[comp.lang.vhdl] VHDL products, monthly posting

dettmer@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Thomas Dettmer) (04/29/91)

This is a monthly posting to comp.lang.vhdl
Please send additional information directly to the editor:
dettmer@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Thomas Dettmer)
Last edited: February 20, 1991 (Thanks for all corrections)

Corrections and suggestions are appreciated.

This product list is still incomplete - please help to update it.
This list is without any guarantee to be complete or correct. It is included
to enable contacts to vendors. It does not contain version, quality or price
information.  (Please accept, that actually this information changes to fast
-to much work to keep such information up to date, but if there is a
volunteer willing to take this part...:-). Possibly some more information
will be added later. (state information unknown means not to be sure whether
a product is on the market or not)

********************* Special products and PD stuff ***********************
VHDL Validation Suite                 Oct 15th, 1990
           VHDL VALIDATION SUITE RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT
  The  VHDL  Validation Suite, which was developed at Va. Tech
  with  funding  provided  by  CAD  Language   Systems   Inc.,
  Daisy/Cadnetix,   Genrad,  MCC,  Silicon  Compiler  Systems,
  Vantage Analysis, and Zycad is now ready for public release.
  The suite contains 2295 tests which cover 100% of  the  1865
  test  points defined for the VHDL Language Reference Manual.
  The suite is free to universities.   Companies  and  govern-
  mental  agencies  are required to pay a fee of $2000 for the
  suite. The funds from these fees will be  deposited  in  the
  VHDL  Suite  Foundation account and will be used to maintain
  and improve the suite.
  The suite is written in: 1) TAR format on either VAX  TK  50
  or  Sun/Appollo  cartridges,  or 2) DEC VMS BACKUP format on
  TK50 cartridges.  To obtain a copy of the suite send :1) ei-
  ther a TK 50 (specify whether you want TAR or BACKUP format)
  or Sun/Appollo cartridge and 2) a check  (not  required  for
  universities) for $2000, made out to VHDL Suite, to:
         Professor J. R. Armstrong
         Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering
         Virginia Tech
         Blacksburg, VA. 24061
  If you have questions, contact Dr. Armstrong at 703-231-4723
  (phone),   703-231-3362   (FAX)   or   by   email   sent  to
  JRA@VTVM1.BITNET.

Proposed IEEE VHDL Standard Logic System: available via anonymous ftp
from bears.ucsb.edu The directory is pub/VHDL, logic_system.tar.Z

I don't know if the following tools are PD or not, but they are accessible
by anonymous FTP: 
    mcnc: a vhdl parser written in prolog
(anonymous FTP on mcnc.org, a report is also available)
    uceng: :there is a grammar suited for lex, but no actions
associated.  There is also a validation suite.
(anonymous FTP on uceng.uc.edu)

******************* Companies and their products ************************
Ascent Technology, Inc.
2075 North Capitol Avenue, Suite C
San Jose, CA 95132
phone:  (408) 945-6635, fax:    (408) 946-0922
contact: Rindert Schutten
 MetaView : basic design environment to be customized
 VHDL/DA :  Design Assistant (VHDL/DA) : MetaView based environment
           for design management, structure editing, browsing, state
           machine editing, architecture editing source code 
           transformation ( for synthesis )
 state : Release 1 announced for April 91

CAD Language Systems, Inc.
USA
15245 Shady Grove Road, Suite 310
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone: (301) 963-5200
ax:   (301)  963-1511
Europe:
Rosedale House
Rosedale Road
Richmond, Surrey TW9 2SZ, UK
Phone: +44 81 332 0192, FAX: +44 81 948 8263
 VTIP		virtual tool integration platform state available
 RVCG		simulation code generator

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
Systems Division
Two Lowell Research Ctr. Dr.
Lowell, MA 01852-4995
FAX 508-441-1109
OR
555 River Oaks Pkwy.
San Jose, Calif. 95134
Eileen Elam (Public relations representative)
(408) 943-1234
Germany:
Mr. Grothe
phone: 02236 68051
 Vdoc  Verilog to VHDL translator
 VHDL-XL simulator
    
Computer General Electronic Design Ltd.
  (was Praxis Electronic Design)
  Contact: Jeremy Goulding, Sales Manager
  Computer General Electronic Design Ltd
  The New Church
  Henry Street
  Bath
  BA1 1JR
  U.K.
  phone:+44 225 482744  Fax:+44 225 442751
  e-mail:jwg@cged.co.uk
    ELLA -> VHDL translator
    VHDL synthesis products


Dazix
700E Middlefield Road.
Mountain View, Calif. 94030

I-logix
22 Third Av.
Burlington, MA 01803
Tel. 617 272-8090
Fax. 617 272-8035
 Express VHDL: "express and analyze behavioral models graphically"

Intermetrics 
733 Concord Ave.
Cambridge, MA 02 138
OR
Suite 415
4733 Bethesda Ave.
Bethesda, MD 20814
phone: (617)661-1840  FAX: (617) 868-2843
email: cms@inmet.inmet.com (C. M. Schmitz)
 VHDL Design Environment	simulation system SUN/DEC
 University Program

ITD 
  Institute for Technology Development
  Advanced MicroElectronics Division
  1 Research Blvd. Suite 205
  Starkville, Ms. 39759
  contact: Scott Calhoun (VHDL modeling group)
  phone: (601)-325-8356, email: jscott@itd.msstate.edu
  associated with Mississippi State in Starkville, Miss.
  package of basic gates, conforms to the preliminary standards under
  consideration by the EIA and the modeling standards committee of the IEEE
  DASS. 
  not PD, but available for a copying charge

Logic Automation
Farley Hall
London Road
Bracknell, Berks RG12 5EU, UNITED KINGDOM
phone: +44 344 863230, FAX +44 344 863990
 library of models, 

MCC
3500 West Balcones Center Dr.
Austin, Texas 78759
USA
Phone: +1 (512) 338 3794
 simulator

Model Technology Inc.
15455 N. W. Greenbrier Parkway, Suite 210
Beaverton, OR 97006 USA
Phone: +1 (503) 690-6838, FAX: +1 (503) 690-2093,
BBS: +1 (503) 690-0635
 V-System/PC			PC based simulator state: available
    				windows based version announced for 12'90

Mentor Graphics
8500 S.W. Creekside Pl
Beaverton, OR 97005-7191
contact: John Kregel
phone: 503-626-1327, FAX 503-626-1268
2045 Hamilton Ave
San Jose, CA 95125-6199
Phone: 408-371-2900, FAX 408-559-4916
Germany:
Duesseldorf,
Herr Feek
phone: 0211/591011
 VHDL Vision/Mentor System 1076 	simulation, synthesis, state unknown


Pittsburgh University of [PD/SW?]
Prof. Steven Levitan, 
Dept. of Electrical Engineering
348 Benedum Engineering Hall
Univ. of Pitsburgh, 15261
email: vhdl@ee.pitt.edu
see anonymous ftp: ee.pitt.edu (130.49.15.1) in pub/vhdl-info for files
README, letter.txt, license.PS, assurance.PS ...
not public domain, but 150$ 
 analyzer/simulator and sources 

Silvar Lisco

Silc Technologies Inc.

Swedish Institute of Microelectronics
VHDL CAD tools
Box 1084
S-164 21 Kista -SWEDEN-
contact: Mart Altmae
phone: +46 8-752 1000 FAX: +46 8-750 8056
email: vhdl@inmic.se, ftp: ftp.inmic.se (130.237.214.90)
 MINT		multi-level interactive simulation system

Synopsys Inc./ZyCad (attention new adress: they moved)
USA
Synopsys, Inc.
700 East Middlefield Road
Mountain View, California 94043-4033  U.S.A.
Phone: (415)962-5000
FAX:   (415)965-8637
Germany (moved)
Synopsys, GmbH
Stefan George Ring 2
D-8000 Muenchen 81   Germany
Phone: 89/9301031
FAX:   89/932051
Zycad:
1380 Willow Road
Menlo Park, CA 94025
Products:
 Design Compiler - Constraint-Driven Logic Optimization (CMOS & GaAs)
 VHDL Compiler - VHDL Logic Synthesis
 HDL Compiler - Verilog HDL Synthesis
 ECL Compiler - Emitter-Coupled Logic Synthesis and Optimization
 Test Compiler - Test Synthesis (Auto. Test insertion + ATPG)
 VHDL System Simulator - 100% language compatible VHDL behavioral simulation

Valid
2820 Orchard Pkwy.
San Jose, Calif. 95134
Germany:
Muenchen,
phone: 089/710050
 compiler, simulator
 Now sells Intermetrics tools

Vantage Analysis Systems, Inc
USA:
42808 Christy Street, Suite 200
Fremont, CA 94538
phone: (415) 659-0901 fax: (415) 659-0129
contact: John Willey
Europe:
Graham Shenton Associates
Windmill Hill
Whitehill Way, Swindon
Wiltshire SN5 9YZ
UNITED KINGDOM
phone: 011-44-793-875327
fax: 011-44-793-875328
Japan:
Okura & Co, Ltd
3-6 Ginza, 2 chome
Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104
JAPAN
phone: 011-81-3-566-6000
fax: 011-81-3-563-5447
 Vantage Spreadsheet, Debug 1076/VHDL simulator, analyzer, debugger
 production quality products available since early 1988
    
Viewlogic
313 Boston Post Rd. West
Marlboro, MA 01752
phone: 508/480-0881, FAX: 508/480-0882, TELEX 174242
 ViewSim/SD: subset simulator (next release full VHDL-1076)
 VHDL-Designer: synthesis to gate level
 ViewGen: schematic drawing synthesis
 Export.1076: Automatic VHDL model generation (from which input?)

Vista Technologies, Inc.
USA:
 1100 Woodfield Road, Suite 108
 Schaumburg, IL 60173-5121
 phone:  (708) 706-9300, fax:    (708) 706-9317
 contact: David Jakopac
 email: dave@vistatech.com
Japan:
 Marubeni Hytech Corp.
 Marubeni Hytech Bldg.
 20-22, Koishikawa 4-Chome
 Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112
 JAPAN
 phone:  81-3-3817-4871, fax:    81-3-3817-4880
 contact: Ken Sakamaki
The VHDL Developer:  VHDL model development environment.  Includes
  Language Assistant for design entry and checking,
  Source Code Library Manager for design reuse,
  over 5000 lines of VHDL examples, and EDIF to VHDL
  translator.
The VHDL Developer Plus:  Same as The VHDL Developer plus Model Creator
  for creating VHDL source from function- and state-
  machine-tables. Can generate code campatible for
  synthesis.


ZyCad s. Synopsis



dettmer@jupiter.ls1.informatik.uni-dortmund.de
phone: +49-231 755 6323, FAX: +49-231 755 6555
Thomas Dettmer, Dortmund University, Computer Science I
Post Box 50 05 00, W-4600 Dortmund 50, Germany