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3 – SmartFusion Development Tools
SmartFusion™ applications will be developed by a multi-discipline team of designers working on one
project or one designer acting in several roles. Actel has developed design tools and flows to meet the
needs of three different skilled designers that can work smoothly together in a single project
Figure 3-1 • Three Design Roles
For FPGA designers, Libero
designing with all Actel FPGAs. Libero IDE includes industry leading synthesis, simulation, and place-
and-route debug tools, including Synplicity
optimization, and power analysis.
For embedded designers, Actel offers FREE SoftConsole Eclipse-based IDE, as well as evaluation
versions from Keil™ and IAR Systems. Full versions of the latter are available from the respective
suppliers.
For analog designers, the microcontroller subsystem (MSS) configurator provides graphical setup for
current, voltage, and temperature monitors, sample sequencing setup and post processing configuration,
and DAC output.
The MSS configurator creates a bridge between the FPGA and embedded designers so device
configuration can be easily shared between multiple developers.
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FPGA designers
Embedded software designers
Analog designers
Design Entry, IP Library
Timing, Power Analysis
Simulation, Synthesis
Hardware Debug
Compile, Layout
FPGA Design
MSS Configuration – Analog Configuration
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Integrated Design Environment (IDE) is Actel's comprehensive toolset for
FlashPro4, ULINK, J-LINK
Hardware Interfaces
MSS Configurator
R e v i s i o n 3
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and ModelSim,
Drivers, Sample Projects
Application Development
Embedded Design
Software Debug
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Build Project
Simulation
as well as innovative timing, power
(Figure
3-1).
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