• EDA Products for Programmable Platforms Overview
• Programmable Synthesis Engine
• Static Timing Analysis Engine
• Routing Engine
• Automated Test and Regression Environment

Programmable Synthesis Engine (PSE)

SoftJin’s Programmable Synthesis Engine (PSE) is a Logic Synthesis engine that is customizable for a variety of programmable platfrom architectures, such as Look-up Table (LUT) and other configurable logic architectures.

SoftJin's PSE is a core EDA component that can be used by vendors of Programmable Platforms such as FPGAs, Structured ASIC and other innovative programmable fabrics to offer a customized Logic Design Tool to their users. SoftJin customizes PSE to specific programmable platform architecture and for integration with placement and routing tools. Easy customizability of PSE's underlying Optimization, Module Generation and Technology Mapping components enables Programmable Platform vendors to offer a Logic Synthesis Solution that derives the best out of the underlying architecture and deliver much improved QoR (Quality of Results) as compared to superficially customized versions of standard off-the-shelf FPGA/ASIC Synthesis tools.

PSE can also be licensed by System-level EDA companies who would like to extend their offerings into the RTL domain. For example, for Behavioral synthesis tool vendors, that are targeting programmable platforms such as FPGAs, rather than stopping at RTL output, integrating PSE into their solution offers a platform neutral approach all the way to Netlist.

PSE accepts RTL HDL, performs a host of technology independent and technology dependent optimizations. It then performs an architecture specific mapping to generate a delay and area optimal implementation of the design for the targeted programmable platform.

• Optimized Logic Synthesis Solution - PSE based Logic Synthesis Solution takes full advantage of specific data-path elements, custom IP blocks and random logic available in your target architectures. This enables you to provide better QoR to your users as compared to standard ASIC/FPGA Logic Synthesis tools.PSE's technology delivers value by offering highly optimized logic synthesis solutions for custom architectural elements.
• Lower cost of ownership – A combination of PSE licensing and customization offers much lesser cost of ownership as compared to developing such a solution in-house or licensing it from standard off-the-shelf EDA vendor. This allows you to offer an affordable yet efficient Synthesis tool to your users.
• Host of in-built optimizations and support for high level primitives – PSE has a host of built-in high level and technology independent optimizations. Also, PSE’s module generator recognizes and maps a variety and growing list of higher level primitives such as arithmatic operators to the available datapath element of the architecture.

• Inferencing -PSE analyzes input description in detail to identify the circuit compnents so that the mapping can done most effectively. The basic components it identifies includes Combinational circuit, Sequential components, Memories – RAMs/ROMs, Finite State Machines, I/Os and Arithmetic Functional Units like Adder, Multiplier etc.
• Technology Independent Optimizations -PSE has a host of Technology Independent optimizations at the RTL and the combinational logic level to reduce the design size and improve design performance.
• Technology Mapping -PSE’s technology mapper implements the optimized abstract logic and the abstract sequential elements present in the input onto target technology in an efficient manner such that the resources on the target device are effectively used in conjunction with minimum delay. Within the overall constraint of optimizing the solution for minimum delay by driving the Mapper in a timing-driven mode, it optimizes the design for minimum area. PSE can be integrated with SoftJin’s Static Timing Analysis Engine to offer a Timing driven Synthesis Solution.
• Architecture Specific Module Generator -PSE’s module generator recognizes and maps a variety and growing list of higher level primitives such as arithmatic operators to the available datapath elements of the architecture such as Addition/ subtraction, Multiplication/ Division, Compare, Shift, Rotate, Decoder, MUX.
• PSE Customization and Integration Services -PSE has been regression tested on thousands of designs. For verification purposes, it is also integrated with various Functional Verification tools including Formal Verification tools. Along with PSE, SoftJin offers PSE's customization and integration services, whereby SoftJin takes the responsibility of customizing PSE for programmable platform vendor's architecture and integrating PSE with the other tools in the design flow.