Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: Hier Design | Subject: PlanAhead
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 4 June 2004
Floorplanner gains Java-based visualisation
Hier Design is to bundle Concept Engineering's NlviewJA Widget, a Java-based visual debugging software engine, into its PlanAhead hierarchical floorplanning and analysis software
Concept Engineering and Hier Design have signed a worldwide OEM license agreement to bundle Concept Engineering's NlviewJA Widget, a Java-based visual debugging software engine, into Hier Design's PlanAhead hierarchical floorplanning and analysis software. Concept's Nlview engine is the industry-standard schematic generation, viewing, and debugging software for electronic design automation (EDA) tool developers who develop graphical user interfaces for EDA tools.
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With the incorporation of the NlviewJA Widget into PlanAhead, customers designing SoCs and high-complexity FPGAs gain access to an easy-to-use graphical user interface.
It intuitively displays components, connectivity, and critical paths, and lets designers quickly visualise and fix problems in their designs.
"We decided to OEM Concept Engineering's technology into our products because it's the most advanced visualisation technology available", said Dino Caporossi, Vice President of Marketing at Hier Design.
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"We also were able to save development costs, bringing PlanAhead to market much faster than if we had developed our own schematic viewing technology".
"Our ongoing investment in advanced visualisation technology has resulted in more and more customers relying on us for their GUI, and we're pleased to have met Hier Design's advanced technical specification for their new PlanAhead product", said Gerhard Angst, CEO of Concept Engineering.
"The design of complex FPGAs requires more sophisticated, ASIC-like tools and methodologies".
"Our partnership with Hier Design makes it easier for the PlanAhead user to plan and analyse multiple physical implementations, maximising design space exploration by more quickly identifying optimal implementations".
Concept Engineering's visualisation engine is connected with PlanAhead's netlist and floorplan views to provide cross highlighting from the analysis report to critical paths graphically traced within the floorplan.
Designers can debug logic paths by selectively clicking pins and nets in the schematic cone view and by tracing the corresponding interconnect in the floorplan.
Product demonstrations for the Nlview Widget family and PlanAhead will be given next week at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) in San Diego, California, on the Concept Engineering and Hier Design booths, respectively.
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