EuroEDA Limited, a value-added-reseller of low-cost design automation tools, today announced the addition of PeakVHDL & PeakFPGA, from Accolade Design Automation to their portfolio of products.

EuroEDA markets & distributes a comprehensive range of EDA tools including schematic capture, circuit simulation, PCB layout, graphical entry and PLD/FPGA design, from their offices in Kettering, Northants. Founded by former Direct Insight Sales Director, Duncan Crowther, EuroEDA offers a range of highly complementary solutions that are sold through a combination of direct mail, telesales, internet marketing & field sales.

Accolade Design Automation Inc. of Kirkland, WA, was founded in 1994 by leading HDL industry expert David Pellerin and their Peak tools are sold worldwide, both directly and through a network of international distributors. Accolade provides vendor independent solutions for VHDL based FPGA design, and their products now set the standard for affordable design automation in this field.

PeakVHDL is a high performance VHDL simulation tool that has many high-end features normally only associated with products that are significantly more expensive. Aimed at FPGA users, PeakVHDL includes advanced features such as interactive source level debug, graphical waveform viewing, smart VHDL editing & sophisticated design management as part of the standard package. IEEE standards 1076 (1987), 1076 (1993) & 1164 are all fully supported, as are Synopsys extensions and synthesis libraries. Optional VITAL timing libraries are also offered, permitting accurate post place-&-route simulation using actual timing data from the target FPGA.

PeakFPGA completes the tool-set providing highly optimized synthesis for all major FPGA vendors including Actel, AMD, Altera, Lattice, Lucent, Motorola, Quicklogic & Xilinx. PeakFPGA features tight integration with PeakVHDL, and provides support for the auto-generation of high-level FPGA macrocells (module inference). PeakVHDL & PeakFPGA are native 32-bit Windows 95/NT applications, and both single and multi-user licenses are available. EuroEDA’s appointment coincides with new releases of PeakVHDL & PeakFPGA that offer dramatically improved simulation performance, and improved synthesis results for the latest FPGA devices.

Commenting on the appointment, EuroEDA Director, Duncan Crowther said:

"We are delighted to be offering Accolade’s range of VHDL tools. Our appointment concludes a long search for a suitable product with first class performance and device support, at a price that makes the technology available to virtually any user. We are experiencing a rapidly growing interest from our customers in VHDL design, particularly from FPGA users who are still designing using traditional schematic entry. Many of these users are now ready to move up to an affordable HDL-based, vendor independent solution. We feel that the Peak products are exceptionally well placed to meet this growing demand and are an excellent fit for our sales model."