between the RTAX and ProASIC3 families. The software application complements the hardware prototyping adaptor and provides a smooth transition from the Microsemi RTAX netlist to a ProASIC3 netlist in order to utilize the flash based architecture for the purpose of prototyping. The converter uses the RTAX EDIF netlist as an input. After processing the converter generates an equivalent ProASIC3 EDIF netlist.

RTCA/DO-254 “Design Assurance Guidance for Airborne Electronic Hardware” and EUROCAE/ED-80 are means of compliance and guidance for the design assurance of complex electronic hardware such as FPGAs, PLDs and ASICs in airborne systems. DO-254 is currently enforced by the FAA via the Advisory Circular (AC) 20-152. Aldec offers the most comprehensive tools and solutions for DO-254 compliance. From planning to detailed design, from simulation to hardware testing, Aldec’s tools have been implemented and deployed by several major avionics companies and accepted by DO-254 DERs worldwide.

Sometimes general-purpose tools and methodologies are not enough – you need something that addresses very specific needs of your design. It can be interface enabling/enhancing data exchange between different tools, hardware addressing specific verification problems or mixture of both. Aldec provides solutions that cover Military/Aerospace, DSP, prototyping and many others.