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:

			Best FPGA Design & Verification Platform Provider					Aldec, Inc.
			Best FPGA Technology					Xilinx (NYSE: XLNX) and Altera (NYSE: ALTR)
			Best Performance-Price Ratio FPGA Product					Microsemi SmartFusion (NYSE: MSCC)
			Best Video Surveillance System FPGA Market Performance					Lattice (NYSE: LSCC)

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.

"Aldec’s receipt of this prestigious award demonstrates our commitment to meet the real needs of the FPGA design community by delivering highly innovative, yet easy to use, design and verification solutions," said Dave Rinehart, Aldec Vice President. “We are honored that Aldec’s proven FPGA Design and Verification solutions which support VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog and SystemC mixed simulation have for the second straight year been recognized as the ‘Best’ from the leading FPGA Industry Development Forum in China.”

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, Design Rule Checking, IP Cores, DO-254 Functional Verification and Military/Aerospace solutions. www.aldec.com

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