Rosta (Reconfigurable Open System Tools and  Applications)

ROSTA is a flexible general interface through which different tools can be plugged in. These tools can interact through devised mechanisms available in the interface framework.  There are easily manageable windows for reporting and debugging. The user can employ other tools such as, Wave Editor and VSC through this interface.

 

 

Application

This environment is useful for integrating different tools (EDA). These tools are plugged in to this environment as a specified dll format.

	By utilizing this general interface it is possible  to add new tools with minimum overhead. The full design corresponds to a workspace and is partitioned into projects containing source files of logical units.
	Currently VHDL, Wave File, XML and schematic files are supported. Each tool can register itself for a specific file or format and the interface will reconfigure.

Format

Implementation in VC++ environment, using MFC classes.

Technical Specification

First, a workspace is defined in ROSTA environment. Second different projects could be made in each workspace. Finally the files are added to the projects.The constructed projects are shown in the project view tab.
Different tools such as analyzer, V2V(Verilog to VHDL), ... can easily be performed in the same project view tab.

End Users

Tool developers.

System Requirements

Windows 98 and up.