Researching and developing new technologies for improving the electronic product development process, with a particular focus on higher-level, often hardware description language (HDL) based approaches.

Fund research by winning competitive research grants, primarily through the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Partner with leading universities and other corporations for advanced research and development. Spin off promising technologies to commercial companies for productization, marketing, and sales (OEM licensing). Also provide a direct sales and distribution channel for selected products.

Founded in 1990 by Jake Karrfalt. Privately funded. Secured early financing through SBIR contract wins (nine Phase I, seven Phase II). Received industry awards:

• SBA Tibbetts Award for Outstanding Entrepreneurship, 1996
• NASA Excellence in Engineering Award, Northeast Region, 1997

Jake Karrfalt, President and CEO
Alex Zamfirescu, CTO
Robert MacDonald, CFO
Doug Reid, Controller

• Pioneered register-transfer level (RTL) design tools in the early 1990s.
• Pre-timing closure boundary scan insertion program VBIT®, distributed by Mentor Graphics as BSDArchitect™.
  
• v2v™ HDL Translators convert designs between VHDL and Verilog.
• Introduced XML to electronic design automation (EDA) industry in 1999.
• Introduced automatic techniques for high-reliability and radiation-hardened design in 2000.
• Supported IEEE Std 1603™ Advanced Library Format (ALF) development.
  
• Released free ALF Parser in 2001.
  
• ALF Compiler, Access Routines and Characterization Tool released in 2002.
• Power-optimizating Behavioral Level Synthesis in 2004.
• Patented technique for automatic soft error correction in 2005 (available for licensing).
  

Translation of electronic designs to and from VHDL and Verilog.

Agere, ARC Cores, ATI, Ericsson, Fujitsu, Guidant, IBM, Intel, LSI, National, Tality, TI, Skyworks

• Universities: Princeton University; Polytechnic University, Brooklyn;
  Northeastern University
• US Federal: MDA, Army, Air Force, DARPA, NASA, NIST, NSF, SBA
• Semiconductor Manufacturers: NEC
• Comprehensive distributor network
• EDA: Cadence, Magma, Fintronic, Prover, Artisan/ARM

Main office is located north of Boston in southern New Hampshire:
22 Haverhill Rd., PO Box 128, Windham NH 03087
Tel: (603)437-2234, Fax: (603)437-2722, information request, www.ascinc.com