Spec-TRACER™ is a unified requirements lifecycle management solution designed specifically for FPGAs and ASICs. Spec-TRACER facilitates requirements management, traceability, tests management, impact analysis and reporting, and seamlessly integrates with windows-based HDL design and simulation tools. Spec-TRACER helps companies streamline the requirements engineering process, optimize the development cycle, improve collaboration, and reduce risk and costs.
Requirements Capture
Automatic import from MS Word or Excel via heading styles or tags including requirements ID, name, description, tables and pictures
Direct Integration with DOORS (Import/Export Functionalities)
User-defined requirement attributes to give context to requirement characteristics, status and importance
Compare and track multiple version of requirements
Baseline requirements
Traceability
Traceability links between requirements, HDL code, test cases, testbench, log files and waveforms are established easily
Generate upstream/downstream traceability reports
Change Impact Analysis
Know the impact of requirements changes before and after they occur
Know the exact number of projects elements that will be impacted
Tests Management
Create and manage verification plans
Track and analyze test status and test results after regressions including PASS/FAIL status, Code Coverage, Expression Coverage, Assertions Coverage and SystemVerilog Functional Coverage
Automatically generate traceability from tests to log files, waveforms, coverage database and html reports
Documentation and Reporting
Review requirements, test cases and test results against a checklist and generate review activities
Generate daily, weekly or monthly reports via batch
Create complex reports to implement company standards and templates