A Web-CAD methodology for IP-core analysis and simulation

An effective selection of the more suited IP-core, available for a particular design, should be based on some simulation sessions. However, simulation models cannot be close enough to the real models of the core to protect the intellectual property. This paper proposes a Web-CAD methodology for IP-core analysis based on a client/server simulation architecture. The core vendor can make available to the public even the core models used for core synthesis without disclosing IP information. On the other side, the core user can simulate the remote core in the local simulation environment in the same way a local library component is simulated. To achieve this result, some problems concerning the non equivalence of the event driven semantic and the message driven semantic have been analyzed and solved.