TAIPEI, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aldec, Inc., a global leader in electronic design verification, today announces that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Avnet Electronics Marketing Asia. The agreement between Aldec and Avnet, one of the world’s largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and embedded technology, will serve the Asia Pacific region. Under the terms of the agreement, Avnet Electronics Marketing will promote and distribute Active-HDL (Designer Edition), Aldec’s mixed-language FPGA design creation and simulation product.
“We are excited to have a strong partner to cover the increasing number of FPGA designers in Asia seeking mixed-language simulation and support for the most advanced FPGAs on the market,” said David Rinehart, Vice President of Aldec, Inc. “Aldec offices throughout China, Taiwan and India will work closely with Avnet Asia technical resources to provide world-class technical support and a scalable migration path to advanced verification solutions for SystemVerilog, SystemC and 64-bit operating systems.”
“As one of the largest FPGA distributors in China, the Avnet team will promote the Active-HDL from Aldec into our FPGA customer base,” said Victor Koh, Regional President of Avnet Memec China.
Active-HDL was awarded the 2010 Best FPGA Development Tool by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China. The award recognized Active-HDL as the superior choice for FPGA designers in China based on its powerful, easy-to-use FPGA design creation, project management, mixed VHDL and Verilog verification, and excellent documentation toolset.
About Active-HDL (Designer Edition)
Active-HDL is an integrated FPGA design and verification environment with a powerful mixed-language simulator and tools for graphical design entry, project management, and HDL verification, providing an efficient (FPGA vendor-independent) environment for end-to-end design processing. A multi-vendor flow manager controls simulation, synthesis and implementation for all devices from all leading FPGA vendors. Active-HDL comes with pre-compiled FPGA vendor libraries that include SecureIP libraries as well. HDL language support: VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog. For more on Active-HDL visit www.aldec.com/Products/Active-HDL.
About Aldec
Aldec, Inc., is an industry leader in Electronic Design Verification and offers a patented technology suite including: RTL Design, RTL Simulators, Hardware-Assisted Verification, Design Rule Checking, IP Cores, DO-254 Functional Verification and Military/Aerospace solutions. To learn more visit www.aldec.com and follow Aldec on Twitter @ http://twitter.com/AldecInc.
About Avnet Electronics Marketing
Avnet, Inc. (NYSE: AVT), a Fortune 500 company, is one of the largest distributors of electronic components, computer products and embedded technology serving customers in more than 70 countries worldwide. Avnet accelerates its partners' success by connecting the world's leading technology suppliers with a broad base of more than 100,000 customers by providing cost-effective, value-added services and solutions. For the fiscal year ended July 3, 2010, Avnet generated revenue of $19.16 billion. For more information, visit www.avnet.com.
Avnet is a trademark of Avnet, Inc, Active-HDL and Aldec are trademarks of Aldec, Inc. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.