Magillem: Architecture Exploration

Marcos AV Silva

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Magillem (www.magillem.com)

Magillem Design Services is a new French company that acts in EDA tools market.

Magillem headquarters are located in Paris, with US Operations based in New YorkCity and Dallas, and distribution in India and Asia.

Expanding the vision towards a complete system design capture.

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Magillem

Magillem has established partnerships with EDA vendors, universities and top European ESL R&D consortiums.

Adopted standard: IP-XACT from the SPIRIT Consortium.

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Magillem over the years

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IP-XACT

 IP-XACT is a standard for describing and handling intellectual property (IP), created by The SPIRIT Consortium, that enables automated configuration and integration through tools.

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Goals for IP-XACT

Ensure delivery of compatible intellectual property descriptions from multiple intellectual property vendors.

Better enable importing and exporting complex intellectual property sets to, from and between Eletronic Design Automation (EDA) tools for SoC design (design environments).

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More info. about IP-XACT:

Website of the SPIRIT Consortium : www.spiritconsortium.org

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MPA: Magillem Platform Assembly

Magillem presents MPA, the center piece of a powerful intuitive Integrated Design Environment (IDE).

The user friendly interface guides the designer during platform assembly and configuration, and streamlines exploration and implementation of IP-based systems.

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Features

Analog and system platform viewer;

Version and configuration management;

Certification requirements traceability;

Verification tool kit

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Features (cont.)

Checkbox Interface to connect IP (bus, signal, split, tie);

Drag and drop IP into design;

Various EDA tools connectors;

RTL and ESL Netlisters.

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MPA FEATURES Premium Platinum

IP-XACT v1.0, v1.2, v1.4, v1.5 X X Statistic reporting X X Design Rules Checker Digital design Rules X X Analog design Rules X Support for Custom Rules X X QA Rules Support X X

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MPA FEATURES Premium Platinum

Netlister Flat VHDL/Verilog netlister X Hierarchical VHDL/Verilog netlister X SystemC netlister X VHDL-AMS netlister X Verilog -AMS netlister X SystemC-AMS netlister X

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MPA FEATURES Premium Platinum

Graphical Edition System graphical front-end editor X X Analogue graphical front-end editor X X IP browser X X Parameters view (all/filtered) X X Dynamic Hierarchy view X X Component Generator launcher X X

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MPA FEATURES Premium Platinum

EDA Tool Connectors IC and system simulation Modelsim connector (Mentor) X X Incisive connector (Cadence) X X VCS connector (Synopsys) X X ESL synthesis Catapult C connector(Mentor) X C-to-Silicon connector(Cadence) X

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MPA FEATURES Premium Platinum

IC synthesis Design Compiler connector (Synopsys) X Encounter RTL compiler (Cadence) X FPGA synthesis ISE connector (Xilinx) X X Quartus II connector (Altera) X X Sinplify connector (Synopsys) X X Precision connector (Mentor) X X

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MPA FEATURES Premium Platinum

Analog IC simulation HSpice connector (Synopsys) X Eldo connector (Mentor) X Virtuoso connector (Cadence) X

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Benefits

To the HW System architect Engineer:

Fast architecture exploration and definition

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Benefits (cont.)

To the IP provider:

Package IP in a reusable format that will guide the IP integrator through the configuration, implementation, and verification.

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Benefits (cont.)

To the IP integrator:

Heterogeneous architecture integration; Easy configurable and reusable IP library

management; Auto Generation of ESL/HDL code

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Benefits (cont.)

To the Project lead:

Synchronization of collaborative work, verification, tracking, reporting.

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Benefits (cont.)

To the verification Engineer:

Fast verification of the HW implementation of IP;

Validation plan and coverage scoring; Easy monitoring, configuration and

initialization.

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Conclusion

MAGILLEM 4.0 offers an innovative tool for IPs Import and Packaging, Design Assembly and Flow Control.

MAGILLEM’s unique solution, already chosen and used by the most prominent IP-XACT adopters worldwide, allows the users to create an IP-XACT representation from their current IP repository.

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