Aldec Spec-tracer unified requirements life cycle management application 

Aldec’s Spec-tracer is a unified requirements life cycle management application designed specifically for FPGA and ASIC designs. Spec-tracer facilitates requirements capture, management, analysis, traceability and reporting that seamlessly integrates with windows-based HDL design and simulation tools. Traceability links between requirements and elements of the HDL design, testbench, log files and waveforms are established easily, and upstream/downstream traceability reports are generated automatically.

Combining a team-based methodology with appropriate requirements versions control, Spec-tracer is said to help companies streamline the requirements engineering process, optimise the development cycle, improve collaboration, and reduce risk and costs.

Key features include: direct integration to DOORS; team-based methodology; change impact analysis; test results management; requirements coverage analysis; predefined and user-defined reports; version and baseline control at requirements level; supports DO-254 requirements traceability.