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Aldec

Aldec, Inc. is a privately owned electronic design automation company based in Henderson, Nevada, providing software and hardware used in creation and verification of digital designs targeting FPGA and ASIC technologies. As a member of Accellera and IEEE Standards Association, Aldec actively participates in the process of developing new standards and updating existing standards (e.g. VHDL, SystemVerilog). Aldec provides a hardware description language (HDL) simulation engine for other EDA tools such as Altium Designer and bundles special version of its tools with FPGA vendors software such as Lattice.

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Article summary

Aldec, Inc. is a privately owned electronic design automation company based in Henderson, Nevada, providing software and hardware used in creation and verification of digital designs targeting FPGA and ASIC technologies. As a member of Accellera and IEEE Standards Association, Aldec actively participates in the process of developing new standards and updating existing standards (e.g. VHDL, SystemVerilog). Aldec provides a hardware description language (HDL) simulation engine for other EDA tools such as Altium Designer and bundles special version of its tools with FPGA vendors software such as Lattice.

Key claims

  1. release date: 2007 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  2. release date: 1076 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  3. release date: 2016 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  4. release date: 1076 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the release date is "2007". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. The record states that the release date is "1076". What evidence would count against this claim?
  4. The record states that the release date is "2016". What evidence would count against this claim?
  5. The record states that the release date is "1076". What evidence would count against this claim?
  6. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  7. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1375804130

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.