Interface links HDL with OpenAccess

Verific Design Automation has developed an interface between its hardware description language (HDL) Component Software and the OpenAccess database.

Verific Design Automation has developed an interface between its hardware description language (HDL) Component Software and the OpenAccess database.

This new OpenAccess interface offers a link to Verific's HDL parser for Verilog, SystemVerilog and VHDL, offering fast netlist import, along with full register transfer level (RTL) support to the OpenAccess 2.2 database.

Says Steve Schulz, President and CEO of Si2: "This announcement is further evidence that marketplace momentum for OpenAccess continues to grow, now expanding in scope up through SystemVerilog, thanks to OpenAccess v2.2 support in Verific's commercial HDL parsers".

"This is good news for Verific and their licensees, good news for end users, and good for Si2's mission of open EDA interoperability".

"In short, it's good for business".

"Semiconductor companies are demanding OpenAccess support", remarks Verific's President Rob Dekker, who adds that Silicon Navigator became the perfect partner to help develop this interface as a company dedicated to providing EDA components around the standard.

J George Janac, Silicon Navigator's CEO, agrees: "For OpenAccess to become successful, the industry needed a high-performance path from Verilog and VHDL RTL and netlist".

"Verific provides key components needed by Open Access, and in addition supports SystemVerilog, making it even more attractive for design teams preparing for the future".

Developed for flexibility, the Verific interface can be used with Verific's native netlist data structures.

Alternatively, synthesised register transfer level (RTL) code can be stored in the OpenAccess database.

OpenAccess is a community effort to provide interoperability among integrated circuit (IC) design tools through an open standard data applications programming interface (API) and reference database.

Verific's OpenAccess interface, written in C++, follows Si2's OpenAccess API specification and database code manual.

It is available now to its licensees, and shipped free of charge with its standard HDL component software.

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