Drawing type EDA tool based on ASM theory strengthens IC forward end and designs Exsedia Company to put out Nimbus scheme to the Chinese market recently, utilize drawing design to help IC designer to launch MPEG, wireless or other communication and design of networking products fast. Nimbus is the system level (ESL) that one kind is electronic GUI design tool, it incorporates functions such as the framework design, function verification, simulation and RTL grade code generation based on cycle,etc. into an organic whole, it is ASIC and FPGA designs the software solution of forward end in the procedure. Nimbus offers the ocular type figure design method for system design, it is the modeling of logic design to adopt the procedure symbol, the procedure that the system level of instant using graph description is designed, then transform into Verilog. The explanatory note of Nimbus graphics mode is with the algorithmic state machine (ASM) Based on the theory, establish data channel and path control in digital design through ASM, and can add various targets used for describing behaviorally conveniently. The initial price of Nimbus 100 edition is 8000 dollars. Exsedia chief executive officer Abdul Razak Bahrom says: “Nimbus lets engineers represent and design the concept clearly more clearly, it is easy to compromise and develop the operation formula on the framework, needn’t use the hardware description language different to mate . ” The management tool Ipalette based on that the domain block is designed that Nimbus and this company plan to be put out to the market at the end of the year matches, contribute to accelerating designing, filing, reusing and share and design the achievement, further shorten products design cycle. Exsedia run with Tsing-Hua University together Nimbus design training course, help, train more China IC design engineers. Communication Center News Information www.CCNinfo.com