When using large FPGA's on a PCB making sure that the FPGA pins are connected to the right signals on the PCB is a cumbersome task. On the FPGA side the pins are assigned to the HDL signals that form the toplevel of the logic implemented on the FPGA. On the PCB side the pins have to be connected to the proper net that will connect it to other components on the PCB. Because implementation of FPGA and PCB is often done in parallel and by different engineers, the signal names used are not always identical. To make things even worse, it is often necessary to perform pin swaps to prevent PCB routing problems. These pin swaps have to be made both on the FPGA and the PCB. As this is almost always manual work, and current devices have over 1500 pins, a mistake is easily made.

Intelligent Verification
IO Checker uses rules (based on regular expressions) to match the signal names in both the FPGA and PCB design environment. It allows the tool to validate groups of matches although individual signals can still differ. The rules can be generated automatically and be fine-tuned by the designer. The automated approach will often match 80% to 90% of all device pins.

Features & Benefits

Compare FPGA and PCB pin names using regular expressions
Create & update FPGA constraint file
Automatic rule generation
Voltage checks for power pins
User directed acceptance of verified differences
One click verification and consistency
Reports incremental changes in pin- and net list
Concentrate on a dozen differences instead of a thousand lines
Fits in any design flow
HTML report

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