IPalette provides flexibility in the way users create their blocks. A top-down approach allows users to automatically generate structured HDL code from the block diagrams. Users can then add in the internal code description using the textHDL HDL code editor.

A bottom-up approach will have users implementing the block diagrams into their system-level components and "bind" them to the HDL or to the flowdiagram models of the state machine and data-path behavior created in Nimbus.

Features

• "choose & place" method for hierarchical block diagram creation
• HDL editing
• Checking for connectivity, signal types, and other conditions
• Structural HDL translation
• Binding of HDL or flowdiagrams to blocks' behavior models
• Available for Solaris and Linux platforms
• Integration to Nimbus cycle-based simulation engine for system-level simulation from block level description
• Integration with major synthesis and simulation tool sets

Benefits

• Produce a well structured and easy to modify designs
• Easy to visualize the large complex system in hierarchical structure
• Create correctly structured and connected design with less error
• Designs are easy to maintain and reuse
• Design descriptions are easy to re-partition at a higher level of abstraction