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which tools support Linting for early stages of Digital Design flow?

TR20240805746

I am trying to understand the Linting process. I know that mainly JasperGold is the tool for this purpose. Though I think JasperGold is more suited for later stages of the design. As a RTL Design Engineer, I want to make sure that if another tool has the capability of doing Linting earlier in the flow. for example, does Xcelium, Genus or Confomal support linting. I have seen some contradicting information online regarding this topic, though I can't find anything related to Linting on any of these tools.

Thanks

  • Jesswade

    For early-stage RTL linting, use SpyGlass (Synopsys) or Ascent Lint (Real Intent). These are dedicated tools for linting. Xcelium, Genus, and Conformal are not designed for comprehensive linting, though they may catch some basic issues during simulation or synthesis. Let me know if you need detailed setup guidance!

  • ckomar
    in reply to Jesswade

    JasperGold Superlint is absolutely geared for comprehensive early (or late) RTL linting. Its complementary auto formal checks can further help the designer uncover common issues not found by structural lint.  Please reach out to me using my userid at cadence.com if you want to discuss further.

  • TR20240805746
    in reply to ckomar

    Thank you very much Ckomar. So we can say that Conformal doesn't have any Linting features. Right?

  • ckomar
    in reply to TR20240805746

    In general, I think any tool that parses RTL has some linting capability but I cannot comment on the extent of Conformal's capabilities.  I can only say that Jasper is Cadence's comprehensive linting solution.  

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