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Viewlogic Interface - Glossary of Terms
Altran
- A utility within Workview Office and Powerview used to retarget a schematic to a new device family.
Aurora
- The name of ViewSynthesis shipped with Workview Office version 7.4.
Digital Fusion
- Viewlogic's Integrated Simulation Environment that allows mixed schematic and HDL designs to be simulated in a single environment. Digital Fusion itegrates ViewSim, SpeedWave, and VCS in one tool.
EDIF
- Electronic Design Interchange Format. An industry-standard netlist format.
EDIFNETI
- Viewlogic's EDIF netlist reader, translates an EDIF netlist into Viewlogic WIR files.
EDIFNETO
- Viewlogic's EDIF netlist writer, translates WIR files into EDIF.
EDN
- Viewlogic's EDIF netlist format extension.
Express
- Synopsys' FPGA Express is now the synthesis tool shipped with Workview Office 7.4 and beyond. This replaces Aurora synthesis.
HDL
- Hardware Description Language. A language which describes circuits in textual code. The two most widely accepted HDLs are VHDL and Verilog.
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Intelliflow
- A design managment tool within Workview Office that controls design elements, revisions, and implementations. Intelliflow is only sold directly by Viewlogic.
LM_LICENSE_FILE
- The environment variable used by Workview Office and Powerview to locate the LICENSE.DAT file.
LogiBLOX
- Blocks of Logic Optimized for Xilinx for M1. A GUI-based tool where generic bus-width-independent symbols such as counters, adders, and data registers are used to implement architecture-optimized functions.
Powerview
- The Viewlogic toolset for workstations. The current version is 6.0 and is sold by Viewlogic only.
PROcapture
- Viewlogic's schematic editor for PROseries.
PROflow
- The design flow manager that integrates PROseries with XACTstep 6.0.x.
Project Manager
- This Workview Office tool is used to define the project location and libraries. Saving a project in the Project Manager writes a viewdraw.ini file into the project directory.
PROseries
- The Viewlogic toolset that was shipped with XACTstep 6.0.x. This is a PC-based toolset from Viewlogic that supported Windows 3.x.
PROsim
- Viewlogic's gate-level simulator for PROseries.
PROwave
- Viewlogic's waveform viewer for PROseries.
SpeedWave
- Viewlogic's VHDL simulator for Workview Office and Powerview.
VCS
- Viewlogic's Verilog simulator for Workview Office and Powerview.
Verilog
- An industry-standard HDL developed by Cadence Design Systems. Recognizable as a file with a .v extension.
VHDL
- VHSIC Hardware Description Language. An industry-standard (IEEE 1076.1) HDL. Recognizable as a file with a .vhd or .vhdl extension.
ViewDraw
- Viewlogic's schematic editor for Workview Office and Powerview.
viewdraw.ini
- The file that contains library listings and other design settings for Viewlogic schematic projects. This file is modified via PROflow within PROseries, via the Project Manager within Workview Office, and via a text editor for Powerview.
ViewGen/PROgen
- A program within the Viewlogic toolset that translates WIR files into a Viewlogic schematic.
ViewSim
- Viewlogic's gate-level simulator for Workview Office and Powerview.
ViewSynthesis
- Viewlogic's VHDL synthesis tool for Workview Office and Powerview.
ViewTrace
- Viewlogic's waveform viewer for Workview Office and Powerview.
VITAL
- VHDL Initiative Toward ASIC Libraries. A VHDL-library standard (IEEE 1076.4) that defines standard constructs for simulation modeling, accelerating and improving the performance of VHDL simulators.
VSM
- Viewsim Wirelister. Also extension of the file that the Wirelister creates. This file is read into ViewSim for simulation.
WIR files
- Viewlogic netlist files built by ViewDraw, PROcapture, or ViewSynthesis.
WIR2XNF
- The XACT 5.x/6.0.x netlist translation tool that converts Viewlogic WIR files into Xilinx XNF files.
Workview
- This is an obsolte Viewlogic toolset for PCs. It was MS-DOS based an was replaced by Windows-based tools.
Workview Office
- The Viewlogic toolset for PCs. The current version is 7.3.1. An OEM verion of this toolset will be included with the M1 software release. All versions of this software support Windows 95 and NT only, with the lone exception of version 7.1.2, which supports Windows 3.11 only.
XBLOX
- Blocks of Logic Optimized for Xilinx for XACT 5.x. A schematic-based synthesis tool where generic bus-width-independent symbols such as counters, adders, and data registers are used to implement architecture-optimized functions.
XNF
- Xilinx Netlist Format.
XNF2WIR
- The XACT 5.x/6.0.x netlist translation tool that converts a Xilinx XNF file into Viewlogic WIR files.
XSIMMAKE
- Script used to create simulation schematics and files required for certain XACTstep-Viewlogic flows.
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