EDA ACCESS Partner Profiles: DAFCA
Overview
DAFCA is an EDA company focused on semiconductor device validation. Our ClearBlue platform provides on-chip, at-speed, in-system observation and control with a compact set of user-defined reconfigurable instruments, seamlessly inserted at RTL. DAFCA users extend, for the first time, verification methods into silicon. DAFCA’s tools allow design teams to seamlessly incorporate patented, compact, and silicon-proven reconfigurable instrumentation intellectual property (IP) into their devices, pre-silicon, in order to observe, discover, and diagnose at-speed, in-silicon functional behavior. ClearBlue is compatible by design with all major EDA tool flows.
Tools
Table 1 lists design tools supporting Altera® devices.
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Table 1. Design Tools Supporting Altera Devices
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Design Flow
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Tool Name
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Comments
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Verification
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Instrumentation
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ClearBlue Instrumentation Studio
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ClearBlue Instrumentation Studio is a powerful, easy to use, pre-silicon environment for insertion of reconfigurable instruments directly into RTL, supporting both Verilog and VHDL designs |
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Validation
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ClearBlue Silicon Validation Studio |
The ClearBlue Silicon Validation Studio offers a wide spectrum of in-system, at-speed analysis capabilities, including logic analyzers, event-based validation and assertion-based debug, and performance monitoring. |
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Evaluation
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ClearBlue SVStudio Evaluation Kit
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The ClearBlue SVStudio Evaluation Kit includes a full user’s manual and reference documentation and is designed to accelerate customer evaluation without a DAFCA-trained applications engineer. It includes a basic circuit that can be exercised both in simulation and on an Altera FPGA demonstrating the power of the silicon validation tool.
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Additional Services and Features
- Instrumentation plan development
- Insertion and verification support
- Custom instrumentation development
- Post-silicon validation and debug support
Contact Information
For additional information, contact DAFCA at:
DAFCA Inc.
10 Speen Street
Framingham, MA
Tel: 774-204-0020
Fax: 508-875-9422
E-mail: marketing@dafca.com
URL: www.dafca.com
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