ATDS1100PC/1120PC/1130PC/1140PC

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ECS – Schematic Entry

Atmel-Synario schematic tool is a MS Windows-based

environment. Schematic Capture in Navigator mode gives

an online view of the connectivity database. Push into a

lower-level schematic and upper level signal names are

visible below. Highlight a net and you can follow it up and

down the hierarchy. Run a design-rule check, and errors

appear in a box; click on an error, and the schematic jumps

to the page and location of the error. Whenever a new

device is targeted, libraries are changed automatically.

Device-independent Design

Device-independent design is a useful design technique. It

frees the designer from architectural knowledge, and

allows the best device fit to each application. Until now

each architecture required a different library, with different

symbols. Atmel-Synario solves this problem with its power-

ful and unique device-independent library. Using the

standard building blocks the device-independent library

provides, you can draw entire schematics that can be tar-

geted to any device. The symbols have all the “smarts” to

map efficiently and simulate correctly in any target device.

You can build device-independent soft macros the same

way. If you desire architecture specific functions, simply

use the Atmel-Specific library for more efficient utilization.

Now going from a 5 ns ATF16V8C to a high-density

ATF1508 CPLD is only a compilation away.