A complete integrated framework for ASIC and FPGA design

Compass ASIC Synthesizer recognises through an HDL description which operators and variables can be mapped onto an X-BLOX element and creates the specification for the Xilinx X-BLOX compiler. This new technique is based upon a powerful recognition mechanism in the HDL code and allows several operators to be implemented into a single element. For example an addition into a memory variable will be implemented into a single accumulator. Such a tool now gives, in most cases, far better results than using classical optimization tools and even specific FPGA optimization tools