Empowering Design Quality with Harmony Trace

Overview

Key Features

• Comprehensive traceability: Create and maintain traceability between requirements, specifications, hardware designs, software code, tests, and documentation.
• System-of-systems integration: Harmonize disparate systems for end-to-end traceability of all artifacts.
• Tool integration: Link information from leading tools in requirements management, code repository, EDA, software engineering, verification, test, and documentation.
• Multi-domain linking: Enable traceability across multiple domains, providing a comprehensive understanding of the design.
• Seamless compatibility: Work with existing requirements management, specifications, hardware design, verification, software engineering, and documentation systems. Support popular tools including IBM DOORS, Jama Connect, Atlassian Jira, DITA, IP-XACT, EDA tools, and more.
• Extensibility and customization: Support custom, internally developed systems through customizable monitors, ensuring adaptability to specific project needs.
• Domain-independent API: Built-in API for custom reporting and automation, regardless of the specific tools or domains being used.
• Design-centric traceability: Connect design to the digital twin of the product through IP-XACT, establishing a closer link between design and physical implementation.
• Actionable knowledge and insights: Leverage semantic computing and data analytics to generate actionable knowledge and insights for informed decision-making.
• Auditable change impact: Receive immediate notifications and audit the impact of requirement violations, ensuring improved system integrity.

Benefits

• Increased system quality and functional safety certifications: Harmony Trace enables design teams to achieve higher system quality and obtain functional safety certifications, ensuring the reliability and robustness of complex SoCs or systems of SoCs.
• End-to-end traceability of all artifacts in the semiconductor product life cycle: Harmony Trace establishes and maintains traceability between various systems, including requirements, specifications, hardware designs, software code, tests, and documentation. This comprehensive traceability ensures transparency and accountability throughout the entire product development process.
• Integration of existing systems and tools for a cohesive "system-of-systems" approach: By integrating disparate systems and tools, Harmony Trace creates a unified "system-of-systems." This integration eliminates silos and allows for seamless collaboration, reducing errors and streamlining the design process.
• Freedom to use the "best tool for the job" without being limited to a single environment: Harmony Trace empowers engineers to choose the most suitable tools for their specific tasks. It links information from leading tools in different domains, such as requirements management, code repository, EDA, software engineering, verification, test, and documentation, allowing for optimal efficiency and productivity.
• Multi-domain linking fills gaps in existing flows and enhances understanding: With Harmony Trace, traceability extends across multiple domains, providing a more comprehensive and interconnected view of the design. This helps identify and bridge gaps in existing flows, ensuring a cohesive and holistic understanding of the system.
• Compatibility with a wide range of existing tools and systems: Harmony Trace seamlessly integrates with popular tools and systems used in the industry, including IBM DOORS, Jama Connect, Atlassian Jira, DITA, IP-XACT, and EDA tools. This compatibility ensures a smooth transition and minimizes disruptions to existing workflows.
• Extensibility to support custom, internally developed systems: Harmony Trace can be easily extended to accommodate custom, internally developed systems through customizable monitors. This flexibility enables organizations to tailor the solution to their specific requirements and workflows.
• Domain-independent API for custom reporting and automation: Harmony Trace provides a domain-independent API, allowing for custom reporting and automation across different domains. This enables engineers to extract actionable insights, generate custom reports, and automate repetitive tasks, improving productivity and decision-making.
• Design-centric traceability connected to the digital twin for closer correlation: Harmony Trace establishes a close connection between design and the product's digital twin through IP-XACT. This design-centric traceability enhances the correlation between the virtual and physical aspects of the system, facilitating better analysis, debugging, and optimization.
• Actionable knowledge and insights through semantic computing and data analytics: Harmony Trace leverages semantic computing and data analytics to extract actionable knowledge and insights from the integrated data. By analyzing the linked information, engineers gain valuable insights that can drive informed decision-making, optimize processes, and improve overall system performance.

Block Diagram

Applications

• SoC Systems integration: Unify disparate systems for end-to-end traceability.

Technical Specifications