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News Release from: Mentor Graphics UK | Subject: HDL Designer Series 2002.1
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 17 April 2002
Interface-based design simplifies IC interconnects
The latest release of the HDL Designer Series tool suite from Mentor Graphics offers productivity enhancements including an improved interconnect table
The latest release of the HDL designer Series tool suite from Mentor Graphics offers productivity enhancements including an improved interconnect table that enables rapid creation of high-quality well structured Hardware Description Language (HDL) for any level of design complexity. HDL Designer Series speeds the creation and analysis of complex ASICs, FPGAs and SoC designs, allowing teams to realise rapid time to market.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 17 April 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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"The complementary tools in the Mentor Graphics HDL Designer Series tool suite provide designers with a complete environment for HDL design, analysis and management, regardless of their approach to HDL design", said Valerie Rachko, HDL Designer Series marketing director for Mentor Graphics.
"Features such as interface-based design have proven invaluable in simplifying the challenge of describing complex interconnect.
Our new release strengthens documentation, visualisation, debugging and design management to facilitate team design".
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Interface-based design (IBD) simplifies interconnect creation problems by displaying design interconnect structures in an easy-to-view, compact tabular format.
This tabular editing environment allows designers to rapidly specify signal connections and generate the equivalent VHDL or Verilog structural description.
The IBD description can also be viewed as a block diagram.
HDL Designer Series 2002.1 provides significant new features to IBD, including capabilities to: insert and delete nets and propagate changes across the hierarchy; relevel hierarchy by adding or removing levels; dynamically update between IBD and block diagram views; expand or collapse rows and columns to customise view; and reorder rows and columns using drag and drop feature.
The Debug Detective offering within HDL Designer Series enhances HDL simulation and improves productivity within a ModelSim design flow.
Debug Detective runs within ModelSim, using graphical and tabular diagrams of HDL source code to enhance design debug.
New features and enhancements to Debug Detective include: improved state machine rendering recognition; configurable probe display; improved simulation control available from simulation toolbar and ModelSim menus; and extended probe change information and force control.
HDL Designer Series 2002.1 is available now and starts at $2000 US for a node-locked license.
The tool suite is now available for Windows XP, Red Hat Linux 7.2 and HP-UX 11.11 platforms in addition to existing support for Windows 98, NT and 2000, Solaris 7 and 8, HP-UX 11.00 and Red Hat Linux 6.2.
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