EVE unleashes DW-FPGA for FPGA synthesis

SANTA CLARA, USA: EVE, the leader in hardware/software co-verification, announced the availability of DW-FPGA, a DesignWare foundation library for use with field programmable gate array (FPGA) synthesis software.

DW-FPGA offers register transfer level (RTL) source code for the most commonly used DesignWare Foundation Library intellectual property (IP) components from Synopsys Inc. DW-FPGA supports XST from Xilinx, Quartus from Altera, Synplicity’s SynplifyPro and Precision from Mentor Graphics, along with languages Verilog, VHDL and SystemVerilog. It can be used with or without EVE’s ZeBu and for simulation, emulation, prototyping and FPGA designs.

It will be demonstrated, along with EVE’s entire line of hardware/software co-verification solutions, during the 45th Design Automation Conference (DAC) in booth #301 June 9-12 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California.

When implementing an ASIC design on an FPGA or an FPGA prototyping board, the original ASIC design often uses DesignWare Foundation components not readily available for an FPGA implementation. With DW-FPGA, whenever ASIC-based RTL code references a DesignWare component of the foundation library, the synthesis tool automatically uses the synthesizable definition contained in the provided source code to infer an optimized FPGA description. DW-FPGA includes typical DesignWare functions, including adders, subtracters, multipliers, dividers, cosines and squareroot.

“EVE is focused on ZeBu, our fast emulation technology,” says Dr. Luc Burgun, EVE’s CEO and president. “However, DW-FPGA is the first EVE offering serving the wider FPGA community with more to come. These products will not be limited to ZeBu users.”