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News Release from: Concept Engineering | Subject: Nlview
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 04 June 2007
Visualisation engine eases debugger
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DAFCA has used Concept Engineering's Nlview visualisation engine to build a graphical debugging cockpit for its ClearBlue Silicon Validation Platform.
DAFCA, the leading vendor of on-chip reconfigurable infrastructure and tools for in-system, at-speed silicon validation, has selected Concept Engineering's Nlview visualisation engine to build a graphical debugging cockpit for its ClearBlue Silicon Validation Platform Integrated into the DAFCA tool environment, the Nlview engine automatically generates schematic diagrams showing the instrumentation intellectual property (IP) and making it easy for design engineers to understand and configure the instrumentation infrastructure
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 7 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Concept Engineering's Nlview engine gives our software development team great reliability, flexibility and performance", says Peter L Levin, President and CEO of DAFCA.
"DAFCA prides itself on being a good neighbour on the die, and this integration will help our customers to address the post-silicon validation challenges of nano-era semiconductor product design".
DAFCA addresses the limitations of traditional post-silicon diagnosis and debug by placing compact reconfigurable instruments on the chip during the pre-silicon design phase.
These instruments provide engineers with the ability to observe, discover, and diagnose at-speed, in-silicon functional behaviour during post-silicon bring-up and evaluation.
Rather than diverting R and D resources to developing visual debugging capabilities in-house, DAFCA assessed alternatives on the market and entered into a worldwide OEM licence for Concept Engineering's Nlview visualisation engine for the wxWidgets GUI development platform.
Nlview Widgets are a family of automatic schematic generation and viewing software components (GUI building blocks) that can be easily used and customised within the most popular GUI development environments such as Tcl/Tk, Qt, Java, MFC, wxWidgets and Perl/TK.
Using Nlview Widgets, software teams can realise GUIs for electronic design automation (EDA) tools with shorter design cycles and lower development and maintenance cost.
"DAFCA offers a unique solution that reduces the time between first silicon availability and volume production".
"We are proud to have been selected to provide advanced visualisation technology for the new DAFCA Silicon Validation Platform", says Gerhard Angst, President and CEO of Concept Engineering.
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