Company Overview

Aldec, Inc. is an industry-leading Electronic Design Automation (EDA) company delivering innovative design creation, simulation and verification solutions to assist in the development of complex FPGA, ASIC, SoC and embedded system designs. View Product Line (pdf)

With an active user community of over 35,000, 50+ global partners, offices worldwide and a global sales distribution network in over 43 countries, the company has established itself as a proven leader within the verification design community.

Market

Aldec market share is estimated at 38% of all mixed-language RTL Simulators sold to FPGA designers worldwide. (Excludes OEM simulators supplied directly from FPGA vendors).

Aldec delivers high quality EDA solutions for government, military, aerospace, telecommunications, automotive and safety critical applications. Large companies including IBM, GE, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Applied Micro, Hewlett Packard, Toshiba, Intel, NEC, Mitsubishi, LG, Hitachi, NASA, Invensys, Westinghouse, Raytheon, Panasonic, Lockheed Martin, Samsung, as well as mid-size and small firms utilize Aldec EDA verification suites to boost product performance, cut design development cycles and reduce cost.

Technology Patents

US Patent#4,791,357: Electronic circuit board testing system and method
US Patent#4,827,427: Instantaneous incremental compiler for producing logic circuit
US Patent#5,479,355: System and method for closed loop operation of schematic designs with electrical hardware
US Patent#5,051,938: Simulation of selected logic circuit designs
US Patent#6,578,133: MIMD Array of Single Bit Processors for Processing Logic Equations in Strict Sequential Order
US Patent#6,915,410: Compiler synchronized multi-processor programmable logic device with direct transfer of computation results among processor
US Patent#7,003,746: Method and apparatus for accelerating the verification of application specific integrated circuit designs

Milestones
2021
Releases Multi-FPGA Partitioning Solution for ASIC/SoC Prototyping on AWS Releases Active-HDL 12.0 with VHDL 2019 Support
2020
Delivers RISC-V IP/SoC Verification Solution Releases RTL Simulation Acceleration for Microchip FPGAs Adds Tool Qual Data Package to ALINT-PRO for DO-254 Projects Releases Riviera-PRO 2020.04 with VHDL 2019 Support
2019
Adds Embedded Development Platform for Microsemi® Polarfire™ and SmartFusion2™ Provides the most-comprehensive portfolio of FMC daughter cards Releases SyntHESer, high-speed synthesis tool Celebrates 35 years in EDA
2018
Adds RDC Verification to ALINT-PRO Releases Networking embedded solution QuickLogic Announces Partnership with Aldec for eFPGA Simulation Flow
2017
Adds SystemVerilog DRC to ALINT-PRO FPGA-based Accelerator for High Frequency Trading platforms HW/SW Co-Simulation and Co-Debugging of Xilinx Zynq PS and PL Introduces Finite Statement Machine Coverage for Safety-Critical FPGAs Multi-FPGA Partitioning for ASIC Prototyping in HES-DVM
2016
Releases ADAS embedded solution Adds largest Xilinx® Ultrascale™ to HES Emulation/Prototyping platform Releases TySOM Product Line based on Xilinx® Zynq™ main boards and FMC daughter cards Pre-Silicon Verification Spectrum for digital ASIC designs
2015
Introduces Hybrid Co-Emulation with ARM® Fast Models Delivers 50+ successful DO-254 projects supported by CTS physical test systems Releases ALINT-PRO with CDC Verification Largest FPGA-based prototyping system at 288M ASIC gates
2014
Celebrates 30 years in EDA Releases Active-HDL 10.1 with 64-bit simulation support Elbit Systems deploys Aldec DO-254/CTS Delivers Visual Mapping Solution for UVM Verification Environments Solves DO-254 challenge by adding Requirements Reviewer to Spec-TRACER™ Supports UVM 1.2 Library
2013
Distributes NEC CyberWorkBench® high level synthesis solution Releases Spec-TRACER™ Requirements Lifecycle Management Launches Fast Track online training Hitachi deploys ALINT™ on next-gen FPGA design
2012
Enters SoC/ASIC Prototyping Market with HES-7 Best FPGA Design & Verification Platform Provider, China Releases Aldec Cloud Launches DO-254 Training Program Jointly launches OSVVM, VHDL Verification
2011
Opens Office in the UK Supporting Europe Avnet Asia Pacific Distributes Aldec FPGA Simulator UVM 1.0, OVM 2.1.2 & VMM 1.1.1a Support Mirror-Box™ Debugging Technology Releases 4 MHz Design Emulator Best FPGA Design & Verification Platform Provider, China
2010
Altium Embeds Aldec Simulator in Altium Designer Active-HDL: Best FPGA Design & Simulation Tool in China Opens Offices in Taiwan and Israel Releases Support for VHDL IEEE 1076-2008
2009
Avnet Japan Distributes Aldec FPGA Simulator Releases DO-254 Design Rule Library for ALINT Opens Office in India
2008
Releases ALINT™: Design Rule Checker (STARC – Japanese Consortium of 11 ASIC Companies)
2007
Opens Office in Japan Released DO254-CTS (Compliance Test System) Signed Strategic OEM agreement with Lattice® Semiconductor Nasdaq: LSCC Released Actel Prototyping Solution – RTAX-S Antifuse to Flash device
2006
EETIMES Ranked Aldec no. 3 in FPGA User Survey (behind Synplicity and Altera) Opens Offices in Beijing and Shanghai, China Awarded Patent ClockConversion™ (ASIC Clocks to FPGA Technology Conversion)
2005
Released Optimized Verilog Simulator, based on support 32 and 64-bit Simulation Technology
2004
Released SystemVerilog and SystemC System Level Design Tools
2003
Released HES™ Hardware Emulation, Acceleration and Prototyping Solutions
2002
Released Riviera-PRO™: Common Kernel, Multi-platform Mixed HDL Software Simulator Named 2002 Southern Nevada Distinguished Business of the Year, Nevada Economic Commission
2000
Signed Strategic OEM agreement with Synplicity® Nasdaq: SYNP
1999
Signed Strategic OEM agreement with Cypress® NYSE: CY
1997
Released Active-HDL™: Graphical Design Entry and Mixed Language Simulator
1996
Signed Strategic OEM agreement with Xilinx® Nasdaq: XLNX
1992
Released Active-CAD™ Releases Active-CAD™ - a Windows Based Schematic & Gate Level Simulator
1985
Releases SUSIE™ (Standard Universal Simulator for Improved Engineering), DOS Simulator
1984
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