| Name | Type | Details |
| Web Seminars at Planet EE.com | Webcast |
Description: Planet EE (Penton Electronics Group) hosts a number of on-demand webcasts at this site.
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Author(s): Various License: Commercial Format: HTML, Other Price: free URL: http://www.planetee.com/ Events/ ReviewText: Topics at the time of this entry include:
Keywords: power , DAC , oscilloscope , DSP , Spice , RoHS , RTL , HSpice , FPGAs , TCAD , Composite Current Source Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1167794877 (single entry page) |
| Unified Power Format | Specification |
Description: From the UPF spec: "UPF provides the ability for electronic systems to be designed with power as a key consideration early in the
process. It accomplishes this through the ability to allow the specification of implementation-relevant power
information early in the design process RTL (register transfer level) or earlier."
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Author(s): accellera License: Other Format: PDF Price: Free download URL: http://www.accellera.org/ activities/ upf/ ReviewText: The UPF Version 1.0 Spec is available for immediate download at this location. Keywords: power , Verilog , HDL , RTL , Accellera , netlist , UPF , Unified Power Format Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1174021787 (single entry page) |
| Name | Type | Details |
| Alli@nce VLSI CAD System | VLSI Development |
Description: The Alli@nce homepage says it best: "Alliance is a complete set of free CAD tools and portable libraries for VLSI design. It includes a VHDL compiler and simulator, logic synthesis tools, and automatic place and route tools. A complete set of portable CMOS libraries is provided. Alliance is the result of a twelve year effort spent at ASIM department of LIP6 laboratory of the Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris VI, France). Alliance has been used for research projects such as the 875 000 transistors StaCS superscalar microprocessor and 400 000 transistors IEEE Gigabit HSL Router.
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License: Open Source, GNU or similar Price: free URL: http://www-asim.lip6.fr/ recherche/ alliance/ doc/ design-flow/ tools.html OSs: Windows, Linux, Solaris, Source Available Limitations: Binaries, source code and cell libraries are available under the GNU General Public License (GPL). ReviewText: The Alli@ance Tools Overview page does a great job of specifying the strengths and weaknesses of each tool in the CAD system. We'll limit ourselves here to simply listing the tools:
Keywords: VHDL , CIF , GDS , simulator , place & route , CAD , DRC , RTL , schematic , standard cells , RAM , ROM , Alliance CAD , formal proof , formal verification , logic synthesis , data-path , netlist extraction , FSM , layout editor , equivalence checker Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1150681894 (single entry page) |
| GOF: Gates On the Fly | netlist processing |
Description: GOF is a graphical netlist processing tool which integrates a netlist browser, partial schematic and ECO capability.
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License: Commercial Price: free for personal or educational use URL: http://www.nandigits.com/ home.htm OSs: Windows, Linux Limitations: A license for commercial use is $50. ReviewText: Has features for isolating logic cones. Can interface to waveform viewers (Verdi and GTKWave). Keywords: Verilog , RTL , schematic , Verdi , GTKWave , netlist , ECO Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1158117482 (single entry page) |
| SPARK C-to-VHDL high-level synthesis framework | High level synthesis |
Description: "SPARK takes behavioral ANSI-C code as input, schedules it using speculative code motions and loop transformations, runs an interconnect-minimizing resource binding pass and generates a finite state machine for the scheduled design graph. Finally, a backend code generation pass outputs synthesizable register-transfer level (RTL) VHDL. This VHDL can then by synthesized using logic synthesis tools into an ASIC or by mapped onto a FPGA.
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License: Restricted - see web site for details Price: free for non-commercial use URL: http://mesl.ucsd.edu/ spark/ OSs: Windows, Linux, Solaris Limitations: This software is Copyright 2003-2004 The Regents of the University of California. All Rights Reserved. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for educational, research and non-profit purposes, without fee, and without a written agreement is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice, this paragraph and the following three paragraphs appear in all copies. Permission to incorporate this software into commercial products or for use in a commercial setting may be obtained by contacting: Technology Transfer Office
Support for fixed point math appears to be limited to specifying precision for built-in C datatypes. The tool is downloadable from the University of California at San Diego website, and is backed up by a number of academic publications. |
| C to Verilog | High level synthesis |
Description: C to Verilog is an easy to use web-based service which accepts a C language description of your datapath and generates synthesizable Verilog output.
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License: Commercial Price: free URL: http://www.ctoverilog.com OSs: Other Limitations: C-to-Verilog provides a free on-line service which allows users to compile their existing C code into optimized RTL. This RTL can be synthesized into an FPGA. They provide this service to demonstrate their technology. Companies who wish to license their technology or individuals who wish to make commercial use of the service can contact them. Application examples include:
Synthesis parameters appear to be globally applicable, and include:
Commercial tools may give you more control over your generated output, but if you have a limited budget and a need to quickly generate code for an FPGA application, then you should check out C to Verilog. |
| Name | Type | Details |
| Accellera | Standards |
Description: From their website: "Accellera was formed in 2000 through the unification of Open Verilog International and VHDL International to focus on identifying new standards, development of standards and formats, and to foster the adoption of new methodologies."
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Dues: $5k->$15K URL: http://www.accellera.org/ home/ Limitations: At the time of posting, annual corporate membership runs $15K per year. Associate membership is $5K per year. ReviewText: You can download the Accellera Open Verification Library (OVL). We went looking for VHDL and Verilog reference manuals, and couldn't find them. Keywords: Verilog , VHDL , PLI , OVI , SDF , Vital , RTL , Accellera Submitter: EE HomePage Editorial Staff Affiliation: None xml_ID: 1145131228 (single entry page) |
