HENDERSON, Nev. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — April 18, 2012 — As an X-Fest 2012 global sponsor, Aldec will visit over 22 cities worldwide to demonstrate its industry-leading functional verification platform which, combined with Xilinx ISE™, enables both software and hardware designers to address core verification requirements associated with the most recent Xilinx devices on the market such as Artix-7, Kintex-7, and Virtex-7.

As a member of their Alliance Program, Aldec works together with Xilinx to enable tools for Design Entry, HDL Simulation, Design Rule Checking, and HW Assisted Verification - providing comprehensive hardware design and verification platform for the most advanced devices in the Xilinx portfolio. X-Fest attendees will learn how Aldec-based flows address the Hardware Architecture requirements of Zynq EPP, a new class of product which combines an industry-standard ARM® dual-core Cortex™-A9 MPCore™ processing system with Xilinx 28nm programmable logic.

X-Fest 2012, a free technical training event co-hosted by Avnet and Xilinx, takes place throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Japan. Register at http://avnet.me/xfest.