HercuLeS feature matrix and pricing schemes

Date: 2013-06-29
Author: Nikolaos Kavvadias
Email:nkavvadias@ajaxcompilers.com
Revision: 0.0.2 (2013-06-29), 0.0.1 (2013-06-19)
Web site:http://www.ajaxcompilers.com
Copyright: Ajax Compilers (C) 2012, 2013

HercuLeS feature matrix

Feature Freemium Basic Full
HercuLeS GUI Y Y Y
Automatic RTL VHDL code generation Y Y Y
Automatic testbench generation Y Y Y
Portable vendor-independent VHDL code generation Y Y Y
Automatic user-defined IP integration Y Y Y
Graph-based synthesis engine Y Y Y
Generation of compiler graphs (call graphs, control flow graphs, control-data flow graphs) Y Y Y
C frontend Y Y Y
GHDL support Y Y Y
Mentor Modelsim support Y Y Y
Email support Y Y Y
Phone and Skype support Y Y Y
Live/on-site consultancy support Y Y Y
Parallel operation scheduling   Y Y
Automatic block RAM inference   Y Y
Constant multiplication optimization   Y Y
Constant division optimization   Y Y
VHDL-2008 floating-point arithmetic support   Y Y
C verification backend   Y Y
Additional complete examples   Y Y
Xilinx Isim support   Y Y
VHDL-2008 fixed-point arithmetic support     Y
Register optimization     Y
Operation scheduling improvements     Y
Array flattening optimizations     Y
C source code optimizer     Y
Active-HDL support     Y

Pricing

Cost Freemium Basic Full
Licensing (one-off fee) FREE 1995.00 EUR 3995.00 EUR
Yearly maintenance FREE 995.00 EUR 1995.00 EUR
Email consultancy fee FREE FREE FREE
Phone consultancy fee (per hour) 95.00 EUR 75.00 EUR 49.00 EUR
On-site consultancy fee (daily; food, accomodation, travel not included) 495.00 EUR 395.00 EUR 295.00 EUR