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 Socrates provides a powerful environment to standardize, centralize and synchronize design data delivering increased quality, more design reuse, reduced schedules and enhanced inter-team communications. This results in a dramatic reduction in chip and IP integration costs. |
Socrates is a hub for chip integration, from IP port to Chip pin. It allows the capture of a standardized view of IP-level and chip-level designs, validates the data to ensure correctness and generates source views for different teams, including hardware and software views, design and verification views, ESL and implementation views. Socrates encapsulates:
- IP Packaging and Standardization: Socrates can be used to standardize the different views of an IP, including hardware and software views
- HW/SW Interface Management: Socrates enables full capture, validation and generation of a wide range of register data, enabling smoother HW/SW integration
- IP integration and Chip assembly: Socrates provides a high-level integration environment to allow rapid, robust and reusable IP integration
- I/O Layer Management: Socrates enables the auto-generation of a complete I/O layer of a SoC from a single-source specifciation, including all pin multiplexing, I/O cells, DFT insertion and die/package linkage
- Socrates also enables cost-effective development of customer-specific integration applications
Socrates Benefits
- Quality: Socrates, through the use of standardized single-source data, coherency checking and high levels of automation, significantly reduces or eliminates integration bugs
- Efficiency: Socrates, through working with higher levels of abstraction, increased levels in quality, enabling of higher levels of IP reuse and quicker turnaround times, improves efficiency by an order of magnitude
- Schedule: With increases in quality and efficiency and high levels of IP automation, integration and chip design schedules can be reduced dramatically, even for highly incremental design flows
- Predictability: Schedules can be stablized reducing the number of bugs in the design and utiliizing highly automated and scalable solutions
- Interoperability: Socrates can utilize IP-XACT enabled data, as well as providing links to verification standards such as OVM/UVM
- Deployment: Standards-based interfaces and customizable migration utilities allow legacy data to be standardized and brought into the Socrates hub. A flexible and extensible generator framework allows generated outputs to be easily aligned to existing design flow formats
- Multi-platform Developed on the Eclipse platform, Socrates has a powerful and intuitive GUI and runs on Windows, Linux and Solaris systems. Third-party Eclipse plug-ins are supported
Duolog also provides a complementary range of Professional Services including design flow consultancy and IP design, verification and integration services.
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