SpiceVision PRO tool with digital RTL and gates from our advanced RTLvision PRO tool. It is fully customizable and incorporates many advanced features not available in other debug solutions, to handle the most complex of SoC platforms.
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Advanced, General-Purpose Debug
IP-Based SoC Debug – Working with third party IP requires the comprehension of unfamiliar code. Concept’s visualization technology allows unfamiliar sections of the SoC to be easily understood, enabling fast IP integration and problem resolution. Due to the many different data formats supported by StarVision PRO engineers can explore, analyze and debug almost any SoC and IP building block within a single, easy-to-use debug cockpit.
Path Extraction & Logic Cone Window – The customizable path extraction engine can automatically identify and extract critical paths in a design, allowing for bugs to be easily tracked from observation point to actual cause. A configurable logic cone window can also be displayed to rapidly examine drive logic. These two features provide fast cause-effect observation, the heart of accelerated debug.
Easy Design Exploration – Leveraging Concept’s leading visualization technology, the interactive design navigation window shows schematic fragments of just the critical portion of the design linked to the original source code (RTL, Netlist, SPICE) and to simulation results.
Abstract SoC View – Today’s SoCs, containing a myriad of IP blocks and complex interconnect, have reached complexities that make it very hard for engineers to understand component structure and interaction. StarVision PRO automatically generates displays of complex design sections showing overall functional blocks with important information and structure. This provides a quick overview of the SoC under investigation, which may be instantly flipped to reveal abstract or detailed information.
Analog, Mixed-Mode and Transistor-Level Debug
Integration of RTL, Gate, SPICE Debug and Visualization – In SoC design, engineers need to work at different abstraction levels, for example, RTL, gate, transistor, analog, and parasitic. StarVision PRO provides full analog debug and analysis, mixed with digital debug that leverages waveform, schematic and other displays. StarVision PRO enables engineers to find connection points where analog and digital circuits meet and can check to ensure a clean “transition.”
Automatic Logic Recognition – The built-in automatic logic recognition engine creates digital logic symbols from pure SPICE-level netlists for easy transistor-level design exploration and analysis.
Parasitic Analysis for Post-Layout Debug – Parasitic networks can be analyzed and displayed visually. SPICE netlist fragments may be automatically created or pruned for the further debug of critical circuit sections.
Specialized Functionality and Customization Features
Clock Tree Extraction – Clock signals are often a source of problems in complex SoC design. StarVision PRO automatically extracts and analyzes clock trees and gives an immediate, configurable view of clock networks and domains. Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) logic may be automatically extracted and analyzed.
User Specific Customization – API access is provided to all aspects of StarVision PRO, allowing for extensive customization and specialized features to be easily coded in TCL and executed. Many UserWare examples are provided with StarVision PRO.
UserWare Plugin Mechanism – In order to make it easy for organizations to manage and deploy customized tool features within an organization, StarVision PRO comes with a smart UserWare plugin mechanism that makes it very easy to add and exchange new tool features within development teams and organizations.
C Code Customization – In addition to the Tcl UserWare interface, a C API is also provided that allows application specific C code to be bundled into to the debugger. This allows end users to add new tool features with full access to the tool database and internal data structures and offers broad data iteration and modification. Examples of applications that have been coded into the tool include linting, netlist pruning, and FPGA partitioning.
Waveform Viewer and Signal Tracing – StarVision PRO comes with a fully integrated digital waveform browser and with support for interactive signal tracing in the source code, schematic view and waveform window. StarVision PRO compiles simulation output into a high-performance database for accelerated waveform browsing and signal tracing.
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