Aldec Design and Verification Blog

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....

This week, February 22-28, we celebrate National Engineers Week in the US to recognize the contributions to society that engineers make. During this time, there is added emphasis in schools on the importance of learning...

“USEFUL” is a word you’ll hear a lot over here at Aldec. It’s the number one way we rank our success when developing a new product or feature. “How USEFUL is it?” is the most common phrase we challenge one another...

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....

As I wrote on AgileSoC.com recently, Aldec users have something to get excited about as SVUnit now supports Riviera-PRO™, Aldec’s advanced verification platform. SVUnit is an open-source test framework for ASIC and FPGA developers...

I'm not the first engineer to suggest that utilising Python for verification could be a big leap forward for the EDA industry.  The big vendors haven’t (yet) embraced this suggestion, so why am I still convinced Python is the way forward?...

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...

When I first launched Aldec in 1984, home computers hadn’t quite taken off and innovations such as the compact disk and those oversized, power draining cellphones were still struggling to obtain mass acceptance....

COMRATE™, the co-simulation solution developed by Aldec and Agilent is a lot like “couples-therapy” that can help get your digital blocks talking to the rest of your model-based design....