EDA Simulator Link 3.0

Using EDA Simulator Link with Simulink

The Simulink cosimulation capability lets you connect an HDL simulator to a Simulink cosimulation block. Simulink is synchronized with the HDL simulator by scaling Simulink time to HDL simulator time. You can connect a Simulink model with one or more cosimulation blocks to one or more HDL simulators.

Using Simulink and related blocksets, you can create system-level representations of signal processing, communications, and other systems. These models can be used to create software test benches for HDL implementations or substituted as algorithms in place of HDL blocks or subsystems for HDL debugging or verification.

EDA Simulator Link also supports verification tasks, including:

• Automatically scripting the HDL code compilation and simulator startup
• Using Autofill to create the cosimulation signal interface between the HDL code and Simulink model
• Maintaining System-C library compatibility through support of vendor-distributed GCC libraries

Cosimulation and software test benching of a Manchester Receiver, created using Simulink, Signal Processing Blockset™, and Communications Blockset™. The Manchester Receiver is implemented in VHDL and simulated in ModelSim®.