HDL WORKS PRESENTS HDL COMPANION 2.0

New features in HDL Companion include a graphical hierarchical view, project wide search & replace and VHDL / Verilog Linting.

January 2006, HDL Works announces the release and immediate availability of version 2.0 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 2.0

Next to many smaller improvements in performance and ease-of-use, major new features are focussed on design exploration and VHDL/Verilog Linting.
Evaluation of many public domain HDL cores have shown 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.

About HDL Companion

HDL Companion is like a Swiss Army knife. It provides the HDL Design Engineer with 1001 different features like: Syntax checking, Design Exploration & Navigation, Signal Tracing, Linting, HDL Sensitive Editor, Global Search and Replace, HTML Generator, Source Revision Control and EDA Tools configurator. It is easy to use, affordable and should be present in each designers toolbox.

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 2.0 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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