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News Release from: HDL Works | Subject: HDL Companion 2.0
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 26 January 2006
Editing environment makes sense of HDL
code
In addition to many smaller improvements in performance and ease of use, major new features in HDL Companion 2.0 are focused on design exploration and VHDL/Verilog linting.
HDL Works has released a new version of HDL Companion, the HDL analysis, navigation and editing environment HDL Companion is known for its extensive capability to provide the user with numerous design details by extracting these automatically from the design sources when a design directory is dragged into the global window of HDL Companion
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Software makes sense of HDL code
The latest version of HDL Companion is billed as the ideal environment for providing insight in IP, integrating IP with new code and keeping overview of complex HDL designs.
VHDL, Verilog and mixed language designs are supported.
Synthesis and simulation tool interfaces are built in, optimising the user's edit-compile-debug cycle.
In addition to many smaller improvements in performance and ease of use, major new features in HDL Companion 2.0 are focused on design exploration and VHDL/Verilog linting.
Evaluation of many public domain HDL cores showed the need for affordable linting capabilities.
Most designs still have unconnected signals and ports, unused declarations and empty statements.
HDL Companion locates those issues in seconds and offers improvement on readability and simulation and synthesis performance.
HDL Companion is like a Swiss Army knife.
It provides the HDL design engineer with very many different features like: syntax checking, design exploration and navigation, signal tracing, linting, HDL sensitive editor, global search and replace, HTML generator, source revision control and an EDA tools configurator.
It is easy to use, affordable and should be present in each designer's toolbox.
HDL Companion saves many, many hours while exploring and understanding an HDL design.
Even incomplete designs and design code with syntax errors is accepted by HDL Companion, so design information can be gathered without being forced to debug the unknown erroneous code first.
HDL Companion 2.0 is available now.
Prices begin at US $1295.
HDL Companion can be downloaded for a free 10-day evaluation from the company's website.
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