Altium Chooses Verific's HDL Component Software for Verilog Support to Nexar; Verific HDL Component Software Enhance FPGA Digital Design System.ALAMEDA, Calif. & SYDNEY, Australia -- Verific Design Automation and Altium Limited, a leading developer of Windows-based electronics design software, announced that Altium is using Verific Design Automation's hardware description language (language) Hardware Description Language - (HDL) A kind of language used for the conceptual design of integrated circuits. Examples are VHDL and Verilog. (HDL (Hardware Description Language) A language used to describe the functions of an electronic circuit for documentation, simulation or logic synthesis (or all three). Although many proprietary HDLs have been developed, Verilog and VHDL are the major standards. ) Component Software in Nexar, the industry's first comprehensive, vendor-independent solution for embedded system-level design on an FPGA-platform. Verific's HDL Component Software includes C++ source code-based parsers, analyzers and elaborators for Verilog and VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) A hardware description language (HDL) used to design electronic systems at the component, board and system level. VHDL allows models to be developed at a very high level of abstraction. that are tightly integrated with Nexar. Altium recently announced the expansion of HDL capabilities of Nexar with the introduction of support for Verilog through a license agreement with Verific to use its HDL Component Software (refer to Altium's November 9, 2004, press release). Designers using Nexar now have complete freedom in the choice of capture language. They can use any combination of block diagram, VHDL and Verilog to capture circuit hardware for FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) A type of gate array that is programmed in the field rather than in a semiconductor fab. Containing up to hundreds of thousands of gates, there are a variety of FPGA architectures on the market. implementation. Using Nexar, designers require little or no experience using HDLs or register transfer level (RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; ) source code in order to put systems onto an FPGA. Instead, Nexar enables designers to use familiar, board-level design methodologies to interactively design and implement a complete embedded system inside an FPGA, making the potential of FPGA-based embedded systems design accessible to all engineers. Says Nick Martin, Altium's founder and joint CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. : "We felt that it was crucial to provide strong support for Verilog within Nexar. Rather than developing our own parsers and analyzers, we found that Verific's well-engineered and reliable HDL Component Software was the right fit for our needs. We can focus on other aspects of Nexar, and strengthen its position as the universal design system of choice for FPGA-based systems development." "Altium is breaking new ground for embedding systems on FPGAs and it gives us great pleasure to be able to help make this happen," adds Michiel Ligthart, Verific's chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . About Altium Altium Limited (ASX ASX See: Australian Stock Exchange : ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) The high-speed CPU circuit that does calculating and comparing. Numbers are transferred from memory into the ALU for calculation, and the results are sent back into memory. Alphanumeric data are sent from memory into the ALU for comparing. ) is a global developer and supplier of electronics design software for the Microsoft Windows environment. Founded in 1985, Altium released the world's first Microsoft Windows-based printed circuit board design tool in 1991 and continues to provide advanced, easy-to-use and affordable software design tools to electronics engineers, designers, and developers worldwide. Altium's products offer tailored solutions covering a range of hardware and software design processes including the Nexar, Protel, P-CAD and TASKING brands. Altium is headquartered in Sydney, Australia and has sales and support offices in Australia, the United States, Japan, Europe and China. More information is available at www.altium.com. About Verific Design Automation Verific Design Automation was founded in 1999 by electronic design automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ) industry veteran Rob Dekker. It develops and sells C++ source code-based SystemVerilog, Verilog and VHDL front ends -- parsers, analyzers and elaborators -- as well as a generic hierarchical netlist database for EDA applications. Verific's technology has been licensed in many applications, combined shipping more than 45,000 end-user copies. Corporate headquarters is located at: 1516 Oak Street, Suite 115, Alameda, Calif. 94501. Telephone: (510) 522-1555. Facsimile number: (510) 522-1553. Email: info@verific.com. Website: http://www.verific.com. Altium, CAMtastic, CircuitStudio, Design Explorer, DXP, LiveDesign, NanoBoard, Nexar, nVisage, NanoTalk, P-CAD, Protel, Situs [Latin, Situation; location.] The place where a particular event occurs. For example, the situs of a crime is the place where it was committed; the situs of a trust is the location where the trustee performs his or her duties of managing the trust. , TASKING, and Topological Autorouting and their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of Altium Limited or its subsidiaries. All other registered or unregistered trademarks referenced herein are the property of their respective owners, and no trademark rights to the same are claimed. Verific Design Automation acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services. |
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