HDL WORKS PRESENTS HDL COMPANION 1.2

New features in HDL Companion provide improved design documentation capabilities of any existing HDL code.

March 2005, HDL Works announces the release and immediate availability of version 1.2 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. VHDL, Verilog and mixed language designs are supported. Synthesis and simulation tool interfaces are builtin, optimizing the user?s edit-compile-debug cycle.

What's new in HDL Companion 1.2

Next to many smaller improvements in performance and ease-of-use, major new features are focussed on documentation generation and IP usage.
HTML generation for any HDL design is now performed in seconds. Providing the user an HTML version of the code to browse through the design hierarchy, view all objects and color coded source code. This greatly enhances quick generation of detailed documentation for any HDL design.
External IP (including company legacy code and vendor libraries from Actel, Altera, Xilinx and others) can now be easily specified.

About HDL Companion

In the past a designer had to use a simple text editor and UNIX like 'grep' commands to find his way through many lines of HDL code or use a costly simulator license to understand the design structure. With HDL Companion a designer can drag and drop design files or directories into the global window and a complete design decomposition is performed in seconds, offering information regarding numerous aspects of the design.
This saves many, many hours to get an understanding of any existing HDL code. Incomplete designs and design code with syntax errors is accepted by HDL Companion, so design information can be gathered without being forced to debug that unknown erroneous code first.

Availability and Pricing

HDL Companion 1.2 is now available. Prices begin at US$1,295. HDL Companion can be downloaded for a free ten day evaluation from the company's web site: www.hdlworks.com.

About HDL Works

HDL Works develops and markets high-performance, intuitive tools for complex HDL design across a wide spectrum of applications. Its software products are available on the industry's most popular workstations and personal computer platforms. HDL Works currently holds EASE and HDL Companion in its product portfolio. Headquartered in Ede, The Netherlands, HDL Works is privately held.

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