Requirements Lifecycle Management
Spec-TRACER™ is a unified requirements lifecycle management solution designed specifically for FPGAs and ASICs. Spec-TRACER facilitates requirements management, traceability, tests management, impact analysis and reporting, and seamlessly integrates with windows-based HDL design and simulation tools. Spec-TRACER helps companies streamline the requirements engineering process, optimize the development cycle, improve collaboration, and reduce risk and costs.
Top Features Spec-TRACER
Requirements Capture
- Automatic import from MS Word or Excel via heading styles or tags including requirements ID, name, description, tables and pictures
- Direct Integration with DOORS (Import/Export Functionalities)
- User-defined requirement attributes to give context to requirement characteristics, status and importance
- Compare and track multiple version of requirements
- Baseline requirements
Traceability
- Traceability links between requirements, HDL code, test cases, testbench, log files and waveforms are established easily
- Generate upstream/downstream traceability reports
Change Impact Analysis
- Know the impact of requirements changes before and after they occur
- Know the exact number of projects elements that will be impacted
Tests Management
- Create and manage verification plans
- Track and analyze test status and test results after regressions including PASS/FAIL status, Code Coverage, Expression Coverage, Assertions Coverage and SystemVerilog Functional Coverage
- Automatically generate traceability from tests to log files, waveforms, coverage database and html reports
Documentation and Reporting
- Review requirements, test cases and test results against a checklist and generate review activities
- Generate daily, weekly or monthly reports via batch
- Create complex reports to implement company standards and templates
- DO-254 Compliant Templates and Checklists