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FPGA Advantage
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The hidden success behind FPGA
adoption is simple — the promises are
real. Companies are successfully leveraging
FPGA technology to support
new competitive business models. The
FPGA Advantage® integrated design
environment from Mentor Graphics
delivers a comprehensive FPGA
vendor neutral system targeted to
support your high-complexity design
requirements by braiding together the
proven capabilities of HDL Designer
Series™ for design management,
creation and documentation,
ModelSim® for verification, and
Precision™ RTL Synthesis or
LeonardoSpectrum™ synthesis for
advanced device implementation.
FPGA Advantage provides the power
and capacity necessary for today’s
complex FPGA designs.
Harnessing Chaos
A complex design may be described
by the number of design files, the
number of equivalent system gates, the
performance characteristics of the
design, the number of engineers on the
design team, the geographic distribution
of team members or by some other
quantifiable metric. Each dimension of
design complexity provides distraction
and impacts your productivity.
Professionals Only
Every evolution of FPGA technology
delivers more gates, higher
performance, and embedded digital
miracles at a lower cost per gate
allowing the opportunity to once again
innovate and gain a new competitive
edge. FPGA Advantage provides the
capacity to handle today’s and
tomorrow’s most advanced devices,
gaining you the ability to leverage new
technology as it becomes available.
Embedded design data management
provides the foundation of the sophisticated
team environment necessary to
coordinate global engineering efforts
while maintaining maximum flexibility
for the local engineer. FPGA
Advantage complements intuitive
design creation and re-use with
advanced “ASIC proven” verification
methods. Finally, this is the only FPGA
design system that extends the implementation
flow into the Mentor
Graphics PCB design system to give
you market-dominating power.
On the Job
Within FPGA Advantage, design
analysis begins the moment a design
project is formed. The design object
relationships are extracted to provide
both design centric ease of use as well as
trivializing the daunting task of navigating
a multi-million-gate design. The
sophisticated DesignPad text entry environment
features additional design
analysis techniques necessary for
quickly navigating large HDL descriptions.
In addition to organizational
analysis, each leaf level of the design
may be rapidly visualized using
Interface-Based Design™ (IBD™) tables.
The Heart of Verification
FPGA Advantage delivers leading
compiler/simulator performance,
complete freedom to mix VHDL and
Verilog, and the unmatched ability to
customize the simulator. You have
access to many advanced technologies
such as Direct Compile for the fastest
compile times, Tcl/Tk technology for a
customizable user interface, and Single
Kernel Simulation for mixing VHDL
and Verilog. In addition, you may
rapidly generate alternate graphical and
tabular representations to aide in design
verification.