Aldec's Design Flow Manager Customized for QuickLogic Devices

Provides Users With a Powerful Development Platform for Managing QuickLogic Designs

HENDERSON, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 10, 2001--Aldec, Inc., a leading supplier of HDL design entry and verification software for application specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and field programmable gate arrays, in conjunction with QuickLogic Corporation, the pioneer of ESPs (Embedded Standard Products), announced today complete support for all QuickLogic devices through Active-HDL's completely automated Design Flow Manager. Active-HDL's new Design Flow Manager supports all densities of QuickLogic devices and provides all the necessary precompiled libraries, which can be invoked during the design process. Active-HDL's Design Flow Manager allows system designers to target QuickLogic devices and includes all design components specific to QuickLogic in the process.

Active-HDL comes pre-installed with all of QuickLogic's libraries so that they can be easily accessed immediately in the design cycle. Active-HDL offers full integration with QuickLogic's high-density designs, including the industry leading pASIC® FPGA and ESP device families. All aspects of implementation can be set from directly in the Active-HDL environment. Once the user chooses which family of chips he/she will be designing, the corresponding devices are automatically listed for selection.

Aldec and QuickLogic are continuing to work in conjunction to ensure that QuickLogic designers' needs are met with the latest technologies in Active-HDL. QuickLogic's commitment to producing devices that support the highest-density FPGA designs prompted the alliance in order to provide system designers with the most advanced tools so that they could produce devices in the shortest time possible with the highest quality results.

"QuickLogic is continually engineering new devices that will support the design requirements for all FPGA designers. QuickLogic continues to provide designers with high performance devices, and Active-HDL will continue to have the latest in QuickLogic device support," stated Megan Moran, Product Marketing Manager for Active-HDL.

"We are pleased that Aldec is expanding their support for QuickLogic's ESPs and FPGAs in Active-HDL," said Mike Holmlund, product-marketing manager. "The result gives users a powerful development platform for managing their QuickLogic designs."

Active-HDL's Design Flow Manager is uniquely configured to support synthesis and implementation tools from a single environment; designers can specify the specific device support that they need for each QuickLogic design.

Availability

Both Aldec and QuickLogic are currently offering the Active-HDL environment with QuickLogic support. The product is available as either a floating or node-lock license and includes Aldec's HDL Project Manager, HDL Editor, State Machine Editor, and Block Diagram & Schematic Editors, Automatic Testbench Generation, Waveform Viewer/Editor, and a choice of VHDL, Verilog or mixed VHDL/Verilog/EDIF simulation. All sales include one year of product maintenance. To receive your FREE evaluation copy, contact Aldec at www.aldec.com.

About Aldec

Aldec, Inc. has offered PC and Workstation-based design entry and simulation solutions to FPGA and ASIC designers for more than 16 years. During this time, Aldec has signed several OEM agreements with IC vendors, such as Xilinx, Inc. (Nasdaq:XLNX - news) and Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY - news). Aldec, headquartered in Henderson, Nevada, produces a universal suite of Windows, Linux and UNIX-based EDA tools that allow design engineers to implement their designs using several different design entry methods (Schematic Capture, State Machine, Block Diagram, VHDL, Verilog or ABEL). Aldec incorporates patented simulation technology and several design entry tools to provide a complete design entry and simulation solution. Founded in 1984, the company continues to evolve in the EDA market as the fastest growing verification company in the world. Additional information about Aldec is available at http://www.aldec.com.

About QuickLogic

QuickLogic Corporation (Nasdaq:QUIK - news) introduced the Embedded Standard Product (ESP) architecture in 1998, creating a new class of semiconductor devices that combines the guaranteed performance and lower cost of standard products with the flexibility and time-to-market benefits of programmable logic. Since then, QuickLogic has developed more than 100 ESP solutions for OEMs in such markets as telecommunications and data communications; video/audio, graphics and imaging; instrumentation and test; high-performance computing; and military systems. For more information on the company and its products, please go to www.quicklogic.com.

Note to Editors: Active-HDL is a trademark of Aldec, Inc. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are property of their respective owners

     QuickLogic Corporation
     Mike Holmlund, 408/990-4043
     holmlund@quicklogic.com
        or
     Aldec, Inc.
     Megan Moran, 702/990-4400 ext. 201
     meganm@aldec.com