{"id":27975,"date":"2020-09-22T15:43:36","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T22:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=27975"},"modified":"2020-09-22T08:56:53","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:56:53","slug":"saving-time-with-vaxel-ez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/saving-time-with-vaxel-ez\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving Time with VAXEL-EZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you been spending a lot of time developing a test bench for your latest RTL design? Or, perhaps you\u2019re only a little familiar with FPGA, and you\u2019re looking for some tools to make your life easier. Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/vaxelinc.com\/vaxel-ez\/\">VAXEL-EZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Digilent has partnered with the hardware design verification professionals at VAXEL Inc. to support their Affordable Design Verification Acceleration Platform on Digilent\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/eclypse-z7-zynq-7000-soc-development-board-with-syzygy-compatible-expansion\/?utm_source=digilent%20blog&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=vaxel%20ez&amp;utm_content=saving%20time%20with%20vaxel\">Eclypse Z7<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/zybo-z7-zynq-7000-arm-fpga-soc-development-board\/?utm_source=digilent%20blog&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=vaxel%20ez&amp;utm_content=saving%20time%20with%20vaxel\">Zybo Z7<\/a> boards.<\/p>\n<p>VAXEL-EZ is all about saving time. With a UI-driven FPGA synthesizing tool, over 60 pre-validated verification IP blocks, an easy-to-use Command Line Interface, and C and Python libraries, you can get software engineers involved in RTL verification and improve the RTL design quality early in your project.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-27977\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/vaxel-600x256.png\" alt=\"example design flow using VAXEL-EZ\" width=\"600\" height=\"256\" data-wp-pid=\"27977\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/vaxel-600x256.png 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/vaxel-1024x437.png 1024w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/vaxel-768x328.png 768w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/vaxel-1536x655.png 1536w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/vaxel.png 1756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VAXEL-EZ boosts productivity of algorithm verification processes on Digilent FPGA boards. The package includes a set of utility software that runs on Windows to facilitate tasks ranging from automation of FPGA synthesis to execution of tests. With VAXEL-EZ, no FPGA expertise is needed to take full advantage of the Digilent FPGA boards.<\/p>\n<p>VAXEL has a dedicated <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/vaxel\/?utm_source=digilent%20blog&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=vaxel%20ez&amp;utm_content=saving%20time%20with%20vaxel\">partner page<\/a> in the Digilent Store, where you can get a VAXEL-EZ license bundled with a Digilent Eclypse Z7 or Zybo Z7. You can also get a stand-alone license if you already have the hardware. An academic discount is available on the stand-alone license and Zybo bundles for students and professors with verified accounts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27976\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/vaxel-logo.png\" alt=\"vaxel logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"68\" data-wp-pid=\"27976\" \/><\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-27975 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='27975' data-nonce='5286a1c13f' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-27975 lc'>+10<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-27975 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='27975' data-nonce='5286a1c13f' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-27975 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-27975 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digilent is partnering with VAXEL, Inc. to make FPGA design easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[1662,1732],"ppma_author":[4502],"class_list":["post-27975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fpga","tag-fpga","tag-fpga-design"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4502,"user_id":50,"is_guest":0,"slug":"davidh","display_name":"David Horn","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/917c337136844f075c76fcf4a0c3b94aa8c225366009ebf63c08fcb9ce6d0e52?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27975"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=27975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}