Concept Engineering's T-Engine Empowers Visual Debugging in imPROVE-TLL, TransEDA's Functional Abstraction Tool.ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Integration helps designers to better understand, control and debug To correct a problem in hardware or software. Debugging software means locating the errors in the source code (the program logic). Debugging hardware means finding errors in the circuit design (logical circuits) or in the physical interconnections of the circuits. the logical abstraction process of their full-custom digital IP blocks Concept Engineering today announced a multi-year worldwide OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and license agreement with TransEDA, a leading provider of coverage and verification measurement solutions for electronic designs. TransEDA has integrated Concept Engineering's NlviewQT Widget Pronounced "wih-jit," for decades, the term has been a popular word for a generic "thing" when there is no real name for it. It is often used to describe examples of made-up products along with other fictitious names; for example, "10 widgets, 5 frabbits and 2 dingits. (TM) with the transistor-level visualization option (T-engine(TM)) into TransEDA's imPROVE-TLL transistor-level functional abstraction tool. The NlviewQT Widget is the industry-standard schematic generation, viewing and debugging software for electronic design automation (EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. ) tool developers who develop graphical user interfaces in C++ and use the Qt GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. development kit. imPROVE-TLL automatically performs an in-depth analysis of a transistor netlist, accurately extracting its logic behavior to generate the corresponding high-level HDL (Hardware Description Language) A language used to describe the functions of an electronic circuit for documentation, simulation or logic synthesis (or all three). Although many proprietary HDLs have been developed, Verilog and VHDL are the major standards. description, in VHDL (VHSIC Hardware Description Language) A hardware description language (HDL) used to design electronic systems at the component, board and system level. VHDL allows models to be developed at a very high level of abstraction. or Verilog. TransEDA's imPROVE-TLL debugging facility provides graphical views of both the original transistor-level-structures and the high-level HDL description, and allows cross-probing between these two views. Using imPROVE-TLL, full-custom design engineers can better understand, optimize and debug their circuits and IP blocks, while verification engineers can achieve orders of magnitude faster functional verification Functional verification, in electronic design automation, is the task of verifying that the logic design conforms to specification. In everyday terms, functional verification attempts to answer the question "Does this proposed design do what is intended?" This is a complex task, . "The ability of imPROVE-TLL to automatically extract logic behavior from transistor structures offers unique verification options," said Gerhard Angst, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Concept Engineering. "We are pleased that our T-engine product helped TransEDA to quickly add advanced visual debugging capabilities." "No other transistor-level visualization engine offers the performance and quality that T-engine offers," said Jerome Sordoillet, product line marketing manager for TransEDA. "We needed a powerful visualization software with both transistor-level and high-level HDL visualization capabilities, and realized that by integrating Concept Engineering's products, we would save a great deal of time, money and resources." TransEDA will demonstrate imPROVE-TLL at the 42nd Design Automation Conference (DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter ), Anaheim, Calif., June 13-17, in booth #1358. Concept Engineering will demonstrate the Nlview Widget family at DAC in booth #735. About T-engine The Nlview Widget product family generates schematics at the transistor, gate, register-transfer, block and system level. T-engine provides advanced visualization technology to EDA tool developers who work with transistor-level-structures. When integrated with EDA tools, T-engine helps designers of electronic integrated circuits (ICs) and systems on a chip (SoCs) visualize such critical information as circuit structure, timing data and signal values at the transistor level, so they can more easily and accurate tune designs for maximum performance. T-engine also makes it easier to understand output results of cell and IP-block characterization tools. About imPROVE-TLL TransEDA's imPROVE-TLL automatically performs an in-depth analysis of a transistor netlist, accurately extracting its logic behavior to generate the corresponding high-level HDL description. This extracted model can be used for process retargeting or to address more effective functional verification. Resulting from multi-year R&D, imPROVE-TLL can abstract complex library cells, large RAMs and IP blocks, and multi-million transistor designs in minutes, in the final stage of verifying a transistor netlist before tape out. About Concept Engineering Concept Engineering is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in Freiburg, Germany, founded in 1990 to develop and market innovative schematic generation and viewing technology for use with logic synthesis, verification, test automation and physical design tools. The company's customers are primarily original equipment EDA tool manufacturers (OEMs), in-house CAD tool developers and semiconductor companies. For more information, see http://www.concept.de. |
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