Software makes more of programmable platforms

The Programmable Synthesis Engine is a logic optimisation and mapping software product that is customisable for a variety of programmable platform architectures.

New from Softjin, the Programmable Synthesis Engine (PSE) is a logic optimisation and mapping software product that is customisable for a variety of programmable platform architectures, such as look-up-table (LUT) or multiplexer (MUX) based configurable logic architectures.

Softjin's PSE is a customisable engine that allows its users to derive the most from the underlying architecture of a programmable platform.

It delivers better quality of results (QoR) when compared with traditional FPGA and ASIC synthesis tools.

Softjin customises each PSE to specific programmable platform architecture and for integration with placement and routing tools.

PSE will be demonstrated at the Design Automation Conference in San Francisco, at Softjin's Booth 1409.

"Programmable platform suppliers of FPGA, structured ASIC and other innovative programmable fabrics need to provide design tools to their users that are customised and optimised for their specific architectures for the best results", said Nachiket Urdhwareshe, Softjin's CEO.

"PSE allows these suppliers to provide a customised logic synthesis solution with reduced time to deployment and with better results".

PSE is licensed by programmable platform vendors for use by their customers who are FPGA, ASIC or SoC designers.

PSE can also be licensed by system-level EDA companies who would like to extend their offerings into the RTL domain.

Before PSE, emerging programmable platform vendors developed their own customised synthesis solution from scratch, which is costly, risky and highly time consuming, or licensed a standard synthesis solution, targeted to mainstream architectures, which then had to be customised to their specific offerings This latter path involves hefty licensing and customisation fees.

Softjin's PSE is the first offering in the market that provides a viable quality plus cost combination to these emerging vendors for their synthesis solution.

Also, before PSE, system-level EDA tool vendors curtailed their output to RTL output and relied on standard synthesis vendors to complete the rest of the design flow.

While this RTL handoff enabled vendor neutrality, it also caused end users to buy expensive synthesis tool licenses and led to efficiency loss in the handoff.

While keeping the vendor neutrality in play, Softjin's PSE shifts this handoff further down the design flow possibly to a placed-netlist level.

By shifting the handoff further down the design flow, there is no loss in efficiency at the RTL handoff and turn-around time is minimised by an integrated solution.

Softjin's PSE is a logic synthesis engine that is customisable for a variety of programmable platforms including LUT and mux based architectures.

PSE accepts RTL Verilog and VHDL, performs a host of technology independent and dependent optimisations followed by architecture specific mapping to generate a delay and area optimal design implementation ideally suited to the targeted programmable platform.

PSE is available for beta evaluation now and is licensed as object code to programmable platform vendors and ESL tool vendors to include and sell as part of their design tool flow.

The annual licence fee varies and depends on the underlying architecture of the programmable platform.

Softjin products are sold directly in the USA, Europe and India and through channel partners in Japan and Asia Pacific.

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