Platform-Based Design
Platform-based design is an IP Reuse strategy that facilitates the creation and verification of designs containing sophisticated IP from many different sources. Platform-based design provides rapid creation and verification of SoC designs by automating complex, tedious, and error-prone design creation, IP integration, and verification steps. By automating the non-differentiated design, design resources can devote their time to value-added design.
Mentor Graphics played a pioneering role in developing the IP-XACT specification provided by The SPIRIT Consortium by donating the base schema for the spec. Platform Express was the first platform-based design solution to support the IP-XACT specification.
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Highlights
- Platform Express lets SoC designers move quickly through the processor-centric portions of design. As the designer creates a platform-based SoC from the available components, Platform Express assembles the hardware and the software environment for design verification.
- Platform Express provides a flexible, open environment that is geared for developers of platforms, other IP and tools, giving SoC designers a breadth of choices of design content and verification tools.
- Platform Express allows embedded SoC subsystems to create and verify in minutes. For the very first time, designers can exploit the full potential of Platform Based Design.
Products
Platform Express Professional is an add-on to Platform Express Client,
giving designers new tools to create sophisticated SoC designs in minutes
using XML IP databooks.
Platform Express Integrator's Kit enables IP creators to deploy their reusable
IP to every Platform Express designer.
Platform Express Client enables the rapid creation, configuration and
verification of sophisticated platform-based SoC designs.