EDA Simulator Link™ IN (for Cadence® Incisive®) 2.2

Product Description

• Introduction and Key Features
• Working with EDA Simulator Link™ IN
• Typical Applications
• Using EDA Simulator Link™ IN with MATLAB®
• Using EDA Simulator Link™ IN with Simulink®

Introduction

EDA Simulator Link™ IN is a cosimulation interface that integrates MATLAB® and Simulink® into the hardware design flow for the development of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) and field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). It provides a bidirectional link between MATLAB and Simulink and Incisive® simulators (from Cadence Design Systems). EDA Simulator Link IN software enables you to verify your HDL design from within MATLAB and Simulink. It provides native cosimulation support for both VHDL® and Verilog®.

Key Features

• Full VHDL® and Verilog® support
• Connection of a Simulink® model to one or more Incisive® simulators
• MATLAB® test bench capability, enabling the use of MATLAB code to stimulate HDL code and check its response
• MATLAB component capability, enabling simulation of MATLAB code in place of entities not yet coded in HDL
• User-selectable communication modes between MATLAB and Simulink and Incisive simulators, providing shared memory (for faster performance) and TCP/IP sockets (for versatility)
• Interactive or batch mode cosimulation, debugging, testing, and verification of HDL code from MATLAB

Elaboration of a floating-point reference algorithm and verification of a Verilog® implementation using a cosimulation interface. Click on image to see enlarged view.