China's portable energy consumer market will increase its purchases by 30%-50% compared to 2011. With the upgrading of FPGA silicon chips, the number of gates of FPGA products is increasing, and the performance and specialized functions are gradually strengthened, making FPGAs replace the functions that only ASICs and ASSPs can play in the field of electronic systems. However, the FPGA must be supported by appropriate design tools to allow the designer to fully play its role, otherwise the best products are meaningless.
Provide a portable and efficient design environment
For the development of hybrid system architecture, Impulse C, a rapid system modeling platform, is built to build the system model.
Now FPGA has entered the era of silicon fusion, integrating DSP, ARM, etc. This hybrid system architecture requires a better development environment, such as embedded software tools OS support, DSP programming, C-based programming tools, system interconnection, synthesis And simulation and timing analysis. To this end, Aldec has developed an advanced ESL (Electronic System Level)-based rapid system modeling platform, Impulse C, for the development of hybrid system architecture. In this environment, designers can use high-level language C to describe the system, quickly establish a target system model, and verify. Once the system model is established, the hardware and software partitioning and collaborative verification of the established system model can be performed in the Impulse C environment to ensure that the built system model can meet the requirements of the target system, and then the hardware of the system is integrated by C. Partially optimized to the target FPGA, and automatically generate system hardware and software interfaces and interconnection information.
For C-integrated solutions, Aldec's Impulse C provides fast, reliable conversion from C-based design/algorithms to RTL-level descriptions; complete and reliable system design verification, rich system optimization, and extensive target platform support . Impulse C also supports embedded hardware and software acceleration systems and computational acceleration system design. Based on the C-based application, the HDL code converted by Impulse C provides source and basis for post-static rule detection, dynamic verification and design evaluation, thus ensuring the reliability of HDL design.
For FPGA design, Aldec offers industry-leading complete design verification solutions, including AcTIve-HDL for management, development, input, simulation and verification analysis systems. It integrates various tools in FPGA design, integrates multiple design input methods, simulation debugging technology, integration and implementation tools of vendors and third parties, and libraries of all major manufacturers, providing engineers with an easy-to-use and powerful function. The superior performance and efficient solution enable designers to design complex and cost-effective electronic products at the fastest speed, greatly shortening the product design cycle. AcTIve-HDL offers a variety of design input support, greatly improving simulation speed through a variety of patented technologies, and tools to support single-core hybrid simulation. In addition, AcTIve-HDL offers a variety of practical and powerful timing analysis and error correction methods to speed up the debugging process and maximize reliability.
For static rule checking, Aldec provides Alint as a comprehensive, efficient, multi-level rule checking tool. Alint uses the principle of PBL (Phase-Based LinTIng) methodology to provide support for mainstream rule bases (such as STARC, DO-254, RMM, etc.), starting with design input to ensure the quality and reliability of the later logic implementation. Shorten development cycles and reduce costs.
For higher simulation verification acceleration requirements, Aldec provides the HES hardware physical level simulation verification acceleration platform, which has a number of proprietary technologies to ensure that the simulation verification speed is on the order of magnitude, while the physical verification environment guarantees the reliability of logic design. .
In summary, Aldec's tools provide a convenient and efficient design environment, safe and reliable design assurance, and significant design/verification/simulation efficiency.
Demand for third-party professional EDA tools continues to grow
The growing range of applications for FPGAs has created new business opportunities and challenges for third-party tools and development platform providers.
Currently, mainstream FPGA device vendors also provide some development kits, but most of these development tools can only meet the functions required for the basic development process, and mainly focus on the back-end synthesis, place and route, the physical structure of the FPGA chip, and the development of new devices. Little support is provided for the most important front-end design, verification, and evaluation, all of which require professional third-party EDA tools.
As the specialized division of labor becomes more and more detailed, FPGA device manufacturers will put a lot of effort into the upgrading of FPGA device technology, improve integration, reduce power consumption, expand hardware functions, etc., and software design and verification of programmable chips. It requires the support of increasingly powerful third-party EDA tools. Third-party professional EDA vendors will focus on the development of programmable device design verification expertise software designed to improve design efficiency, reliability and accuracy, while FPGA vendors focus on delivering better performance and greater integration. High-level, lower-power FPGA devices, professional EDA vendors pay more attention to design convenience, verification diversity, and reliability of design results, and provide seamless integration with FPGA device vendor tools and other platforms Connect and collaboratively develop solutions.
In summary, device vendors and professional third-party EDA tool vendors complement each other to form an indispensable and interdependent ecosystem. For ordinary users, with the deep application of FPGA devices and The expansion of scale and the increase in complexity will inevitably have a growing demand for third-party professional EDA tools.
The application range of FPGAs has become wider and wider, and has expanded from the communication field to the fields of industry, consumer, medical, etc. These changes have brought new business opportunities and challenges to third-party tools and development platform providers. FPGAs used in communications, industrial, consumer, medical, and other fields should be designed based on a complete professional design flow and verification process. Based on this, EDA tool vendors should provide full-process design verification tools for FPGA design in different industries, such as design management, design dynamic simulation, debugging, coverage analysis, static rule checking, physical and semi-physical verification tools, and special Special solutions in the field of technology, such as collaborative acceleration solutions for SoC and SoPC.
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Hunan Furui Mechanical and Electrical Equipment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. , https://www.thresher.nl