ProcSoC systems
GiDEL's ProcSoC3 & ProcSoC10 System Targets
ASIC/ SoC Development Projects of 6 to 360+Million Gates
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Overview
As a module of the ProcSoC™ Verification System the ProcSoC10™
provides scalability for multiple systems to be interconnected and used
to verify SoC designs with 360 million+ gates. GiDEL's ProcSoC10 is
itself a modular and scalable ASIC verification system.
The
ProcSoC10 module has a rated capacity of up to 120 million ASIC gates.
Fast /Gigabit Ethernet communication combined with GiDEL's development
tools, enable users to run regression tests on their ASIC designs and to
debug the entire chip design including embedded software across their
company's local area network. The ProcSoC10 is operated in an in-circuit
emulation mode with high performance I/O’s interfaced to a target or
prototype system. Real world data and applications software comprise
test suites with the system’s debugging tools providing visibility to
buses and internal nodes of the design.
Up to ten, 6 million/ 12 million gate, reconfigurable PROC6M / PROC12M
boards, each with two, interconnected high speed
Stratix IV 8200 FPGAs or Stratix III 340 FPGAs, may be in a single
ProcSoC10 system. Each ProcSoC10 module can perform as a single ASIC
device at typical system speeds of 35 to 300MHz, or shared to verify
different design blocks or small, independent SoC designs.
The ProcSoC10’s unique interconnect topology, enables any FPGA to
directly connect to any other FPGA in the same ProcSoC10 or other
ProcSoC10s, through up to six interconnections per FPGA of 118 pins
each. Additionally there are 261 FPGA-to-FPGA I/O connections on each
PROC6M/ PROC12M element and 5 global lines connecting all FPGAs.
The system is optimized for speed, eliminating the extra delays inherent
within routing switches, and hops through FPGAs and other connection
technologies used in legacy systems.
Fast, efficient implementation and debug shortens your project
schedules.
Every ProcSoC10 module includes the PROC Developer’s Kit. The Kit
consists of a suite of tools for the efficient mapping of your chip
designs into ProcSoC10 systems, and for debugging your design. The
PROCWizard™ Software manages these processes and integrates the files
generated by best-of-breed tools for partitioning, design mapping,
synthesis and place and route. The PROCWizard also generates a unique
application driver. For each user's application, it will generate a
dedicated driver which is extremely easy to use with optimized
performance. This enables fast setup to run comprehensive test benches
from a host across a network to the verification system.
The PROC Developer's Kit includes the following:
(1) The PROCWizard Software for configuring and debugging ASIC and
ASSP designs in the verification system,
(2) PROCMultiPort, PROCMegaFIFO, and PROCMegaDelay
IPs, for configuring onboard memory and automatic generation of
DMA controllers for fast data transfers between the verification hardware and
software on the host computer,
(3) ProcHILs enabling higher level of test-bench design using Simulink,
plus
(4) Altera’s Quartus II Software suite for FPGA mapping, synthesis, and
place and route of designs into the verification hardware,
(5) Altera’s Ethernet blaster enabling remote access to SignalTap.
Each memory block can have up to 16 ports, each with their own clock
domain and data width. PROCMegaFIFO IP provides a fast efficient mechanism to
transfer data to/from the ProcSoC10 user design and a host computer, or between
sub-designs within the ProcSoC10 using on board memory as a large FIFO.
PROCMegaDelay IP provides a simple mechanism for using on-board memory for large
delays used for frame and field delay 3D matrix computation and more.
This entire reusable system enables you to focus on your proprietary
value-added design, and not spend your valuable months of effort to create
verification platforms that are unique to a specific project.
ProcSoC3 system offers the same features as the
ProcSoC10 but for smaller application requires 3 to 36 million ASIC gates.
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Benefits
Leading edge performance.
Maximum flexibility to fit
customer needs.
Cuts development cycle time and
budget.
Reliability.
Maintainability.
Long life cycle.
Find and Resolve More Bugs Faster.
With the ProcSoC10, your tests will run
faster, and you will find those hard to reach bugs quicker.
The PROC Developer’s Kit contains robust debug capabilities
allowing use of both distributed memories within the FPGAs and onboard memories
to capture signal data. The PROCWizard debug GUI enables
direct access to the design IOs and running of tests. Scripts are
automatically generated of the testing process for replay. The configurable
multi-port on-board memories can be easily set up to capture data from thousands
of probe points during testing with virtually unlimited depth. Also, with the
Altera's SignalTap or Synplicity's Identify probes can be set for more
visibility using internal FPGA memories. This combination of internal and
external memory usage for data capture practically eliminates the need to
recompile the FPGAs for visibility.
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