News | June 10, 1998

Intrinsix Acquires The VHDL Technology Group

Intrinsix Corp., an ASIC and electronic design automation (EDA) design services company, announced that it has acquired The VHDL Technology Group (Bethlehem, Pa.), a small design services company providing modeling and related consulting services and complementary products for the VHDL market.

The acquisition benefits the growing number of users moving into hardware description language (HDL)-based ASIC and FPGA design and verification. It allows Intrinsix to offer new VHDL design services along with the company's existing VHDL and Verilog services. Under the terms of the agreement, the VHDL Technology Group will be integrated into the day to day operations of Intrinsix. William Billowitch, founder and CEO and president of The VHDL Technology Group, takes on the new position as director of VHDL Design Services and continues to have P&L responsibility for VHDL Technology Group products, like the popular HDL editor, Esprimo -- (formerly called Sledgehammer-6).

Intrinsix Corp. is an independent ASIC and Integrated System Design consulting services company with local design centers in 12 cities throughout the United States. Intrinsix provides comprehensive ASIC and FPGA design, simulation, synthesis, verification and test services to leading electronics companies utilizing industry standard tools from companies such as Synopsys, Mentor Graphics, and Cadence, among others.

The VHDL Technology Group specializes in the development of model creation products, and offers Esprimo, a VHDL, VERILOG, C, C++, JAVA source code editor for Windows and Solaris. The company is involved with the development of widely adopted industry standards such as IEEE 1164 and VITAL.