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Sigasi announces Free Educational Licenses

Posted Wed, 2010-08-25 13:59 by pfaes

Next week, at the Field Programmable Logic (FPL) conference in Milan, Sigasi will officially start its academic program. This means that students and professors are free to use Sigasi HDT for teaching and learning VHDL design.

In the last half year We have granted free student licenses for our VHDL development environment. However, We had not announced this widely until now. Still, students and professors from over fifty universities, schools and colleges in over twenty countries are currently using a Sigasi HDT educational license.

Today, we want to reach out to the entire academic community. Teachers can use Sigasi HDT in their classrooms. Students can run Sigasi HDT on their own laptops for completing assignments. Signing up for an educational license is easy. Just enter your name and your college e-mail address at http://www.sigasi.com/start. Don't forget to indicate whether you are a student or a teacher.

If you are using Sigasi software in your college, it would be great if you can tell us about your experience. If you are attending FPL, please do come and visit the Sigasi booth!

Enjoy!

-- Philippe

Sigasi at FPL 2010

Posted Thu, 2010-08-05 20:43 by pfaes

Do you remember when you were playing with your Lego? Do you remember you wanted to grow up to invent cool stuff? Did you imagine it would be as much fun as building a robot with Lego bricks? I did.

Today, when you are coding VHDL, do you get that same happy feeling inside? Most people don't. That's because stacking bricks is intuitive and coding VHDL is not. There's no good reason, though. With the right tools, VHDL can be as intuitive as productive and as much fun as stacking bricks.

If you're visiting FPL in Milan this year, come talk to me and I'll show you how. You'll get a set of Lego bricks just for showing up.

-- Philippe

Sigasi announces first funding round

Posted Thu, 2010-07-29 08:09 by pfaes

Ghent, Belgium - July 29, 2010 - Sigasi, a Ghent-based high tech EDA start-up, announced that it has closed its first round of funding. The investors in this round are Baekeland Fund II, the venture seed fund of Ghent University, business angels, and the team.

Sigasi was founded in January of 2008 by two PhD's from Ghent University. The company was
initially financed by seed capital provided by the founders, by subsidies from the Flemish
government via the Agency for Innovation through Science and Technology (IWT), and by a
mezzanine loan from Flemish Innovation Fund (Vinnof).

Download the pdf with the full press release.

Summertime: trial period doubled

Posted Fri, 2010-07-09 08:45 by pfaes

It's summertime and things in this part of the world are slowing down. This is an excellent time to try out some new tooling.

We are taking a closer look at Git, Scala and some other cool stuff.

At the same time, we have extended our trial period from 2 weeks to 4 weeks. Existing users who´s license has expired can request a new evaluation license. If you are new to Sigasi, you can subscribe for a free trial and take an entire month to see how Sigasi HDT works on your VHDL project. Give it a shot and let us know what you think.

-- Philippe

Sigasi becomes an Eclipse Solutions Member

Posted Wed, 2010-06-30 09:20 by pfaes

Sigasi has been building on Eclipse since its earliest days. Today we have taken an extra step as we have been accepted as an Eclipse Solutions Member.

We have long been convinced that a solid framework like Eclipse helps everybody. The application developer can reuse a big portion of the Eclipse framework (standing on the shoulders of giants, so to speak). The end user has a single familiar user interface and can benefit from over a thousand Eclipse-based solutions.

As fresh Eclipse Members, we are proudly listed along some very interesting companies. We will make every effort to be worthy of this.

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