HDL Designer Series 2021.1

HDL Designer Series is a commercial EDA environment for planning, creating, and maintaining digital hardware designs in VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog. It blends graphical design capture with powerful code-centric workflows to help teams architect complex FPGA and ASIC systems, enforce coding standards, and keep documentation synchronized with the source. The tool emphasizes productivity, design consistency, and traceability across the entire RTL development flow.

Key capabilities:

• Graphical design capture: block diagrams, state machines, and flowcharts with automatic HDL generation
• Code-aware editing: syntax highlighting, templates, style enforcement, and refactoring for VHDL/Verilog/SystemVerilog
• Round-trip design: cross-probing and synchronization between diagrams, hierarchy views, and HDL code
• Project and hierarchy management: design partitioning, IP reuse, and library management for large systems
• Quality checks: design rule checks, linting, and configurable coding guidelines
• Integration: connects with popular simulators, synthesis tools, and version control systems
• Documentation: automated schematic, interface, and hierarchy documentation to support reviews and certification workflows
• Collaboration: features that support team-based development and consistent project structures

Typical users include FPGA/ASIC engineers, system architects, and teams seeking a disciplined, graphical-plus-code methodology for RTL design on Windows and Linux platforms.

HDL Designer Series is developed by Mentor Graphics Corporation. The most popular versions of this product among our users are: 2005.2, 2007.1, 2015.1 beta, 2016.1, 2021.1 and unknown. The name of the program executable file is hdldesigner.exe. Works with fc, sb, bd, tt, ttz, amz, fcz and sdz file types.