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Questa Lint

Features and Benefits The high impact of design issues on projects

Mistakes happen, but finding and fixing issues late in programs increases overall
Adaptive insight
program scope, as well as schedule and resource requirements. Competitive
• Collation of similar results to accelerate
pressures push teams constantly to do more. Functional verification teams face
find-and-fix cycles
significant challenges to build testbenches quickly, uncover design issues, and
• Change-only reporting to identify new enable rapid debug. Incomplete or incorrect bug fixes (or even new bugs intro-
issues caused by a recent change duced in the rush to meet immovable deadlines) compound the problem.
• Issue visualization via text, FSM, or sche- Actionable intent-focused insight for designers
matic views to identify issues intuitively Questa Lint provides a fast check of your RTL, without waiting for a testbench,
looking for completeness and consistency issues. Using syntactic, semantic,
Value through integration
stylistic, and structural analyses, Questa Lint identifies issues at the time of
• Complete LRM support through Questa to
introduction, preventing these issues from becoming expensive to fix later. Only
ensure code portability throughout the
issues that need to be fixed are reported, and the results are prioritized and
use of Questa tools and beyond
collated such that the first issues addressed will provide the biggest return.
• Pre-verified and compiled FPGA libraries Results are presented in intuitive visualizations, with metrics and quality scores
for rapid bring-up of FPGA designs summarizing detailed information in an easy-to-use dashboard.

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Features and Benefits (cont.) From immediate results to custom methodologies

Architected to provide immediate out-of-the-box results, Questa Lint imple-
• Common issue status flows and user
ments pre-configured methodologies for IP, FPGA, or SoC development. Each of
interfaces with other Questa Design
these methodologies offers an array of pre-defined readiness goals, such as
Solutions tools to ensure minimal
floor-planning or synthesis readiness. In addition, there are pre-built checksets
learning curve throughout the solution
supporting industry standards such as DO-254, ISO-26262, or STARC. Once
Design scoring familiar with the tool, you can configure your own methodologies and checks to
• Results-based quality score to determine enable Questa Lint to enforce your development methodology, either through
quality of internal and external IP release-focused reviews or through continuous integration flows.
Collaborative team-based debug Benefits and Highlights
• Team member-assignable issues to Immediate productivity — Questa Lint provides pre-defined configurations
enable teams to work collaboratively in for specific methodologies and—within those methodologies—pre-defined,
parallel to clean the design development-flow-aligned goals to provide out-of-the-box results. With the
addition of intelligent inference capabilities, identifying and applying attributes
Traceability and metrics
to your design, Questa Lint provides a fast path to finding issues without any
• Association of issues with requirements
set up or configuration.
for standards compliance
Data analysis-based assistance — Using proprietary data-analysis techniques,
• Instant metrics and trend analyses to
Questa Lint provides actionable results with low noise. Questa Lint reviews
ensure consistency
reported issues, then uses its deep understanding of every issue known to
Continuous integration support provide results different than the inferred intent (as well as those known to
• Support for common continuous cause false violations) to adapt the results. This results in Questa Lint reporting
integration flows to ensure a clean only the issues that need to be fixed, in the order of those that matter most,
design stays clean resulting in actionable results and faster fix cycles.

Using only your RTL, Questa Lint provides intent and quality-focused insight from the first line of code. Questa Lint’s
metrics and quality scores can be captured over time with trend analysis to ensure that a design that was once clean stays
clean. No testbench is required.
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Familiar visualization and foundations — collaborative mechanism that allows issues to

Questa Lint shares the same issue status flow be assigned to individuals, then tracks the
with other Questa Design Solutions tools, progress of fixes as not just you, but your
providing efficient transitions throughout the entire team work together to clean the design.
analyses in the various solutions. Questa Lint’s Continuous integration — Questa Lint inte-
user interfaces are built on the Visualizer UI grates into popular Continuous Integration
capabilities, and the analyses are built upon a management tools, ensuring that throughout
common foundation across Design Solutions the development process, a design, once
tools, providing familiarity and commonality proven clean, remains that way.
within the solution, then beyond to other
Siemens products, including simulation,
formal verification, and emulation.
Design scoring — Today’s development flows
require the integration of a great deal of IP,
whether it’s developed internally or acquired
externally. The task of the integrator is chal-
lenging, pulling together many pieces that
may not have been built to work together.
Questa Lint provides a design quality scoring
mechanism to enable you to quickly under-
stand which IP blocks are likely to cause issues
later. These scores are generated with propri-
etary algorithms that result in identifications of Part of Questa Design Solutions
the blocks that need attention sooner. Questa Lint is part of Questa Design Solutions,
Traceability support — Standards-compliant an integrated and complementary solution
development flows must exhibit both trace- that increases team agility and development
ability to requirements and a prescribed level consistency by optimizing and automating
of quality. Some standards require the ability verification for designers. Questa Design
to show the progression of quality metrics over Solutions delivers integrated intent-focused
time. Questa Design Solutions products insight from creation to completion. Using only
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Change-only reporting — With the goal of bugs early in the design process when the Americas
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new issues introduced with the latest fix. A preserves the design from unnecessary issues Europe
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result in other, new issues. By focusing on only resulting schedule impact, is greater. The Asia-Pacific
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quickly identify if your fix is complete. struction designs, then proving that the design For additional numbers,
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Team-based collaborative fixes —
throughout the implementation process.
Depending on your development flow, you
may find yourself with many issues to fix and
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