Top-down approach simplifies multilayer SoC design

Beach Solutions has updated Easi-Studio, a part of its Easi-Tools family that provides designers with automated solutions for packaging and deploying IP in a repeatable and reliable manner.

Beach Solutions has updated Easi-Studio, a part of its Easi-Tools family that provides designers with automated solutions for packaging and deploying IP in a repeatable and reliable manner.

In addition to locating captured IP blocks into a system using a bottom-up methodology, Easi-Studio 3.0 now also provides the ability to capture multilayer systems using a top-down approach to systems building.

Both methods have been designed to integrate smoothly into existing SoC development processes and enhance the associated dataflow management.

Design engineers can now define complete system architectures that include multiple buses, transaction ports and IP block interconnections.

Before any generation takes place, all captured data is checked against inbuilt and user-defined rules.

Once checked, the data can be used as a reliable source for the automatic generation of design files for use by the various members of a development team - a physical layer API for the software developers, IP block HDL for hardware developers and documentation for all.

Using Easi-Studio, these views are easily maintainable throughout the development process and provide the ability for the hardware, software and documentation aspects of a development project to be undertaken concurrently.

According to Beach Solutions, the adoption of Easi-Studio will continue to help control development costs at the same time as improving design quality and speed.

By simply capturing the port information for an IP block using the Easi-Studio GUI, a design engineer can easily locate it in a multilayer system.

The generator technology then provides the automatic creation of design files for the entire system.

The scope not only spans to IP block connections but also the bus interface logic, system address decoders and documentation.

"The launch of Easi-Studio 3.0 significantly extends our ability to positively impact SoC and reconfigurable platform development processes", said Terry McCloskey, CEO of Beach Solutions.

"Providing the ability to capture systems fabric and integrate parameterisable IP blocks to build SoCs, Easi-Studio 3.0 adds a new dimension to how designers can structure and develop systems with re-usable IP".

As with previous versions of the tool suite, Easi-Studio requires no new language support, is simple to use, and fits neatly into existing design flows.

Easi-Tools automate many of the detailed and otherwise error-prone manual design tasks allowing design engineers to concentrate on value added engineering and bringing products to market faster.

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