Prototyping in a FLASH!
Aldec® and Actel® have joined together to deliver innovation and simplicity with the offering of an industry leading flash based prototyping solution which allows on-the-fly design re-programmability. This solution consists of an Aldec hardware adaptor, footprint compatible with the Actel RTAX-S/SL, AX and RTSX-SU/SX-A product family, that uses the re-programmable ProASIC®3E series chip. In addition, a GUI based
EDIF Netlist Converter is offered for automatic pin re-mapping from anti-fuse to flash based architecture.
Top Features
- Allows cost effective Actel RTAX-S/SL, AX and RTSX-SU/SX-A prototyping
- Flash based re-programmability
- Footprint compatible with RTAX-S/SL and AX CQ208, CQ256, CQ352 (Commercial and Industrial), CG624 (Commercial and Industrial)
- Footprint compatible with RTSX-SU/SX-A CQ208, CQ256
- Support for RTAX4000S-CQ352
- Automatic device EDIF netlist conversion
- Automatic memory conversion
- Automatic Physical Design Constraint (PDC) file conversion
The
RTAX EDIF Netlist Converter performs automatic conversion of the RTAX-S/SL EDIF netlist to a ProASIC3E netlist, which means replacement of the primitives has to be done, with consideration of the limitations (differences between RTAX-S/SL anti-fuse and ProASIC3/E flash-based technologies). A pin remapping utility allows automatic Physical Design Constraint (PDC) file conversion which eliminates the need for additional and time consuming manual work.