Mixed-mode debugging tool will analyze and debug circuits that contain both digital and transistor-level components - see it at DAC
Concept Engineering has announced the release of SGvision PRO, a mixed-mode debugging tool that allows system-on-chip (SoC) designers and verification engineers to more quickly analyze and debug circuits that contain both digital and transistor-level components. SGvision PRO supports mixed-level debugging of SPICE and Verilog standard languages at the same time.
Many SoC implementation and debugging problems can be easily understood and solved when designers get detailed information and debug support not only from their pure digital components (Verilog), but also from the analog or library components (SPICE). Existing customers of the Concept's
GateVision® PRO (for gate-level debugging) and SpiceVision® PRO (for transistor-level debugging) tools had been requesting capabilities that would allow them to analyze mixed-level descriptions with top-level structures described in Verilog and lower-level structures described via SPICE.
SGvision PRO is said to be an easy-to-use, very high performance and high capacity tool that is customizable via a tcl-based UserWare API (application programming interface), which allows designers to extend the functionality of SGvision PRO to meet the immediate needs of the project. The tool provides the debugging features known from the existing GateVision PRO and
SpiceVision PRO products to help reduce the complexity of the debug process and make it easier to understand and fix mixed-mode designs. For example, SGvision PRO helps to reduce the complexity of the debug process via its interactive logic cone navigation feature, showing just the critical
portion of the design in one debugging window (the Logic Cone Window) while providing links to the original SPICE or Verilog source code at the same time. As a result, engineers can easily work on the important critical fragments of their project; are not disturbed by graphics and information
that is not relevant for the job at hand; and get visual feedback about the design level (gates or/and transistors) that is most important to solve the current design/verification problem.
Free evaluation packages for SGvision PRO are available and initial product demonstrations will be provided in Concept Engineering's booth #720 at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2006 in San Francisco's Moscone Center from
July 24 through 27, 2006.
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