Aldec Facilitates Design Prototyping in FPGA and Prototype Testing with New HES Proto-AXI

HENDERSON, Nev.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Aldec, Inc., a pioneer in mixed HDL language simulation and
hardware-assisted verification for FPGA and ASIC designs, has unveiled
the latest release of HES Proto-AXI™, the company’s software package
serving as a Host-to-FPGA bridge in FPGA-based prototyping as well as
High Performance Computing (HPC) applications.

Release 2018.12 features new HES board HES-XCVU9P-ZU7EV support
including a comprehensive collection of FPGA prototyping resources, such
as Vivado board definitions and sample designs. The other important
component of the package, HES Proto-AXI module, now includes interrupt
support and a Python API.

Board packages provided by the latest release facilitate the development
of an FPGA-based prototype and its operating environment. Board
definition files enable the quick connection of the design to on-board
peripherals in the Xilinx Vivado design environment. Moreover, sample
projects contain complete source codes and can be used as starting
points for the user’s applications. This greatly improves productivity
and shortens the total time of the overall prototyping stage.

The new HES Proto-AXI provides a unique host interface with AMBA AXI4
interconnect that can be used to bridge the prototyped design to either
a PC host (via PCIe interface) or a Xilinx Zynq/ARM Cortex embedded
host. In addition, interrupts support is a new feature of HES Proto-AXI
2018.12. It allows for the replacement of register pooling with
asynchronous interrupt events from hardware to software, thus enabling
more robust test applications. The addition of a Python wrapper to HES
Proto-AXI API further empowers rapid software development.

With such strong software support and a ready-to-use HES Proto-AXI Host
Interface, Aldec HES boards can also be used as hardware accelerators
for algorithms in HPC as well as High Frequency Trading (HFT)
applications.

“The new release of HES Proto-AXI has been eagerly awaited by our
customers, who always seek reliable prototyping resources in addition to
hardware products. Aldec hardware solutions always come with software
support,” said Zibi Zalewski, General Manager of Aldec’s Hardware
Division. “As engineers ourselves, we empathize with our users. We
understand the technical and schedule pressure they are facing. We
therefore developed our HES boards with the HES Proto-AXI software
package, which contains reusable prototype building blocks, to
accelerate prototype development.”

Availability

The new HES Proto-AXI™ 2018.12 software is available now. To learn more
or to evaluate HES Proto-AXI, please visit www.aldec.com,
e-mail sales@aldec.com, call +1
(702) 990-4400, or contact one of Aldec’s worldwide
distribution partners.

About HES™ Prototyping

Aldec offers a portfolio of HES™ prototyping boards based on the largest
Xilinx FPGAs of the Virtex UltraScale+, UltraScale and Virtex-7
families. The boards are architected to allow for easy expansion using
BPX backplane and standardized FMC and BPX daughter
card connectors.

About HES Proto-AXI™

HES Proto-AXI™ is software package aiding in FPGA based design
prototyping with HES™
boards or building hardware accelerators for High Performance
Computing (HPC) and High Frequency Trading (HFT). It contains various
board utilities, reusable sample designs, board definition files and AMBA
AXI based interconnect and host bridge modules with C/C++ and Python
API.

About Aldec

Aldec Inc., headquartered in Henderson, Nevada, is an industry leader in
Electronic Design Verification and offers a patented technology suite
including: RTL Design, RTL Simulators, Hardware-Assisted Verification,
SoC and ASIC Prototyping, Design Rule Checking, CDC Verification, IP
Cores, Requirements Lifecycle Management, DO-254 Functional Verification
and Military/Aerospace solutions. www.aldec.com

Contacts

Media Contact:
Richard Warrilow
Declaration Limited
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+44 (0)1522 789 000
richardw@aldec.com