• Embedded logic synthesis (ELS) enables parallel optimization of control and datapath logic, greatly enhancing the quality of results
• Behavior-structure-timing (BST) database enables true incremental synthesis and much faster design and verification turnaround time
• Constraint-functionality separation (CFS) enables efficient reuse across multiple applications and process technologies
• Fast hardware models (FHMs) accelerate verification and enable early hardware/software co-development

Features/Benefits

• Accepts widest-range of C/C++/SystemC coding styles and constructs, including templates, classes, user-defined types, and certain types of pointers
• Embedded Encounter® RTL Compiler delivers consistently accurate timing and area information during the entire high-level synthesis process, resulting in signoff-quality RTL for all types of designs
• BST database tracks evolution of design-data starting from C/C++/SystemC source files all the way to physical implementation, enabling direct mapping of physical design data back to RTL as well as the original C/C++/SystemC source code
• CFS keeps functionality, communication, and design constraints all independent, enabling designers to keep their source code “golden” and retarget new applications by only changing communication/design constraints
• Approximately-timed FHMs generated in SystemC simulate 80-90% as fast as the original untimed input model, enabling fast verification and early hardware-software co-development
• Interactive GUI provides a complete environment for synthesis, analysis, and debug, giving users excellent control and visibility over the high-level synthesis process