Eclipse Community Awards 2012

Sigasi offers a tool for editing and inspecting Hardware Design Languages (HDLs). It empowers hardware designers to deal with HDLs faster, easier and nicer.

Hardware designers develop state-of-the-art chips that perform extremely complex tasks at high speeds. Sadly they rely on antiquated tools to create those very chip designs. The most popular design entry tool today is still Emacs...

To bring hardware designers up to speed with their software colleagues, Sigasi developed an Eclipse based IDE for VHDL, one of the major hardware design languages. Because very little hardware designers have experience with Eclipse, the VHDL plugin is primarily distributed as an RCP application: a customized Eclipse variant, especially targeted for hardware designers.