University Program

Bluespec's University Program is designed to ensure easy access to the industry's leading high-level design and modeling toolsets.  We are committed to helping our customers by giving future engineers Bluespec tools for their research and studies and empowering educators with our tools for their research and coursework.  Bluespec seeks to promote a variety of academic activities with this program:

• Engineering coursework in electrical engineering, computer engineering and computer science, for example.  Bluespec has been used in a variety of coursework, including for the teaching of hardware design, computer architecture, architectural exploration and software design
• Methodology and tool research based on or about atomic transactions
• Design and architecture research involving design-space exploration, low-power implementation, hardware-software tradeoffs, hardware acceleration, and more
• Research or coursework involving embedded software development and/or system-on-chip architecture and implementation
• Hardware implementation research or studies that would alternatively have to be done using SystemVerilog, Verilog or VHDL

Subject to our review and approval, the Program provides free access to Bluespec's SystemVerilog tools for non-commercial use within any accredited, degree-granting academic institutions and upon execution of the license order schedule and software license agreements.  Both documents can be downloaded from these links:

1.  License Order Schedule

2.  Software License

Once executed, the documents can be faxed to Bluespec at +1-781-684-1199.