Development method for integrated circuits, program storage medium for storing the development method for integrated circuits, and concurrent development system, development program, and development method of ASIC and programmable logic device

• US 20070083845A1
• Filed: 12/11/2006
• Published: 04/12/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/17/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Tsuda, Masayuki, Nakayama, Akitsugu, Koga, Chiaki
• Granted Patent: US 7,650,586 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 716/102
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 30/30 Circuit design

Abstract

A method for developing integrated circuits includes generating a core (logic core) in an HDL format readable by a logic synthesis tool, from an ASIC core (logic core) made of ports of blocks and port connection information, creating a temporary chip design from chip terminal information to generate a terminal in the temporary chip design, generating a design identical to that created, as a cell within the design created, connecting a design port with a cell port, wherein a name of the design port is identical to a name of the cell port, inserting an I/O buffer, depending on the device technology, into a net between the ports connected, replacing the cell by the core (logic core) created to generate a netlist, and expanding a hierarchy of the design, being the top hierarchy.

Claims

1. A concurrent development method for concurrent development of an ASIC and a programmable logic device, comprising:

grouping/creating including grouping functional blocks constituting the ASIC based on port connection information, and creating a netlist, including ports of the functional blocks grouped and the port connection information, as a logic core of the programmable logic device;

a logic synthesis data creating including creating logic synthesis data for the ASIC and logic synthesis data for the programmable logic device from circuit data of the functional blocks constituting the ASIC;

a ROM data creating including creating ROM data by inserting the logic synthesis data for the programmable logic device relating to the functional blocks grouped, into the netlist created at the grouping/creating, wherein the ROM data is used for evaluating real machines in which a circuit of the programmable logic device is recorded;

performing ASIC layout creation and timing verification concurrently with the ROM data creating, using the logic synthesis data for the ASIC created; and

a difference reflecting including reflecting a change in the circuit data during the performing, based on a result of evaluating the real machine using the ROM data created.

2. The concurrent development method for concurrent development of an ASIC and a programmable logic device according to claim 1, wherein

the performing starts any one of before the ROM data creating and concurrently with the ROM data creating, and

at the difference reflecting, the change in the circuit data made after the performing starts, is reflected during the performing.

3. The concurrent development method for concurrent development of an ASIC and a programmable logic device according to claim 1, wherein

at the ROM data creating, for a particular functional block among the functional blocks grouped, the ROM data is recorded by inserting into the netlist created at the netlist creating step, the logic synthesis data for that programmable logic device, in which a dummy circuit is inserted in an input terminal and an output terminal, wherein the logic synthesis data for the programmable logic device in the particular functional block has not yet been created.

4. A concurrent development system for concurrent development of an ASIC and a programmable logic device, comprising:

a netlist creating unit that creates a netlist, including ports of the functional blocks grouped and the port connection information, as a logic core of the programmable logic device, by grouping functional blocks constituting the ASIC based on port connection information;

a logic synthesis data creating unit that creates logic synthesis data for the ASIC and logic synthesis data for the programmable logic device from circuit data of the functional blocks constituting the ASIC;

a ROM data creating unit that creates ROM data by inserting the logic synthesis data for the programmable logic device relating to the functional blocks grouped, into the netlist created at the grouping/creating, wherein the ROM data is used for evaluating real machines in which a circuit of the programmable logic device is recorded; and

an ASIC layout creating unit that performs ASIC layout creation and timing verification concurrently with the ROM data creating, using the logic synthesis data for the ASIC created.

5. A computer program for concurrent development of an ASIC and a programmable logic device, that makes a computer execute:

grouping/creating including grouping functional blocks constituting the ASIC based on port connection information, and creating a netlist, including ports of the functional blocks grouped and the port connection information, as a logic core of the programmable logic device;

a logic synthesis data creating including creating logic synthesis data for the ASIC and logic synthesis data for the programmable logic device from circuit data of the functional blocks constituting the ASIC;

a ROM data creating including creating ROM data by inserting the logic synthesis data for the programmable logic device relating to the functional blocks grouped, into the netlist created at the grouping/creating, wherein the ROM data is used for evaluating real machines in which a circuit of the programmable logic device is recorded;

performing ASIC layout creation and timing verification concurrently with the ROM data creating, using the logic synthesis data for the ASIC created; and

a difference reflecting including reflecting a change in the circuit data during the performing, based on a result of evaluating the real machine using the ROM data created.