( ESNUG 393 Item 8 ) --------------------------------------------- [04/25/02]
Subject: ( ESNUG 386 #15 ) Veritools Has A Novas DeBussy At 1/4 The Price
> My company has been using Debussy from Novas ( http://www.novas.com ) for
> a couple of years now. The tool can trace through both RTL and gate
> netlists (we use Verilog, by the way). For gates, the tool can draw
> schematics which can be probed; nets can be expanded to show fan-in
> and/or fan-out cones. For RTL, the tool draws reasonably good schematics
> and finite state machine diagrams. The tool also has nice hooks into its
> waveform viewer. (This is not a paid advertisement, I swear!)
>
> I have heard that Undertow by Veritools offers similar capabilities, and
> it may be cheaper. ( http://www.veritools-web.com/products.htm )
>
> - Gene Sullivan
> Analog Devices, Inc.
From: Robert Schopmeyer <schop@veritools.com>
Hi, John,
Undertow Suite can do exactly what Novas does and for less than 1/4 the
cost. What a totally unnecessary and major financial burden it is to have
to purchase tools for every engineering team member that cost $25,000+,
just in order to trace signals back on your RTL or gate designs.
Undertow Suite will allow users to trace either gate or RTL schematics
backward or forward, and allow the user to expand the schematic with either
show all drivers and loads or show just the drivers and loads you are
interested in. The schematic window shows you the schematic at all
hierarchical levels instead of being limited just to a single scope. This
allows the user to see on a single schematic view, the name changes as the
signal goes into or out of each hierarchical level. A new no cost feature
of the shortly to be released Undertow 9 Suite, is the ability to view your
RTL design graphically in even lower level RTL primitives such as Muxs, FFs,
Latches, Priority Encoders and Decoders, and including the graphical display
of your completely decomposed expression trees.
Undertow Suite also comes with a wave form viewer and state diagram
viewer to use along with your source code window and schematic window.
Users can get the Undertow Suite for UNIX, Linux or the PC from
http://www.veritools-web.com and run these tools with no cost licenses
for evaluation.
- Bob Schopmeyer
Veritools, Inc.
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