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Abstract: When it comes to debugging during emulation, engineers are forced to use multiple applications to ensure proper hardware signal data extraction and visualization. Learn from this webinar a leading edge technology that intelligently extracts data from the FPGA emulator to provide 100% signal visibility during emulation. This approach delivers up to 70% bandwidth savings in the critical emulator communication channel. Both dynamic and static probes from emulation can also be visualized in the Riviera-PRO waveform viewer preserving the original signal names and hierarchy paths and providing complete traceability to the design’s RTL source code. Play webinar   

This video will show you how to install and setup the main ALINT-PRO application as well as additional rule plug-ins. Installation of extra rulesets can be confirmed within the main tool and enabled via the policy editor. For license verification during setup, the license diagnostic tool provides ample information on the current license file and licensed modules.

Riviera-PRO™ addresses verification needs of engineers crafting tomorrow's cutting-edge FPGA and SoC devices. Riviera-PRO enables the ultimate testbench productivity, reusability, and automation by combining the high-performance simulation engine, advanced debugging capabilities at different levels of abstraction, and support for the latest Language and Verification Library Standards.

The breakpoint management tools available in Riviera-PRO make it easier to debug your design. Breakpoints are used to halt simulation when a condition or state is reached for HDL Code, C Code, Signals, Assertions, or Covers. Breakpoints should be used to create breaks in simulation at specific windows and conditions of testing. They can be helpful to identify functionality of IP or new designs. Riviera-PRO has the capability to set breakpoints and manage them within their corresponding windows.

Aliases and Slices provide the opportunity to associate signal values with strings. They can be identified using mnemonics (nickname), colors, and icons. Slices can take predefined Aliases to divide a signal into all it's separate parts. Using these differentiators can make debugging easier by making large signals easier to separate into their respective parts and can be identified with a color and nickname and icon.

Perspectives are a configured interface which are comprised of different windows and views. When working at different stages of the design flow it can be useful to have different views open, which can be switched to with use of perspectives. Favorites are used to display select tools, macros, or user-defined commands in the interface and different views that are important to have accessible.

ALINT-PRO's Flow Manager window allows managing the design analysis process in a convenient way. This video will show each step of the design flow, going through parse, elaboration, synthesis, constraints, and finally linting. At each step, more information about a project can be obtained. Additionally, each step includes various settings and configurable properties that allow for a highly customized linting process.

A Workspace is comprised of individual designs containing resources such as source files and output files with simulation results. Learn how to create a new Workspace using the New Workspace Wizard, manage an existing Workspace, and manage the different components of the Workspace.

The Design Flow Manager (DFM) is designed to automate and simplify the design, synthesis, and implementation processes. The interface takes the form of design flowcharts which show the design path in graphical form. Learn how to enable the DFM, choose third party vendor tools for synthesis and implementation, and how to perform each stage of the synthesis and implementation processes.

The HDL Editor available in Riviera-PRO gives flexibility and provides advanced features to speed up the design process and make debugging easier. It provides shortcuts and tools in every stage of designing. Templates are available to use in the HDL Editor which provides basic constructs in various HDL and gives the option to create templates from code that's already written.

Whether one chooses to develop their design in Active-HDL, Riviera-PRO, Quartus, or Vivado, ALINT-PRO can always be used to perform design rule checking via the tool's convert feature. Converting external project files into ALINT-PRO turns the source project files into the equivalent ALINT-PRO workspace and project structure. Once converted, the design is then accessible to all of the solution's linting and rule checking features.

Learn how to create and manage user libraries, and how to utilize pre-compiled FPGA vendor libraries.

The Outline Viewer available in Riviera-PRO digests VHDL code and breaks it down into it's basic components. It will format and display different components of VHDL code and enable filtering and searching for signals and design objects, making large projects easy to navigate.

ALINT-PRO's violation viewer provides a user friendly window for displaying and managing design rule violations. Coupled with automatic report generators, the tool helps not only to identify any violations within your design, but also document them so that they may be corrected and even prevented in later designs. Automatic report generators come in a number of formats, including CSV, PDF, HTML, as well as Quality Reports which provide metrics on how compliant a design is to a given rule set.

Workflow in ALINT-PRO is organized through projects that are grouped into workspaces. A project will contain the set of properties and files, those being your HDL source code and design constraints, to form a single entity that makes up part of your design. Libraries are automatically generated at the local level and correspond to projects within the workspace. Additional libraries can be added through the tool's library export and attach features.

Encryption and Secure Sharing is an important aspect for businesses that need to protect their IP against unauthorized utilization. Different levels of IP Encryption and Protection are required when modules are licensed, evaluated or transferred within departments. Riviera-PRO can deliver protected IP in two forms: encrypted source files or precompiled protected libraries.

The quality of linting results is largely dependent on one's policies and rules. Through the use of its policy editor, ALINT-PRO provides an effective means of managing and customizing those policies and rules to best fit the standards and practice of one's design team or company.

Using Tasks in your Riviera-PRO Project allows you to track and prioritize assignments inside of a project. Tasks can be assigned to different areas of your project and will help outline the order and how quickly things should be completed.

Waivers provide an excellent service in managing violations during the linting process by ignoring those violations or sources of violations that might be too pessimistic for or not applicable to one's design. ALINT-PRO's interface provides an easy process for adding and removing these waivers no matter the source. Additionally, the tool's waiver editor provides a single location where one can manage and edit an entire project's waiver list, and even export this list for future projects.

The Coverage tools available in Riviera-PRO can analyze Code Coverage, Functional Coverage and Toggle Coverage. Control the Coverage of your design using the GUI or through simple script commands. Riviera-PRO will generate HTML and Text reports detailing the Coverage Analysis of your design.