Product/Service

RTL Development Environment

Source: InTime Software, Inc.
The DesignWarrior is an Integrated RTL Development Environment coupled with Automated Implementation Flows, which improves chip performance by guiding...
The DesignWarrior is an Integrated RTL Development Environment coupled with Automated Implementation Flows, which improves chip performance by guiding design teams to develop better Register-Transfer Level (RTL) designs. The product's virtual prototyping capabilities are used to inject WireAwareness into the RTL code. Its technology makes performance prediction possible before a single line of RTL is developed and continues refining the prediction until the RTL code is completed.

Automated Implementation Flows drive simulation, synthesis and place and route tools. DesignWarrior is aware of the different views (logical, synthesis, and physical) of a design enabling it to determine the points in the hierarchy from where the design should be simulated, synthesized or placed and routed. It automatically sets up the parameters, rules, and constraints, based on the estimations derived during the virtual prototyping phase, to drive these processes. It develops timing budgets for the blocks in the design and drives the implementation flow, all transparently to the designer.

The offering is designed for system companies, IDMs and semiconductor vendors involved in the design of complex ASICs, ASSPs and SOCs. It includes InSight, the designer's desktop, a Technology Wizard and a Project Wizard. InSight provides designers with RTL design entry capability, virtual prototyping, auto-piloted implementation flows and fully automated RTL design planning. The Project Wizard is used to describe the team make up, the design goals, and evaluate the target technology against the design specifications. The Technology Wizard automatically creates design kits using industry standard formats such as LEF, DEF, .lib and STAMP.

The product predicts the performance of the design using its virtual prototyping, or automated design planning engine. This prediction process is ongoing as the design progresses through implementation. DesignWarrior automatically gathers data from the project definition, other parts of the design and other designers. With this information designers can chat about, negotiate, tag and resolve issues related to the team's design.

DesignWarrior runs on Sun workstations and supports Verilog.

InTime Software, Inc., 10131 Bubb Rd., Cupertino, CA 95014. Tel: 408-565-0111; Fax: 408-565-0110.