At Fidus we believe that to build leading-edge products you need state-of-the-art tools. Our investment in a comprehensive suite of advanced development tools and a well-equipped, modern test laboratory saves our clients significant capital expenditure and accelerates ramp up with clients’ tool sets. Fidus maintains current licences for many of its advanced development tools and the team has considerable design experience with a larger spectrum of industry-leading tools We are experts in the following tools:

Hardware Development and PCB Layout Tools
Altium Designer
Altium P-CAD
Altium Protel
Cadence Allegro PCB Editor
Cadence Allegro PCB SI
Cadence OrCAD Layout
Cadence Allegro PCB Router
Cadence PCB Design CIS (Capture CIS)
Cadence Design HDL (Concept HDL)
Downstream Technologies CAM 350
Mentor Graphics BoardStation
Mentor Graphics DXDatabook
Mentor Graphics DX Designer
Mentor Graphics Expedition
Mentor Graphics PADS
Mentor Graphics Blaze and Fire Router
Mentor Graphics ViewLogic/View Draw
PCB Matrix LP Wizard
Polar Valor
Zuken Cadstar

FPGA Development Tools
Altera Quartus
Cadence NC-Sim (VHDL, Verilog)
Lattice ispLEVER
Mentor Graphics Modelsim SE
Mentor Graphics FPGA Express
Synopsys Synplify Pro (VHDL, Verilog)
Xilinx AccelDSP
Xilinx ISE
Xilinx PlanAhead
Xilinx ChipScope Pro
Xilinx System Generator for Simulink

DSP Development Tools
MathWorks MATLAB
MathWorks Simulink
Xilinx AccelDSP
Xilinx System Generator for Simulink
TI Code Composer

Mechanical Design Tools
Autodesk AutoCAD
Autodesk Inventor

Signal Integrity & EMC Simulation Tools
Agilent ADS
Ansys HFSS
Ansys Links
Ansys Designer
Cadence Allegro PCB SI (SPECCTRAQuest)
Cadence PSPICE
Cadence Spectre
Mentor Graphics HyperLynx
Synopsys HSPICE

Firmware and Software Development Tools
CVS
SVN
IBM Rational Clearcase
Freescale CodeWarrior
GNU C/C++
IAR Embedded Workbench
KEIL uVision
LabVIEW
Microsoft Visual C++
Microsoft Visual Basic
Microsoft Visual Studio