SUSIE                            schematics, IBM PC
SUSIE Verifies Your Schematic Designs
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
SUSIE -- Standard Universal Simulator for Improved Engineering
-- is Riva's new universal design verification system for
schematics. Within seconds, the program can build a software
breadboard from your schematic, and then it can check the entire
design during each clock cycle for problems such as bus
conflicts, glitches, and timing violations. The software's
simulator and libraries are written entirely in assembly
language, resulting in a simulation speed in excess of 260,000
gates per second on an IBM AT.
 
In addition to diagnosing problems, SUSIE also tells you what
you need to do to fix the design; fixes are resimulated in
seconds. The software breadboard behaves exactly like a hardware
version, so you can change ICs, wiring, JEDEC fuse maps, and
hexadecimal files in real time. You can have inputs and outputs
grounded or fed with test vectors, and you can modify them, on-
the-fly, during simulation. SUSIE can also verify programmable
logic devices and microprocessors at system level, avoiding
surprises at board level.
 
SUSIE requires an IBM AT or 80386 computer with 512K bytes of
RAM and DOS 2.1.
 
Price: L1495.
 
Contact: Riva Ltd., 3 Bentley Industrial Centre, Bentley,
Farnham, Surrey GU10 5NJ, UK, 44-04-202-2666.
 
                              --- Martha Hicks
 
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