S2C Makes Major Enhancements to its TAI Player Pro
FPGA Prototype Design and Debug Software
Enables Simultaneous Multiple Altera or Xilinx FPGA Debug and Adds New Runtime
Features
San Jose, CA – March 27, 2012 – S2C announced today that it has made significant new
enhancements to its TAI Player Pro FPGA-based prototype design and debug software.
TAI
Player Pro 4.1 major enhancements enable the simultaneous multiple Altera or Xilinx FPGA debug
and the addition of new runtime features including constant measurement of voltage and current
plus the real time measurement of clock frequencies.
TAI Player Pro serves uniform front-end to Altera, Xilinx or other 3rd party FPGA synthesis, place
and route and debug software. With TAI Player Pro, the user designs and debugs the
FPGA-based prototype in a common environment and can seamlessly move between the
underlying Altera, Xilinx or 3rd party tools. More details can be found on the S2C website.
Mon-Ren Chene, S2C’s Chairman and CTO said: “our vision when we founded S2C was to provide
a complete FPGA prototyping environment including both hardware and software in order to create
an efficient and productive FPGA-based prototyping design and debug environment. We
continue to evolve TAI Player Pro in response to customer feedback and our applications
engineering experience.”
Multiple FPGA Debug
One of the limitations of commercial FPGA debug tools is that they can only debug results from .a
single FPGA.
This is very inconvenient with larger designs that often require multiple FPGAs.
TAI Player Pro 4.1, in conjunction with S2C’s Verification Module Technology (patent pending),
now supports the simultaneous debug of up to 4 Altera or Xilinx FPGAs.
One of the unique
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features of this capability is that the original RTL names are preserved, removing the confusion of
machine generated signal names.
New TAI Player Pro Runtime Features
The full TAI Player Pro software suite is sold on an annual subscription basis. The TAI Player Pro
Runtime suite is supplied for free with the purchase of every TAI Logic Module. New capabilities
have been added to this free suite with the release of TAI Player Pro 4.1. These new features
include:
1. Assign I/O in the GUI - Instead of going through datasheets and manually creating I/O
assignment files for the FPGAs, TAI Player Pro runtime software now includes S2C’s
popular FPGA I/O assignment tool.
2. Monitor Voltages and Currents - TAI Player Pro runtime now can access to several key
voltage and current levels on TAI Logic Module.
Although the TAI Logic Modules are
designed to automatically shut down the power when there is an event of over-voltage,
over-current; the user will find this tool helpful to understand what may be the cause before
such power shut down occurs.
3. Measure On-Board Clock Frequencies - TAI Player Pro sets up the on-board clock
measurement hardware to measure the TAI Logic Module global clock frequencies with
just a few mouse clicks.
The tool can quickly validate if the clock sources are set correctly
and eliminates the possibilities that the design may not be working correctly due to clock
sources.
Availability
TAI Player Pro 4.1 is available today.
About S2C
Founded and headquartered in San Jose, California, S2C has been successfully delivering rapid
SoC prototyping solutions since 2003. S2C provides:
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Rapid FPGA-based SoC prototyping hardware and automation software
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Prototype Ready™ IP, Platforms, and Accessories
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System-level design verification and acceleration
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S2C's value is our singular focus on SoC/ASIC development. Our highly qualified engineering
team and customer-focused sales force understands our customers’ SoC development needs.
S2C’s unique FPGA-based solution, using our patented TAI IP technology, enables designers to
quickly assemble FPGA-based SoC prototypes on S2C FPGA boards. This gives customers an
early start on software development, typically the long pole item in development schedules.
Combining rapid prototyping methodologies with a comprehensive portfolio of Prototype Ready IP
and advanced verification and acceleration solutions, S2C solutions greatly reduces the SoC
design cycle.
In addition to the headquarters in San Jose, CA, S2C currently has 4 direct offices located in
Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen China and HsinChu, Taiwan. S2C is also the organizer of the annual
SoCIP conference and exhibition in China, which brings SoC designers from the Asia-Pacific
region together with international silicon IP and SoC solution vendors. For more information, visit
www.s2cinc.com.
Contacts for S2C
Steve Pollock, S2C, USA, Phone: +1 408 600-0547 Email: [email protected]
Michel Cao, S2C, China, Phone: +86 21 6887 9287 Email: [email protected]
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