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- From: garo@ani.viewlogic.com (Garo Toomajanian)
- Subject: Re: What is PowerView ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.220658.11701@viewlogic.com>
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- Organization: Viewlogic Systems, Inc.
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:06:58 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.132643.868@uoft02.utoledo.edu>, mohan@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (---Mohan Pakkurti---) writes:
- |> Hello,
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- |> Can some one tell me what "Powerview" software is?
- |>
- |> Thanks. :)
- |> Mohan
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- from a press release...
-
- Powerview(TM) Provides Engineers With an Open Design Environment
- that Simplifies Integration of Tools from Multiple Sources
-
- MARLBORO, MA, May 4, 1992 - Viewlogic Systems, Inc. (NASD-VIEW) today
- announced PowerviewTM, a family of high-performance, UNIX-based design
- automation tools and a modular framework. Powerview enables electrical
- engineers, for the first time, to mix and match tools from multiple sources
- easily, so they can design complex electronic components more quickly and
- cost-effectively.
- Viewlogic's Powerview is the first commercial offering based on the
- proposed electronic design automation (EDA) standards being developed by the
- CAD Framework Initiative (CFI). CFI is an industry body comprised of prominent
- EDA users and vendors, including Viewlogic, working to standardize critical
- aspects of design automation technology. Powerview also incorporates
- industry-standard user interfaces, such as OpenLookTM and MotifTM, and supports
- VHDL, EDIF and other industry standards. The adherence to these standards and
- Viewlogic's commitment to providing an open design environment makes Powerview
- the most open and flexible design environment on the market.
- "With the announcement of Powerview, Viewlogic is delivering what
- engineers have wanted for years - the ability to integrate multiple vendors'
- and their own tools into a unified design environment, while precisely meeting
- their design engineering needs," said Gene Robinson, Viewlogic's Senior Vice
- President of Sales and Marketing. "Design engineers are tired of having to
- choose between tools that offer the best performance for a particular task,
- and tools that work well together. Now they can have both."
- The benefits of Powerview can be measured in many ways from its UNIX
- optimized architecture to the blazing speed of Viewsim/XLTM, the new compiled
- code simulator. For use on UNIX workstations, Powerview includes
- high-performance tools for design entry, simulation and verification,
- synthesis and targeting, and layout integration.
- Powerview offers unrivaled flexibility for design entry, allowing electronic
- designers to choose the forms of entry that most closely fit the task.
- Designs may be entered via VHDL, ABEL, truth tables, state diagrams and
- designers to choose the forms of entry that most closely fit the task.
- Designs may be entered via VHDL, ABEL, truth tables, state diagrams and
- tables, and functional block diagrams, in addition to schematics. Designs can
- also be entered through the waveform editor and the new graphical VHDL entry
- tool called Envision VHDLTM. Whether designing at the behavioral, structural
- or gate level, Powerview provides the optimum design entry environment for
- system, ASIC, IC, FPGA, PLD, analog and mixed signal design.
-
- Powerview's simulation environment, Viewsim, combines VHDL simulation and
- debugging with mixed analog and digital simulation of complex components and
- systems. Analog and mixed signal capabilities are added through Viewlogic's
- extensive integration of industry standard Spice simulators. Viewsim/XL has
- increased the simulation performance by a minimum of 10X and as much as 100X
- in some instances.
-
- Powerview's synthesis package, ViewsynthesisTM, provides VHDL logic synthesis
- that is seamlessly integrated into the design and simulation process.
- Viewlogic provides a full range of products for top-down and bottom-up design
- methodologies, or the combination of both, that take advantage of the power of
- VHDL. In addition, Powerview includes tools such as ViewPLDTM and
- ViewretargeterTM. Both tools address the need to preserve existing design
- investments and shorten time to market by reusing existing designs and
- migrating them to new technologies.
-
- Powerview's extension language, ViewscriptTM, is what puts the ultimate
- control of the design environment into the hands of the design engineer.
- Viewscript is the same tool Viewlogic's own engineers use to create
- applications. Viewscript allows the design engineer to easily configure
- design environments or integrate third party and proprietary tools into the
- Powerview framework.
-
- "Viewlogic has always focused on the design engineering phase of the
- product development process," Robinson noted. "We understand the need for,
- and the challenges of, integration better than any EDA vendor, because
- Viewlogic's tools have always had to be integrated with our customers'
- physical
- layout and CAD systems. So the concept of 'open systems' isn't new to us -
- it's our heritage, it's our culture."
-
- Standards-Based Framework Protects Investment, Accommodates New Technologies
- Sooner
-
- The Powerview framework is designed to provide design engineers with
- the most flexible and open design environment in the industry. Based on
- proposed CFI guidelines, Viewlogic's framework provides the electronic design
- engineer with the ability, through its extension language, Viewscript, to
- customize the design environment to meet the requirements of third party and
- proprietary tools.
- All Powerview tools run on UNIX-based Sparcstations from Sun
- Microsystems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Company, Digital Equipment Corporation,
- and IBM and are data compatible with Viewlogic's Workview tools for
- MS-DOS-based computing platforms.
-
- Pricing and Availability
- Powerview will be available in June of 1992. Pricing will range from
- $26,500 to $70,000, depending upon tool configuration.
- Founded in 1984, Viewlogic Systems, Inc. is a worldwide supplier of
- electronic design automation solutions. Viewlogic's software for UNIX- and
- DOS-based computing platforms, combined with its broad range of support
- services, enables electrical engineers to design state-of-the-art electronic
- products more efficiently, reducing development cost and speeding time to
- market.
-