Chipx Incorporated

Elie H Massabki

Lior Amarilio

Jay Sherman Hidy

A method, computer readable medium apparatus and system for developing an Application-Specific Integrated Circuit ('ASIC') are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes defining the functionality of a target ASIC device within a target system, as well as synthesizing circuits for the target ASIC device and a programmable logic device concurrently or nearly concurrently, thereby providing a conversion-less ASIC development flow using one or more programmable devices. In a specific embodiment, the conversion-less ASIC development flow requires no subsequent step of modifying a functional description for the target ASIC device from a functional description expressed in terms of the programmable logic device, thereby reducing an amount of time required to produce the target ASIC device.

Method of developing application-specific integrated circuit devices

An in-circuit design and verification device, system and method are disclosed for cooperatively designing and verifying application-specific integrated circuit device prior to fabrication by emulating logical and specialized functions. By emulating specialized circuits of the ASIC, an in-circuit design and verification-device can advantageously detect errors that are not generally detectable by conventional techniques for verifying ASIC designs. In one embodiment, an in-circuit design and verification system includes programmable logic configured to emulate on-chip logic of an ASIC as well as a specialized function circuit configured to emulate a specialized function that the programmable logic cannot emulate. The in-circuit design and verification system also includes an emulation interface configured to exchange signals between the configured programmable logic and the specialized function circuit during in-circuit design and verification. The configured programmable logic and the specialized function circuit thus cooperate to emulate the ASIC.

In-circuit device, system and method to parallelize design and verification of application-specific integrated circuits ('ASICs') having embedded specialized function circuits

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