EDA Simulator Link

Working with EDA Simulator Link

EDA Simulator Link supports both MATLAB and Simulink environments, various user setups, and cosimulation scenarios.

MATLAB and Simulink communicate with HDL simulators via a bidirectional cosimulation interface with a client/server architecture.

Bidirectional communication between the HDL simulator (client) and MATLAB (server).

Bidirectional communication between Simulink (client) and the HDL simulator (server).

EDA Simulator Link enables interactive and batch-mode cosimulation on a single computer, across heterogeneous platforms, or across a network.

Interfacing multiple MATLAB test benches or Simulink cosimulation blocks to one or more HDL simulations. This approach supports one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, and many-to-many configurations; it also supports multiple operating systems and computing platforms.

EDA Simulator Link enables three cosimulation scenarios using supported HDL simulators. Two of these scenarios involve a design under test (DUT), which can replace or be compared with a golden reference for the algorithm in the cosimulation. This golden reference is either MATLAB code or a Simulink model. In the third scenario, standalone Simulink cosimulation blocks can be used to instantiate existing HDL implementations into a Simulink model.

Cosimulation scenario using EDA Simulator Link: replacing an algorithm golden reference with a DUT.

Cosimulation scenario using EDA Simulator Link: comparing a DUT with an algorithm golden reference.

Cosimulation scenario using EDA Simulator Link: instantiating an HDL implementation into a Simulink model.