EndPoint Verify Operation
- Bill OLeary
- Erik A
The NetBom EndPoint Verify operation enables the user to validate connections made to a list of endpoints in the selected netlist. NetBom can compare the net names and properties such as voltage attached to the pins/wires of each selected endpoint to the values in a Pin Report file.
The Pin Report file can be an FPGA Pin Report from Xilinx, Intel/Altera, Lattice, MicroChip/Microsemi, or (coming soon: a generic spreadsheet detailing the connections and other properties for each pin of the device).
The common usage of this is to verify connections made to FPGAs, connectors, or ASICs in the design.
Use Case
Let's say you have a board design with 2 FPGAS named U1, U3, a large ASIC named U11 and 2 DIMM Connectors named J1a, J1b.
You can use the EndPoint Verify GUI to configure settings for each endpoint (see image below).
Next, you run the EndPoint Verify operation.
NetBom will build a spreadsheet and an interactive web report (EndPoint Verify Report) comparing the net names in the netlist to the names in the Pin Report file for the same endpoint pin of each configured endpoint.
It will provide a match score using a proprietary Fuzzy Matching algorithm for the net names between the 2 designs.
