VHDLStudio.pdf

VHDL

Studio

The Intelligent VHDL

Design Entry and Verification Environment

Increase Productivity

VHDL Studio™ provides ad-

vanced design entry with design

wizards and incremental analysis.

Design wizards streamline the de-

sign entry process by automating

tedious and time-consuming tasks.

With the incremental analysis con-

tinually analyzing your code as

you edit, VHDL Studio™ can pro-

vide early error detection on-the-

fly as well as access to up-to-date

design navigation.

Reduce Overhead

VHDL Studio™ integrates design

entry with fast VHDL’93 behav-

ioral and structural (VITAL/SDF)

simulation. With a single seam-

less environment for both design

entry and verification, less time is

spent learning and using two dif-

applications.

Computing Systems, Inc.

VHDL Studio™

Product Features:

Project Management

Design Entry

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Project Creation Wizard

Existing designs can be easily imported into

VHDL Studio™ with the project wizard, which

determines all the files and librar ies requir ed by

a given top-level entity/architecture.

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VHD L Editor

The built-in editor performs color highlighting

of VHDL source code to fac ilitate read in g, and

automatic identifier comp letion to reduce typ -

ing.

S tate Machine Editor

T he most intuitive way to design a

state machine is with a state ma-

chine diagram. VHDL Studio™

includes a gr ap hical state machin e

dia gram editor for intuitive state

machin e entry that automatically

and transp arently generates a

VHDL imp lementation.

•

Project Browser

The browser provides a quick overview display

of the project. Each file in the project and its

contents are displayed, including libraries exter-

nal to the project.

•

On-the -fly Error De te ction

Using incr emental analy sis, VHDL Studio™

can instantly detect sy ntax errors as y ou typ e

and eliminate the tedious comp ile, lo cate error,

and edit cy cle.

•

Automatic Build

VHDL Studio™ automatically calculates file

dependencies and determines the correct compi-

lation order for the selected tar get.

•

Auto-prom pting

Auto prompts provide you quick information

about previously defined subprogram signa-

tures, and signal/variable types without leaving

your current editing position to locate the defi-

nition in another location or even in another file.

Auto prompts are always up-to-date due to

VHDL Studio’s incre mental an aly sis engin e.

•

Er ror Na vigation

Compilation errors are easily located by double

clicking on error messages to jump to the er-

ror’s location in the source file.

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VHDL Studio™

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Instance/Component Creators

Component and instance wizards

make component declaration and

instantiation a snap . Just select any

entity from your project and the

comp onent creator will insert a

matching component declar ation in

your design. The instance creator

provides a simple graphical inter-

face for assignin g loca l signals to

the p orts of the instantiated entity for fast, error-

free component instantiation.

simp ly right click on its

name to instantly jump to

its definition .

Navigation History

Even with all the advan ced

design navigation features

of VHDL Studio™. you’ll

never get lost with the

“back” button, which will

quickly return you to your

previous location in the design.

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Simulation

•

Graphical Testbench Designer

The testbench designer provides a gr aphical

waveform editor for simp le and intuitive test-

bench design. In interactive mode, the simula-

tor updates output waveforms as you edit the

inp uts. T iming che cks and data

checkp oints are also easily added

to the waveform diagr am. You

can run the testbench within

VHDL studio for a graphical dis-

p lay of timing and d ata violations

or run the automatically -gen erated

VHDL testbench yourself.

Native VHDL’93 Compiler

VHDL Studio™ includes a new version of the

Green M ountain VHDL Compiler for fast, di-

rect-compile simulation.

•

Design Navigation

•

Hierarchy Browser

The hierarchy browser provides a

complete structural view of your

design’s units, blocks, instances

and processes, as well as type, sig-

nal, variable, and subprogram in-

formation. Double clicking on

any item in the browser instantly brings you to

the file and line number where the item is de-

fined. Thanks to VHDL Studio's incremental

analysis, the browser is always up-to-date with

chan ges mad e in the editor.

•

Wa ve f orm D i s pl ay

Graphical waveform display makes simulation

results easy to browse and understand.

•

S ource-Level Debugging

Source- level debugging provides statement-by-

statement execution for detailed debugging.

Source- level debugging includes breakpoints to

quickly simulate to the point of interest for de-

tailed, statement-by-statement debugging.

•

Hype rte xt N avi gati on

In VHDL Studio™ your VHDL is more than

plain text, its hypertext! If you forget the type

of that signal, or the ar guments to that function,

VHDL Studio™

20MB of hard-disk space (installation only)

· Tcl/Tk Scripting

The simulator provides Tcl/Tk script support to

enable unlimited customization and automation.

· VITAL Optimization

The new version of the Green Mountain VHDL

Compiler in VHDL Studio™ includes VITAL

specific optimizations and built- in VITAL librar-

ies delivering performance up to 7 times faster

than the previous version.

· SDF Backannotation

Post-route simulation with timing information is

provided through standard SDF backannotation.

Product Support

CD-ROM

Solaris

Sparc V8 or better/64MB of RAM

20MB of hard-disk space (installation only)

CD-ROM

Components

On-line VHDL Tutorial

On-line VHDL Reference Manual

On-line User’s Guide

Project Wizard

Project Manager

Design Browser

VHDL Editor

Incremental Analysis

· Free Technical Support

E- mail support is provided at no charge.

· Free Minor-Release Updates

VHDL Studio™ owners have access to the most

recent minor release via our support Web pages.

· No Maintenance Fees

Technical support and minor release upgrades are

provided with no annual maintenance fees.

System Requirements

Windows

State Machine Editor

Instance Wizard

Test Bench Generator

VHDL’93 Simulation

Source- Level Debugger

Waveform Viewer

VITAL/SDF Simulation

Tcl/Tk Scripting

Pentium PC/64MB of RAM

Contact Information

For more information or to order call 800-656-5380

(fax: 802-434-5071), visit our Web site at:

http:\\www.gmvhdl.com

or write to:

Green Mountain Computing Systems, Inc.

P.O. Box 275

Richmond, VT 05477

Microsoft Windows 98, Me, NT 4.0, or 2000

20MB of hard-disk space (installation only).

CD-ROM

Linux

Pentium PC/64MB of RAM

Linux 2.0 or greater

Computing Systems, Inc.

Solaris 2.7 or 2.8

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