Microtronix partners with Aldec to increase availability and portability of its High Performance Multi-port SDRAM Memory Controller IP cores.

LONDON, ON—August 12, 2008 - Microtronix® Datacom Ltd., a leading supplier of highly integrated video imaging and intellectual property (IP) development solutions, announced it has partnered with Aldec Inc., Henderson, USA, a pioneer in mixed language verification and advanced debugging tools for FPGA and ASIC devices.

The High Performance Multi-port SDRAM Memory Controller IP Cores from Microtronix is ideally suited for building low latency Avalon multi-master streaming data systems and video applications. Advanced design features enable maximum system clock rates using low speed FPGA's and standard memory devices with fewer memory components, lowering your production cost, and saving you money.

The core allows the system bus architecture to be partitioned and independently clocked to achieve maximum performance. Each port is supported with a data FIFO cache which effectively doubles memory bandwidth on sequential address or cache hits. FIFO depth can be tailored for either streaming or random access. Fast tracking your project and minimizing your engineering design effort. The partnership will ensure that Aldec's Active-HDL and Riviera simulator users can readily download and simulate a very advanced and mature MP SDRAM MC IP Cores.

"Partnering with Aldec to support their simulator tools is proving to be a successful way to increase the availability and portability of our IP cores between design environments." stated Norman McCall, CEO of Microtronix. "We are extremely pleased with the support we have received from Aldec's engineering team to ensure our IP cores are compatible with the Active-HDL and Riviera mixed language simulators operating on Windows and Linux platforms".

Availability

The Multi-port SDRAM Memory Controller IP Cores with Active-HDL and Riviera support is available today. To download an evaluation copy please email sales@microtronix.com. The Multi-port SDRAM Memory Controller IP core library is sold and supported by Microtronix and its distributors, while Active-HDL and Riviera are sold and supported by Aldec, Inc and its distributors.

About Aldec

Aldec, Inc., established in 1984 EDA tool provider, is committed to delivering high-performance, HDL-based design verification software for UNIX®, Linux® and Windows® platforms. Aldec is dedicated and responsive to serving its customers' needs. It is recognized that to be productive in today's market and to best serve customers in the future, new technologies and innovations that go beyond traditional methods of conducting business in the EDA industry must be pursued. Aldec is committed to customer service and is actively developing a company that will evolve along with its customers' designs. Additional information about Aldec is available at http://www.aldec.com.

About Microtronix

Microtronix has been in business for over 30 years. The company had its beginning as a designer of custom networking equipment targeted at the TELCO marketplace. The company has intensified their engineering skills on a line of embedded networking products and on providing a turnkey engineering design-development service from product concept through to full production. Microtronix specializes in the rapid development of FPGA-based hardware, IP cores, printed circuit board and software solutions for embedded applications.

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