Company News Releases

November 2011

• Ashton Electronic Systems Inc. joins the Xilinx Alliance Program

  Kanata, ON - Nov 10, 2011, Ashton Electronic Systems, a leading provider of hardware, software and system design services, is proud to announce its membership in the Xilinx Alliance program. This program is designed to provide Xilinx customers with total solutions which combine Xilinx programmable logic with key technologies from program members, including design services, IP cores, EDA, DSP and embedded development tools, board-level products, integrated circuits and electronic components.

  "We’re thrilled to partner with Xilinx in their Alliance Program" said Peter Cottreau, President of Ashton Electronic Systems. "In the short run, acceptance into the program confirms our strategic vision to align with the leading vendors in this industry. Over the longer term, it will better enable our team to deliver innovative technology solutions to our customers."

  Membership in the Alliance Program provides Ashton Systems early access to a wider variety of Xilinx devices; as well as, development tools, training and technical support. These additional resources will help to simplify and shorten the development cycle for new products and will provide our customers with more robust, powerful and cost-effective solutions.

  "We are pleased to welcome Ashton Systems as a new Xilinx Alliance Program member" said David Vornholt, Senior Manager, Partner Ecosystems and Alliances. "Their addition underscores our commitment to providing our customers access to a worldwide network of professional design houses. The team at Ashton will give our customers a considerable competitive advantage through accelerated time-to-market for their products."

  About Ashton Electronic Systems
  Founded in 2006, Ashton Electronic Systems provides electronic design services to customers across North America – ranging from small SME’s to Fortune 100 companies. Our team helps customers with all aspects of product development with a focus on hardware design, board layout, FPGA and software development. Our offices are located in Ottawa Canada. For more information, please visit www.ashton-systems.com.

  Information related to the Xilinx Alliance Program can be found at www.xilinx.com/alliance/index.htm.

  Contact Information: Al Caughey, Marketing & Sales at Ashton Electronic Systems
  (e) acaughey@ashton-systems.com
  (p) 613/287-1551 * 116

August 2011

• Ashton provides free Web-Enabled design tools for FPGAs and ASICs.

  These 5 tools are RBUILD, MVER, MCALL, FLAV and ERPP.

  RBUILD creates the software registers required for a chip, outputting all the necessary files from verilog, to xml Word documentation files, to 'C' files containing the definitions for creating software drivers.

  MVER is a pre-processor that extends the Verilog language, adding direct supports for Flops, Signals, and mixed always blocks, allowing combinational and sequential logic to be combined in one place.

  MCALL builds a module or a testbench to call lower level modules simply by scanning the lower level modules. It handles all the port variable declarations, and connectivity, and provides extensive comments indicating the source and destination of all connection wires.

  FLAV is a formatting tool for Verilog or M-verilog code, suppporting many styles of indenting and code clarification.

  ERPP is a pre-processor that allows designers to mix PERL code with Verilog or VHDL RTL. It is ideal for making parameterized, reconfigurable code, using the full power of PERL.

  No installation of these tools is required. The web interface allows the input file to be uploaded easily, the tool runs on the Ashton server and seconds later the results are available for download.

  Documentation and examples are provided. Online help is provided.

  In addition, a number of IP Block Generators are also provided, covering CRCs, Scramblers, and LFSR counters.

  Click here for more infomation, or to enroll as a tool member, letting you run the tools.

April 2011

• Ashton Systems increases focus on FPGA Design and IP development.

  Peter Cottreau is happy to welcome Eric Dormer who joins the firm as a senior hardware design engineer. Eric has extensive experience in ASIC and FPGA design, with a focus on Intellectual Property development and licensing.

  Eric has a Paralegal diploma with a focus on Intellectual Property Law from Herzing College. He also has an MBA from the University of Ottawa, and Electrical Engineering Degree with an option in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo. Previously in his career, Eric was Director of the Altera Ottawa Technology Center in the Intellectual Property Business Unit. Before that, Eric was founder and manager of DesignPRO Inc., an engineering design services firm which created FPGA and ASIC designs and intellectual property serving the telecommunications segment, with customers worldwide. Eric started his career with BNR (Nortel) in 1987.

  In addition to client focused engineering design work, Eric will continue to refine and enhance the Ashton development process, and upgrade the tool flow. A priority will be developing a framework of tools to enhance productivity when doing digitial chip design.

Nov. 2009

• Ashton Electronic Systems Inc. moved into their new location on Nov 6th, 2009.

  The new office is located at:
  84 Hines Road, Suite 130, Kanata, K2K3G3

  For a map and other contact information, click here .