iNSPIRE
iNSPIRE is an integrated design environment for FPGA-based emulation platforms. With iNSPIRE, you can build SoC emulation environment for a series of Dynalith’s verification products very easily. Designers just import their own design and select target emulation hardware, then iNSPIRE will generate all stuffs required to start emulation.
iNSPIRE supports stand-alone emulation mode and cycle-level or transaction-level co-emulation mode for all Dynalith’s FPGA products.
Stand-alone emulation is the fastest emulation mode without any interrupt from the host computer. The host computer concerns only the configuration before the emulation starts and debugging information upload after the emulation is over.
With cycle-level co-emulation mode, you can co-emulate your design in the target emulation hardware with the test bench (or remaining part of the DUT) running in the software simulator at the host computer.
In transaction-level co-emulation mode, the software in the host computer can be used to supply test vectors and build virtual system model through custom transactor designs.
iNSPIRE also generates perfect co-simulation environment exactly the same as the co-emulation.
iNspire provides the following features/components;
- FPGA netlist builder for Xilinx Virtex4, Virtex2, Spartan Series
- Supporting stand-alone, cycle-level and transaction-based verification modes
- GenAMBA; A software creating elemental AHB bus structure with optional secondary AHB sub-system and APB sub-system, using Dynalith’s AMBA package IP’s or other IP libraries.
- Architecture Wizard generates AMBA-based SoC platform in a minute from the IP library. IP components registered to the IP library is connected to the AMBA bus system and to the external on-board components automatically.
- Connection Wizard helps you to manage detailed interconnection among bus components, IP library and external components with Smart Connect and Auto Connect feature.
- Design Flow Wizard guides you from the creation of the project to the co-simulation and emulation control step by step.
- Advanced BILA (Build-In Logic Analyzer) utilizes various types of spare on-board memory components to store the waveform during emulation. The trade-off between the number of probing nodes and operating frequency is possible.
