Abstract: Design synchronization for a High-Level Modeling System (“HLMS”) of an integrated circuit device (“IC”) is described. In a method for generating a netlist, a description of a first circuit block of a user design is input to a programmed computer system programmed with a computer-aided modeling system. The description includes output port information of the first circuit block and synchronization signal information. The computer-aided modeling system selects a circuit core for the first circuit block responsive to output port information and the synchronization signal information, the circuit core including port metadata. The computer-aided modeling system selects at least one macro responsive to the port metadata for generation of the netlist. The macro is for rate synchronized coupling of the first circuit block to a second circuit block of the user design. The computer-aided modeling system outputs the netlist including the macro.

Abstract: Generating a high-level, bit-accurate and cycle-accurate simulation model. The various embodiments generate the simulation model from a functional description of a module and an HDL description of the module. The functional description may be un-timed and specified in a high-level language. The HDL description is realizable in hardware. The simulation model is created by obtaining the control specification from the HDL description and combining the control specification with the data path description from functional description.

Abstract: Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for simulating an integrated circuit within a modeling system using one or more circuit description language representations of circuitry is described. By example, a circuit description language representation of the one or more circuit description language representations of circuitry is translated into a program language circuit description. A first simulation process is executed and input data is obtained therefrom. A second simulation process is executed with the input data as parametric input to produce output data, the second simulation process being derived from the program language circuit description. The output data produce by the second simulation process is provided to the first simulation process.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for hardware co-simulation clocking is described. More particularly, single-step clocking is used to load one or more test vectors and to output test results from such test vectors after processing. The test vectors are processed with the hardware using a free-running clock, for example to speed up test time and to generate information related to operational speed. A simulation of the hardware is used, where single-step clocking out the test results facilitates verification of the hardware test results with simulation test results.