Translogic BV Introduces HDL Companion™

September 23, 2003, EDE, The Netherlands - As a leading developer of HDL design solutions, Translogic is continuously looking for ways to improve and advance the HDL design process. Today, Translogic releases its HDL Companion product; the ideal environment for developing, understanding and maintaining complex HDL designs.

About HDL Companion
HDL Companion is designed for the text based HDL designer. HDL Companion extracts complex design structures from HDL sources, which may consist of third party IP, legacy code and newly developed code, in just seconds. The resulting complete design decomposition offers information regarding numerous aspects of the design. This information helps in understanding unknown code and maintaining complex HDL designs.

The embedded VHDL and Verilog parsers also support incomplete design code and code that contains syntax errors.

HDL Companion allows to quickly navigate through the design and shows relationships between use and definition. It automates recurring tasks and features an extensive search functionality.

HDL Companion is design flow and methodology independent. HDL Companion's project driven approach allows to include miscellaneous files (eg synthesis scripts, PDF documentation etc.) in the environment, so that a complete project can be managed from one tool interface.

Its backend is Tcl driven and interfaces to simulator and synthesis tools from major EDA vendors. These tools can all be accessed from within HDL Companion.

HDL Companion consists of four windows including a command console. The Global Window offers a file, object and hierarchical design view, each a different way to understand all aspects of the HDL design under investigation. The tedious work of placing objects in libraries and of determining the file compilation order is automated. Lists of parameters, ports and architectures are shown for every entity or module, also showing the places where they are instantiated.

HDL Companion includes a fully featured language sensitive text editor with a multiple document interface. Enhanced editing features enable easier development of HDL code. A console window shows all errors, warnings and messages and provides hot links to the source. It is also a Tcl interpreter to execute any Tcl command or to write specific Tcl scripts to generate reports or perform specific checks.

Chris van Veenendaal, President of Translogic comments: "HDL Companion is an excellent addition to our product portfolio. With our EASE product we serve the market for graphical HDL design entry. Many VHDL and Verilog power users however are reluctant to adopt graphical HDL entry tools. HDL Companion perfectly serves them in their needs to quickly understand HDL code obtained as IP or inherited from colleagues and also guides them whilst developing new code. It also saves them from using expensive simulator licenses to perform these tasks."

The first release of HDL Companion supports VHDL, Verilog and mixed language designs for analysis and VHDL, Verilog, Java, SystemC, Tcl, EDIF, and Perl for editing.

Availability and Pricing
HDL Companion is available immediately as node-locked or floating licenses on Windows or Linux based PCs as well as UNIX based workstations from SUN and HP. HDL Companion starts at just $ 995.00.

An evaluation copy can be downloaded from the product website: www.hdlcompanion.com or from www.translogiccorp.com.

About Translogic
Founded in 1990, Translogic 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. Translogic currently holds EASE, EALE, and HDL Companion in its product portfolio. Translogic is privately held and is headquartered in Ede, The Netherlands, Keesomstraat 17, 6717AH.

Telephone: +31-318-642076, E-mail: info@translogiccorp.com, Website: www.translogiccorp.com.

Translogic's products are sold direct as well as through an extensive worldwide distribution network.

For More Information, Contact:
Luuk van Beurden
Translogic BV
Tel: +31-318-642076
Email: luuk@translogiccorp.com