IDS-IntegrateTM
Automated Chip Assembly from Specification

Manually hooking up hundreds or thousands of blocks into a top-level SoC design is a tedious and error-prone process. Many similarly named signals must be connected, with typographical errors certain to occur. The step-and-repeat hookup of repeated instantiations of the same block is especially tedious. Detecting interconnection errors occurs rather late in the project, only when full-chip simulation is ready. Runs are slow and memory intensive at this level, and debug is challenging given the enormous size of the design.
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Automatically Maintain Interconnect Integrity as Specification Changes

Agnisys has a solution to apply specification automation to SoC-level assembly and interconnection. IDS-Integrate provides a flexible and customizable environment to meet the design requirements for your complete chip.

How IDS-Integrate Enhances Your Development Process

IDS-Integrate not only interconnects blocks, but it also generates RTL components such as bus multiplexers, aggregators, bridges (AHB to APB, AXI to APB, and AXI4-Full to AHB-Full), and other “plumbing” components as needed. As expected, IDS-Integrate fully comprehends the register RTL designs generated by IDesignSpec GDI and the IP blocks generated by IDS-IPGen.

You are not limited to designs generated by Agnisys. IDS-Integrate can handle any third-party IP block with an IP-XACT description and can even handle your custom design blocks. You can specify in Tcl or Python how your blocks should be interconnected, including rules for intelligent name-mapping between block input and output ports with identical or similar names. IDS-Integrate assembles the complete top-level SoC based on your specification.

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Actions that you can perform with IDS-Integrate include:

    • Connecting an IDS-generated block with the your design block and creating a wrapper around it
    • Reading an IP-XACT component and connecting with the existing blocks
    • Connecting an AHB bus with an APB slave by automatically instantiating a bridge
    • Connecting several AHB blocks to an AHB master by automatically instantiating an aggregator
    • Moving a block from inside a deep hierarchy several levels higher
    • Generating SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) for connectivity checks using formal verification

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Benefits of IDS-Integrate

IDS-Integrate provides an automated, repeatable process that saves time and creates “correct-by-construction” SoC designs. It improves productivity of your design team by:

  • Eliminating manual coding errors when interconnecting RTL blocks
  • Helping users check their specifications
  • Providing an intuitive graphical view of blocks and their connectivity with simple navigation through the chip hierarchy
  • Saving time and resources throughout your project
  • Re-generating the top-level design at the push of a button every time a specification change

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