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From: "Michael Patti" <mpatti@sarnoff.com>
Subject: Summit Design's "Visual HDL" vs. Escalade's "DesignBook"

John,

We have an internal debate going on between buying Summit Design's
Visual HDL vs. Escalade's DesignBook.  What we are looking for is a
productivity improvement over hand writing VHDL and Verilog code.  We
also would like a tool to help us reuse and modify legacy code.

Do you have any opinions on these tools?

    - Michael Patti
      Sarnoff Corporation                           Princeton, NJ