SynaptiCAD bridges the gap between Tektronix's Logic Analyzer/Pattern Generator and Simulation Environments
Tektronix has added support for SynaptiCAD's products to its line of logic analyzers and pattern generators.
The Tektronix TLA5000, TLA700, and TLA600 Logic Analyzers can capture waveform data in a form that can
be read by WaveFormer, VeriLogger, and TestBencher. This waveform data can then be converted into stimulus
vectors for VHDL, Verilog, SPICE, ABEL, and Pattern Generators (including the new Tektronix TLA 7PG2).
This functionality gives engineers the ability to leverage the work done during the design phase of
the product, simplifying the development of a test environment that provides good test coverage and
excellent debug capability. In the following paper we will discuss the basic advantages of combining
these products and explore easy-to-use methods for debugging hardware and software problems.
SynaptiCAD's products WaveFormer Pro, VeriLogger Pro,
and TestBencher Pro all support Tektronix's test equipment. All of these
tools have a waveform display and timing diagram editor that can export data to simulator and
pattern generator formats. They can also import data from logic analyzers and simulators. Over
43 file formats are supported. WaveFormer Pro is a timing diagram editor and interactive simulator that
is used by engineers early in the design cycle before a complete model or schematic can be conceived.
VeriLogger Pro is a Verilog simulator with a graphical stimulus generation. TestBencher Pro is system
level test bench generator that creates bus-functional models directly from timing diagrams.
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