Overview

Design Explorer (DE) is a tool to assist in the design phase of an HDL design. It will

Design Explorer is an attempt to answer these questions:

  1. Can we model an HDL system using a higher level language?
  2. Can we then leverage the model to make portions of the design effort easier?

Features

  • Quick design changes
  • visualize different aspects of the design
  • Automatically create design heirarchy files
  • Route signals between HDL components
  • Route signals through hierarchy
  • Generate graphs at different hierarchy levels

Objectives

  • Make large systems easier to understand
  • Leverage information to reduce workload
  • Minimize impacts of design changes
  • Block diagrams always up to date