Star-Hspice with IBIS support is available for immediate shipment. The Actel Desktop is a three-vendor suite of logic design tools from Synplicity, Veribest, and Actel, with technical support provided by Actel. Actel Desktop Pro is a complete tool suite for power users designing high gate count devices. Actel Desktop Open features an open synthesis environment for customers who already have their own synthesis tools. Desktop Pro offers design solutions with no maximum size limitation for all supported Actel devices.
Users are free to select the method that best suits their needs.
Designview also provides powerful data and multi-design configuration management that simplifies complex design management. Verification includes connectivity, HDL syntax, assignment and state register consistency, state, clock, reset, guard values, and bus reference checks. The Veribest State Diagram Editor added to these new Desktop versions also features automatic HDL generation of state diagrams allowing users to design as they work and not worry about HDL style issues for downstream synthesis tools. Veribest's State Diagram Editor also features a graphical animation capability that allows users to interactively control the Veribest VHDL Simulator through the State Diagram Editor. They can also view the simulation of the state machine in the editor allowing true source level debugging.