An automated system development tool that accelerates many phases of system-on-a-programmable-chip (SOPC) design, including the following:

• System definition and customization
• Component integration
• System verification
• Software generation for the custom hardware

SOPC Builder enables the combination of components such as embedded processors, standard peripherals, IP cores, on-chip memory, interfaces to off-chip memory, and user-defined logic into a custom system module. SOPC Builder generates a single system module that instantiates these components, and automatically generates the necessary bus logic to connect them together.