Company Overview

Actis Design, LLC is a supplier of EDA software  solutions used to enable the successful deployment of a  SystemC-based design methodology.   Actis was formed in November, 2001 as a spin-off of the software product and consulting services businesses of Willamette HDL, Inc.

Products

AccurateC^(tm)  Rule Checker and Rule Generator are rule checking products for the SystemC^(tm)   language. AccurateC  Rule Checker was introduced in June, 2001 as the industry's first semantic rule checker for SystemC .  AccurateC  Rule Generator was introduced on January, 2003 and is a companion product to the Rule Checker.  The Rule Generator allows users to write User-defined Rules in C++ using API functions to access AccurateC internal design data.

Ten Minute Tutor^(tm)  (TMT) is a Computer Based Training program that teaches the Verilog and VHDL languages.  Introduced in 1996, TMT is based on years of classroom training experience.

Consulting Services

Actis Design provides a wide range of consulting services to high technology product suppliers and consumers. Past projects include web based training development for EDA tools, custom software tool development, HDL models and testbench development. Actis also provides consultation in designing web-based e-Commerce solutions for small and medium sized companies.

Management

Joan Bartlett is the founder and President of Actis. She previously was Vice President and co-founder of Willamette HDL, Inc. While at Willamette, Joan led the product development of AccurateC  and Ten Minute Tutor  in addition to managing consulting services.  Prior to forming her own companies, Joan held engineering and engineering management positions at Tektronix, Inc., Pyramid Technology and Logic Automation (now a part of Synopsys, Inc.)