Monday, November 20, 2006
Navigation environment for HDL designs
Re-using existing code (legacy or third party) is becoming everyday practice to get designs done within schedule.
On his way to a wedding party it starts to rain and Mike misses the first exit from the highway, the next exit seems to be a million miles away. When he finally gets there he needs to follow some unfamiliar routes and he gets lost in a city he doesn't know. After some hours of searching he finally reaches the party location.
Wet, down and tired he walks in a crowd of strangers, then he sees a familiar face.
It's Sam, one of his colleagues who just got in a meeting when Mike left the office this afternoon.
'Hi Sam, how did you get here so quickly?', he asks.
Sam explains that he's so satisfied with his new navigation system.
Ever since he's had it, he's been more relaxed when going somewhere and he doesn't have to worry about complex routes or bad signs along the road.
This is close to what many design engineers experience every day with their HDL.
Re-using existing code (legacy or third party) is becoming everyday practice to get designs done within schedule.
However it might take a lot of additional time if you need to find your way through unfamiliar code without any tools that tell you where to look for the things you're searching.
In most cases, you're left with a project that takes more time then your manager has put on the schedule and you'll have to fix it.
Many design engineers around the world already discovered the advantages of working with HDL Companion.
This is a high level analysis and navigation environment for HDL designs.
HDL Companion automatically extracts numerous design details from the code and represents them in an orderly fashion to the user.
Finding definitions, searching through the design hierarchy, looking for objects in packages or modules, it all becomes fun when you have the right tool on your desk.
HDL Companion not only provides the options that enable you to explore HDL designs quickly, but also adds many other features, like: revision control, documentation generation, linting, syntax checking, interfacing to many third-party tools and team based design support.
All these things together provide an environment that should be on every engineer's desktop.
Especially as HDL Companion can be used and put aside at any time.
It only uses your HDL design files which can be ordered in your preferred design structure.
This means that there's no specific design database that forces you to start and finish your design with this tool.
It's just like the navigation system in your car, it doesn't change the roads but it tells you how to get to your destination via the fastest route.
On his way to a wedding party it starts to rain and Mike misses the first exit from the highway, the next exit seems to be a million miles away. When he finally gets there he needs to follow some unfamiliar routes and he gets lost in a city he doesn't know. After some hours of searching he finally reaches the party location.
Wet, down and tired he walks in a crowd of strangers, then he sees a familiar face.
It's Sam, one of his colleagues who just got in a meeting when Mike left the office this afternoon.
'Hi Sam, how did you get here so quickly?', he asks.
Sam explains that he's so satisfied with his new navigation system.
Ever since he's had it, he's been more relaxed when going somewhere and he doesn't have to worry about complex routes or bad signs along the road.
This is close to what many design engineers experience every day with their HDL.
Re-using existing code (legacy or third party) is becoming everyday practice to get designs done within schedule.
However it might take a lot of additional time if you need to find your way through unfamiliar code without any tools that tell you where to look for the things you're searching.
In most cases, you're left with a project that takes more time then your manager has put on the schedule and you'll have to fix it.
Many design engineers around the world already discovered the advantages of working with HDL Companion.
This is a high level analysis and navigation environment for HDL designs.
HDL Companion automatically extracts numerous design details from the code and represents them in an orderly fashion to the user.
Finding definitions, searching through the design hierarchy, looking for objects in packages or modules, it all becomes fun when you have the right tool on your desk.
HDL Companion not only provides the options that enable you to explore HDL designs quickly, but also adds many other features, like: revision control, documentation generation, linting, syntax checking, interfacing to many third-party tools and team based design support.
All these things together provide an environment that should be on every engineer's desktop.
Especially as HDL Companion can be used and put aside at any time.
It only uses your HDL design files which can be ordered in your preferred design structure.
This means that there's no specific design database that forces you to start and finish your design with this tool.
It's just like the navigation system in your car, it doesn't change the roads but it tells you how to get to your destination via the fastest route.
# posted by Swathi @ 10:29 AM 
