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TITLE: ASIC EMULATION USING FPGAS
SpeedGate Inc. is an Austin, Texas based
EDA company targeting the well publicized "ASIC verification
bottleneck". The company's first product, the FPGA Stuffer provides an
environment for developing ASIC emulation prototypes using
off the shelf FPGAs interconnected via custom or re-configurable
printed circuit boards. This methodology is commonly referred
to as "roll your own" or Open System Emulation.
The FPGA Stuffer addresses primary bottlenecks that have kept
emulation/prototyping from becoming main stream verification
technology:
- The difficulty of partitioning the design between multiple
FPGAs.
- The difficulty of observing all signals internal to the FPGA
for debug purposes.
- The lack of an environment providing a controlled process
flow and readily available project database.
The FPGA Stuffer solves these issues at the RTL level. The
software has been through an extensive 9 month Beta program on
high gate count production emulation projects including a 12M
ASIC gate design partitioned between 60 Virtex FPGAs. The FPGA
Stuffer is compatible with FPGA Compiler II, Design Compiler,
Exemplar and Synplicity. The software is available on a monthly
subscription or perpetual license basis.
For additional information, contact:
SpeedGate Inc.
3925 Braker Lane
Austin, Texas 78759
512/305-0630 Office
512/305-0009 Fax
512/657-7054 Cellular
howard@speedgateinc.com
SPEEDGATE WWW.
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FILENUMBER: 9946
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ASIC EMULATION FPGAS
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DATE: December 2000
TITLE: ASIC EMULATION USING FPGAS
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