New development system makes FPGA design easy

Hevday Logic Ltd has released a new Logic Module with accompanying software to simplify the use of FPGA technology in prototyping and small volume applications.

The Hevday Interactive Logic software and Logic Module provides all you need to design schematic based FPGA designs which can be viewed and debugged from a TCP/IP connected PC while the circuit is running. The visibility provided by Interactive Logic provides significant advantages in understanding circuit operation and debugging your logic circuit designs.

The Interactive Logic software gives you complete control over the circuit running in the Logic Module. Clock frequencies can be selected from 10 to 100Mhz, and the circuit can be run, paused or single stepped one clock at a time. The circuit state, including data, signals and state machine states can be continuously displayed on the PC screen.

Other advantages of this system include long time scale waveform display of signals over periods of continuous operation up to 7 days, setting of breakpoints to pause on predefined conditions for debugging circuit operation and, in addition to standard timing calculations, a novel approach for determining maximum allowable clock frequency based on testing actual circuit functionality.

For more information and to download a free copy of the Interactive Logic software visit

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JeffM

People still do schematic-based FPGA designs?

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Andy Peters

Evidently. I was discussing tools on comp.arch.fpga a while back. One of the Xilinx engineers was saying that that's all he used. Though his schematics didn't sound like the ones drawn by OrCad, for example.

I like schematics for data flow and top-level diagrams, but IMO VHDL is much better for control (state machines and such). Mixing the two is possible, but I've not gone that way either.

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Keith Williams

Don't you mean one of the non-Xilinx engineers designing with Xilinx devices? I don't recall that any of the comp.arch.fpga regulars do much of anything (if at all) with schematics. There are various folks who still

*swear* that schematics are the only way to go. "Franklin" and "Lesea" are two different Austins. (Jan 2003 discussion thread)
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John_H

Perhaps, but I don't think so. I recall it was a XLNX employee. I was surprised at the time.

That's about the right time frame. "Austin" sounds right too. I'll have to do a google. Wasn't Austin Lesea a XLNX employee?

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Keith Williams

Austin Lesea is a good Xilinx applications resource. Austin Franklin (no relation to Xilinx) also frequents the newsgroup and was the one talking about the "drag and drop" schematics.

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John_H

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