SyAD^® Characteristics

• SyAD^® (Product Folder) ( ^0.2MByte )
• FPGA-Based HW Simulator with SyAD^® (Application Note) ( ^1.28MByte )
• Online demonstrations are available here
• SyAD^® Light is a limited capacity version (for SystemC only) of SyAD which is provided for free (more here  ...)

• Preview SyAD^® Modelica Integration presentation is available here
  

General Description

Most of the popular simulators from commercial EDA vendors can be used within this system. Furthermore, the SyAD^® environment provides on demand a comprehensive IP library of simulation models for the most common hardware description languages.

The Simulation Framework Generator SFG – the core module of SyAD^® – generates automatically all required simulation sources, simulator interfaces, configurations, control scripts and prepares all captured simulation results. The SFG’s control service selects the proper simulator instances and deducts a parallel and distributed co-simulation.

SyAD^® is designed as a distributed client-server application including open interfaces to the most established design systems and simulators. Due to the client-server application multiple connections to the simulations are guaranteed. The platform independent user interface communicates via a secure https protocol with the core applications of SyAD^® ’s framework.

Application areas

• Hierarchical system development for multidomain applications
• Virtual prototyping and test engineering
• System verification using behavioral modeling
• HW/SW co-simulation e.g.:
• FBGA based co-simulation for RFID Systems
• μC based co-simulation for automotive power management in hybrid vehicles

Starting from a homogeneous top level description of an entire system with e.g. Matlab/Simulink SyAD^® allows individual transfer of its components and subsystems to analog/digital/mixed hardware descriptions in e.g. VHDL(-AMS), Verilog(-AMS), MAST and SystemC either by mapping with corresponding library elements or by a fully automated transfer.