2.2 Capture: Capturing FPGA Requirements within Spec-TRACER without Word Documents Spec-TRACER provides a state-of-the-art GUI where requirements are authored, managed and tracked from within the tool environment. Attributes, text, tables, pictures, OLE objects, bullets are all imported accurately. This eliminates the management of external files such as MS Word and Excel. Requirement s documents in WORD format can be exported from Spec-TRACER for reporting purposes.