I/O Fabric Management
Modern SoC devices typically support multiple static and dynamic operating modes. This can result in thousands of top-level signals that need to be mapped to hundreds of I/O pins according to the target application. Socrates Spinner manages this increasingly complex area by specifying and auto-generating all of the logic associated with the chip I/O layer.
Your Solution
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Socrates Spinner is an award-winning tool that specifies the complete I/O layer, auto-generates multiple design views and enables seamless integration of the I/O fabric with the rest of the system.
Spinner simplifies and automates the specification and verification of the I/O subsystem, slashing development schedules, enhancing inter-team communications and virtually eliminating the risk of I/O bugs.
Spinner Features
- Provides a complete I/O solution in a single-source specification
- Support for standard formats including IP-XACT, Excel and VHDL / Verilog, in addition to customizable importer technology for customer-specific or legacy formats
- Complete I/O data model and comprehensive checks to guarantee data coherency
- Data model extension via user-defined properties to support customer-specific data and constructs
- Complex I/O cell control including user-defined logic equations
- Automatic insertion of test and power isolation logic
- Full support for boundary scan cell definition, insertion and interconnection
- Support for digital and analog I/O
- Suite of I/O-related output view generators including RTL, documentation, IP-XACT and self-check testbench
- Supports customization of standard generators or creation of customer-specific generators
- Effective color-coded visualization of multiplexing schemes plus die and package views
- Eclipse-based product supporting a powerful and intuitive GUI and command-line operation; runs on Windows or Linux platforms
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Spinner Benefits
Socrates Spinner Chip Pins
- Reduced development costs through automation of time-consuming, tedious and error-prone tasks
- Elimination of I/O bugs with rigorous coherency checks and self checking testbench
- Immediate turn-around-time for late I/O changes and management of iterative design flow
- Cost-effective commercial replacement for legacy in-house solutions
- Efficient reuse of information and accelerated derivative development
- Guaranteed quality of design views due to correct-by-construction methodology
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Training
Duolog Support and worldwide channel partners offer a range of training courses featuring our Socrates tool suite. The training is provided at multiple worldwide centers and also offered at customer sites.
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