Rapid Prototyping Made Easy
The HAPS High-performance ASIC Prototyping System is part of the Synopsys Confirma Rapid Prototyping Plus Platform. The HAPS products consist of high performance prototyping boards that are ideal for use in system validation and embedded software development.
Modular and Flexible
HAPS is a modular board system consisting of a selection of off-the shelf motherboards and either off-the-shelf or custom designed daughter boards which can be stacked in a variety of ways to accommodate and support many design styles and requirements. The motherboards vary in size from one to multiple FPGA interconnected devices. The connections between FPGAs in the multi-FPGA motherboards fit most designs – but, if needed existing connectivity can be increased by adding standard interconnect boards. These daughter boards connect pins on two or more connectors, thus adding local or global buses. This unique modularity of the HAPS prototyping system mean that the same motherboards can be reused for several projects or configurations simply by adding or replacing daughter boards or subsystems.
Other unique features of the HAPS prototyping system include their defined geometry and topology. Connectors for I/O and expansion of inter-FPGA buses are placed in a regular matrix on both sides of the boards allowing Motherboards and daughter boards to be connected to each other in a variety of ways. This interconnection is accomplished through the distinctive HapsTrak standard. The HapsTrak standard is a set of rules for pinout and mechanical characteristics, which guarantees compatibility with previous and future generations of HAPS motherboards and daughter boards.
Solid and reliable
With its robust design which is ideal for high frequencies and high signal integrity, HAPS is a highly reliable hardware platform for ASIC prototyping. Built-in self-tests check for hardware errors on power-up and temperature watchdogs check for overheating during operation ensuring that designs run on fault-free boards.
Interfaces, memory and other sub systems
HAPS motherboards connect to the external world via HapsTrak connectors, a dozen global clocks and global signals, some GPIOs for testing purposes and JTAG for configuration and debug.
HAPS daughter boards connect to the motherboards via the HapsTrak interfaces. Various types of memory and interfaces to Ethernet, USB, PCI Express, SATA, ARM®, video and logic analyzers are some of the functions available of daughter boards. As new standards are established, new daughter boards are added to the HAPS family.
Powerful Clocking Schemes
All global clocks within the HAPS systems are individually buffered and optimized for low skew. The clock signals can be driven either externally via SMB connectors or internally from the FPGAs and on-board clock oscillators. The source of each clock net is easily configured directly on the motherboard. All clocks are also available as outputs in SMB connectors. Local clocks to individual FPGAs are available in all connectors to be used by daughter boards.