Aldec Design and Verification Blog

If you’re headed to DAC, you should know it's fixing to be the hottest summer ever in Austin, but for brave and hungry meatless eaters, this town is an increasingly cool destination, with creative restauranteurs finding new ways to transform meaty favorites into plant-based edible delights....

It’s been a busy season for Aldec. The weather has warmed here in the desert and as the trees and greenery enliven in spring, Aldec has also been bursting with activity. From DVCon to the International Symposium on FPGAs in the US to Embedded World ...

As I write this, I am visiting the Aldec corporate office in the US on the day following their historical presidential election. It’s been a busy travel season for this product manager, and only a few weeks ago I was at DVCon Europe in Munich - the city of pork knuckles, beer... and of course, cars. ...

For engineers, the importance of keeping active cannot be understated. When thousands of hours are spent seated in front of monitors, healthy activities such as running are more than fun... they are necessary.   At Aldec, our team...

I moved to Austin a little over a year ago, and have quickly learned that this city is a progressive blue island in a sea of red. That's the conventional wisdom, and most of the time it holds up....

There are plenty of buzzwords floating around in EDA right now - wherever you go people are talking about agile, portable stimulus or "shift-left". We attend conferences and listen to representatives from the best companies in the world...

Well folks, last call from Engineer Santa. Aldec’s #12DaysofUsefulGifts giveaway will end this Friday, December 12 at 12pm midnight Pacific Standard Time....

Happy Holidays! We’ve made it to Day 4 of Aldec’s #12DaysofUsefulGifts giveaway. If you’ve been keeping up with us on Twitter and YouTube, you know that we’ve given away some fun prizes already....

HDL design and verification engineers are being absorbed by the job market faster than universities can create them. The desperation of high tech firms is evident in aggressive job posts offering paid relocation, bonuses and other incentives....

If you attended the Monday Night Reception at DAC 2014, you were greeted with a blast of 80s pop music. If you then said to yourself, “I’d like to meet the genius behind that idea” - that would be me. A few weeks before DAC...