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:
- Can we model an HDL system using a higher level language?
- 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