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Xilinx Alliance Series - Product Details


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Products/Services

The Xilinx Cadence Alliance Series solution includes products and services provided by both Cadence and Xilinx.

Front-end design entry tools such as the Concept schematic editor and the Synergy HDL synthesizer are offered by Cadence. The interface netlister (i.e. concept2xil) is available from Cadence and can be downloaded from Cadence's FTP site:

http://ftp.cadence.com/patches/97A/pic/ (xilM1Netlist97.01-...)

Xilinx provides the Unified Concept and Verilog libraries necessary for schematic entry and Verilog simulation. To complete the FPGA/CPLD design flow, designers would need the Alliance Series solution for design implementation, i.e. to place and route design.

To learn more about the Cadence Alliance Series product lines, select one of the topics below:

Cadence Product Matrix (offered by Cadence)

Xilinx Alliance Product Matrix (offered by Xilinx)

Xilinx Cadence Alliance Series Product Features

The main services provided in the Xilinx Cadence Alliance Series include technical and customer support from both companies. Cadence is responsible for the front-end design entry portion while Xilinx provides assistance with the the interface and device implementation phases of a FPGA/CPLD design flow.

Cadence and Xilinx Contacts

Benefits of Xilinx Cadence Alliance Series

Industry standard interface netlisting - EDIF 2 0 0
Functional and timing simulation in Verilog
LogiBLOX integration
Board-level simulation support from xil2cds (available in Alliance Series 1.4)

See the "Technical Information" section for further Alliance Series 1.4 features for Cadence.

Platforms Supported

Sun Solaris
HP 10.20
Windows/NT

Cadence: FPGA/CPLD Product Matrix

*Schematic Entry*	Version	Next Release	Comments
Concept	97A (04/97)	PE13 (2/98)	More widely used by FPGA/CPLD customers, compared to Composer First NT support released in 9/22/97 (97AW) for ASIC users
*Composer	97A (04/97)	PE13 (2/98)	*Support discontinued in Alliance Series 1.3 release; very few users
*HDL Entry*
*Synergy	97A (04/97)	n/a	Discontinued. Transitioning customers to Synplcity's Synplify.
*HDL Simulation*
Verilog-XL NC Verilog	IC4.42 (1/98)		Verilog simulator widely used by Xilinx customers; typical flow includes front-end Synergy for HDL synthesis and FPGA optimizer
Leapfrog	IC4.42 (1/98)		VHDL simulator

Xilinx: Cadence Alliance Series Product Matrix

*Release*	Xilinx	Comments
Alliance Series 1.3 8/1/97	Alliance Base: DS-ALI-BAS-PC/WS	Device Support: 7K, 9K, up to XC4008
Alliance Series 1.3 8/1/97	Alliance Standard: DS-ALI-STD-PC/WS	4KE/EX/XL, 7K, 9K
Alliance Series 1.4 1/98	Alliance Base: DS-ALI-BAS-PC/WS	Device Support: XC9500; up to XC4010E/X; Spartan; XC3x00A/L; up to XC5210
Alliance Series 1.4 1/98	Alliance Standard: DS-ALI-STD-PC/WS	Device Support: XC9500; XC4000E/X; Spartan; XC3x00A/L; XC5200

* indicates obsolete products