Mission Statement
To exceed our customers' expectations and maintain our leadership position as an electronic design verification company through continuous innovation, superior product quality and exemplary customer service.
History and Background
Headquartered in Henderson, Nevada - USA, Aldec®, Inc. is an industry-leading EDA verification company. Founded in 1984 by Dr. Stanley M. Hyduke, Aldec delivers high quality, performance-driven EDA products for government, military, aerospace, telecommunications, automotive and control applications. The company specializes in design development and verification technologies for complex FPGA, ASIC, SoC and embedded system designs. Aldec is a global EDA company serving engineering design teams worldwide with more than 30,000 customers, 50 global partners+, and employs over 160 sales, support and engineering professionals. Aldec has direct offices in the USA, Japan, China and Europe and a global sales distribution network in over 43 countries worldwide.
Market and Industry Overview
The electronic design automation (EDA) industry, comprised of computer-aided engineering (CAE), IC layout, PCB & MCB, SIP and services, has a projected combined annual gross revenue increase of approximately 11 percent for 2008 with a market revenue estimation of over 2.2 billion. Cyclical growth patterns in the semiconductor industry are a major contributor to the EDA growth forecast. For engineering customers, the design industry has been moving towards muti-core, multiprocessor architecture and system-on-a-chip solutions. The trend towards smaller process geometries is the prevailing challenge for EDA tools designers. Responding to new demands, Aldec supports new design and programming languages, new operating systems and hardware platforms and is consistently moving to higher abstraction level system designs.
Aldec provides (CAE) solutions, semiconductor intellectual property (IP) and engineering services for ASIC and FPGA design engineers worldwide. Aldec solutions and services are being used for system-on-chip, embedded applications, network-on-chip, video processing, industrial controls and many other applications, across Communications, Military, Aerospace, Automotive, Industrial, Communications, government, data processing/storage and broadcast industries. Fortune 500 companies are utilizing Aldec EDA verification suites to boost product performance, cut design development cycles and reduce cost. Our customers include IBM, GE, Texas Instruments, HP, Toshiba, Intel, NEC, Mitsubishi Electric, LG, Hitachi, NASA, Raytheon, Panasonic, Lockheed Martin, Samsung, and many others.
Celebrated Milestones
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- 2008: Released ALINT™ - Design Ruler Checker (STARC – Japanese Consortium of 11 ASIC Companies)
- 2007: Released DO254-CTS (Compliance Tool Set)
- 2007: Signed Strategic OEM agreement with Lattice® Semiconductor Nasdaq: LSCC
- 2007: Released Actel Prototyping Solution – RTAX-S Antifuse to Flash device
- 2006: EETIMES Ranked Aldec no. 3 in FPGA User Survey (behind Synplicity and Altera)
- 2006: 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
- 2002: 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™ a windows based Schematic and gate level Simulator
- 1985: SUSIE™ (Standard Universal Simulator for Improved Engineering), DOS-Based
- 1984: Company Established
Technology Leadership
Aldec, Inc. is an industry-leading EDA verification company that offers a patented performance suite of robust EDA verification products, offering the latest technological solutions including: design entry and creation software, software simulators, management software, LINTING software, prototyping, hardware accelerators, hardware emulators, co-verification solutions, IP Cores and engineering specialty solutions, for engineering design teams worldwide.
Patented Technology
US Patent#5,479,355 - System and Method for a Closed Loop Operation of Schematic Designs with Electrical Hardware
US Patent#6,578,133 - MIMD Array of Single Bit Processors for Processing Logic Equations in Strict Sequential Order.
US Patent#5,051,938 - Simulation of Selected Logic Circuit Designs
US Patent#4,827,427 - Instantaneous Incremental Compiler for Producing Logic Circuit Designs
US Patent#4,791,357 - Electronic Circuit Board Testing System and Method
US Patent#7,003,746 – Method and apparatus for accelerating the verification of application specific integrated circuit designs.
US Patent 6,915,410 -Compiler synchronized multi-processor programmable logic device with direct transfer of computation results among processors
Several other Patents Pending
Sales and Distribution Channels
Aldec corporate offices are located in the U.S.A., Japan, France and China and may be found in the (contacts) section of this website. Aldec provides a global sales distribution network in over 43 countries worldwide including: United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Sweden, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Italy, Russian Federation, Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Lithuania, Georgia, Armenia, Moldavia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, China, India, Israel, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, USA, Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela, and South Africa. To contact a sales office near you, go to (contacts) section of this website.
Service and Support
Customer satisfaction is our top priority. Aldec provides industry leading service and support as ranked by the top publications in the industry such as EE Times. All Aldec products include the first year of software maintenance and technical support. Aldec offers extensive web-enabled resources, including online support case reporting and tracking, documentation, a technical knowledge base, online video tutorials, technical trainings, downloads and multimedia archives. Our customer-centric business model employs sales and service methodologies that ensure total customer satisfaction.