For 2^nd consecutive year at China’s FPGA Industry Development Forum

SHANGHAI — (BUSINESS WIRE) — September 14, 2011 — Aldec, Inc., a global industry leader in Electronic Design Verification, has once again been honored by China's electronics information leader, Chinese Electronics News (CEN), this year with the Best FPGA Design & Verification Platform Provider Award for 2011. This prestigious award, recognizing top contributors in the semiconductor industry, was presented at the third annual FPGA Industry Development Forum in Xi'an, China.

The forum honored the following companies:

The Best FPGA Design & Verification Platform Provider award recognizes the robustness of Aldec’s design and verification platform, which has all the tools necessary for efficient development of today’s FPGA devices that have a complexity level comparable with traditional ASICs. The tool suite provided by Aldec boasts efficient design entry and documentation tools, high-performance simulation, real time in-hardware emulation, and powerful debugging tools for analysis and visualization of key design objects throughout the whole development process. Comprehensive support for assertion languages, advanced code and functional coverage analysis capabilities, and strong commitment toward the support of all the latest HDL and HVL standards make Aldec’s customers truly independent from any languages or methodologies imposed by the EDA community.