SoftJin’s customisable EDA components for FPGA routing, STA and software quality assurance reduce time to market for FPGA vendors

SoftJin, a customised electronic design automation (EDA) tool development company, announced the availability of new EDA building blocks that enable FPGA and other emerging programmable platform vendors to reduce their time to market of custom design tools

 

These EDA building blocks include a FPGA routing engine that is customisable to

provide a fast, cross platform timing driven router for island style FPGAs that meets

timing goals, while optimising the use of routing resources on the FPGA. The FPGA

routing engine interfaces with SoftJin's Fast Static Timing Analysis Engine. SoftJin's

Static Timing Analysis Engine is an EDA building block that can be integrated to run in

close loop with EDA tools involving timing optimisation such as synthesis, placement

and routing tools. Originally designed and integrated with SoftJin's FPGA routing

engine, SoftJin's STA engine is available as an object library with well defined interfaces

for integration with other EDA tools.

 

These routing and STA EDA components along with the previously announced

programmable synthesis engine enable SoftJin to offer a full suite of EDA components

for FPGA vendors. These EDA components that serve as core building blocks for

development and verification of an optimised tool chain targeted for FPGAs and other

programmable platforms. SoftJin also customises these EDA components based upon the

architecture of the FPGA.

 

“SoftJin's unique business model of re-using our EDA Building Blocks along with

customisation service ensures that our programmable platform customers get customised

EDA solutions that are targeted for their architecture. Re-use of our existing building

blocks enables faster time to market and lower cost as compared developing these

customised solutions from scratch.” added Nachiket Urdhwareshe, SoftJin CEO.

 

As part of the new EDA building blocks, SoftJin also announced a new test and

regression harness component technology. SoftJin's automated test and regression

environment is a versatile infrastructural framework that automates the regression

testing of EDA tools and flows. Incorporating SoftJin's deep domain knowledge of

having run regressions for in house tools and third party tools and flows, this component

technology automates several commonly performed yet highly repetitive operations. The

environment is composed of customisable, easy to use modules for organising

regression test suite, configuring and launching regression runs using a selection of

EDA tools and designs on a heterogeneous high performance computing environment,

and generating meaningful analysis reports. Along with the regression environment,

SoftJin also provides regression setup and management services, including ongoing

enhancement of test suite and use of environment to constantly monitor any functional,

performance or quality of results (QoR) issues in individual tools and the entire design

flow.

 

While the automated test and regression environment is useful for any EDA company

offering EDA tools, it is especially useful for FPGA and other programmable platforms

companies who need to provide a quality EDA tool chain composed of a mix of in house

developed and third party tools, to their customers.

 

“Our automated test and regression environment enable EDA teams to perform more

effective regression runs in lesser time. By automation of commonly performed manual

tasks, you directly save time of your software development/QA team. “, added Nachiket

Urdhwareshe, SoftJin CEO.