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Why use a graphical entry tool ?
Using a graphical design tool gives you the following benefits and features:
Benefits:
- Makes large designs manageable
- Facilitates effective design re-use
- Easy navigation
- Reduce time needed for the Compile/Edit/Debug cycle using hot error links
- Block and State Machine diagrams provide excellent design documentation
Features:
- Browser
- Quickly navigate through your design
- Quickly explore different design implementations
- Multi user and versioning support using industry standard tools
- ClearCase
- CVS
- RCS
- Subversion
- Editors
- Block Diagram editor
- Signal tracing and highlighting
- Propagate changes through the hierarchy
- State Diagram editor
- User configurable code generation
- Truth Table editor
- Powerful way to describe combinational logic
- Language sensitive text editor
- HDL
- Syntax checking using fully compliant Verilog and VHDL parsers
- Integrated linter to check for potential problems in syntactically correct HDL code.
- Mixed language support
- Generation of highly readable HDL code from Block and State Machine diagrams
- Optimized HDL code for synthesis
- Design Flow
- Interfaces to all major simulation and synthesis tools
- Tcl driven backend
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