This week Sonics released its SNAP™ product (Sonics’ Network for AMBA Protocol) for general availability! That means that you can go download it and take it for a test drive… Now! Free of charge!
Sonics' SNAP Cature Tool - GUI Screenshot
SNAP is Sonics’ brand new, client-based solution for designing on-chip buses for any complex SoC. With SNAP, you can capture, test, and analyze your designs quickly and easily. Earlier this year, we announced SNAP as a cost-effective, turn-key solution for SoC designers. Now it’s available for everyone! SNAP’s unique IP delivery system allows you to quickly and easily download the SNAP design capture tool from the Sonics Website, install and go. No need to worry about complicated licenses and key files inherent in other conventional tools. SNAP allows you to explore various chip bus architectures via an intuitive GUI, delivering valuable insight into performance, gate count and power early in the design stage—while seamlessly creating a rapid and reliable SoC design environment.
SNAP helps to simplify on-chip bus design for complex embedded SoCs by turning multilayer bus designs into an IP block. The product is well-suited for embedded wireless, home networking and automotive applications, including 3G/4G baseband and WiMAX baseband, gateways and wireless routers, and automotive control and telematics. As a complete platform solution, SNAP lowers development costs by reducing engineering costs for multi-layer designs. For example, all arbitration, clocks, data width and protocol conversions are done automatically.
So, how do you know if SNAP is right for you? Are you experiencing any of the following?
- You have an increasing number of cores with new and legacy interfaces
- You’re reaching the limits of AHB bus performance
- You’re using an ever increasing amount of engineering resources due to the shortcomings of your existing bus design tools and methodology
- You’re evolving designs to incorporate faster processors like ARM (AXI) or MIPS (OCP)
- You’re re-architecting a design to optimize for low power
- You’re hitting the memory bottleneck with your current solution
If so, then SNAP may be just what you’re looking for: A simple to use, low-cost alternative to your current SoC design tools and methodology.
SNAP - Sonics Network for AMBA Protocol - Download Now!
Go to http://www.sonicsinc.com/snap.htm and download your free copy today. We’d love to hear your thoughts. And make sure to stay tuned for upcoming customer and partner feedback and how these companies are simplifying their on-chip bus designs with SNAP.
Stephen Tomasello at Sonics, Inc.
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