MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Oct 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --
Highlights:
- Synopsys' native automotive solutions enable designers to
efficiently implement and verify functional safety mechanisms to
achieve target ASIL for safety-critical SoCs
- Synopsys' differentiated solutions enable designers to avoid
custom scripting solutions and improve runtime, job-execution
capacity, quality-of-results, and ease-of-use
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced its new
native automotive solutions for more efficient system-on-chip (SoC)
design. The accelerating evolution of vehicle technologies means
that more automotive chips are required to satisfy higher
automotive safety integrity levels (ASILs) for autonomous driving
and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). Synopsys' native
automotive design solutions enable designers to achieve their
target ASILs by providing the industry's most comprehensive feature
set to implement functional safety (FuSa) mechanisms, such as
triple-mode redundancy (TMR), dual-core lock-step (DCLS), and
failsafe finite state machine (FSM).
With the differentiation available through native automotive
solutions, designers can generate the industry's first FuSa intent
early in the design flow to describe safety mechanism behavior,
which is used as input and maintained throughout the digital design
flow. Synopsys' native automotive solutions comprise a complete
digital design flow incorporating FuSa-enabled technologies, which
work together to maximize efficiency. These technologies
include:
- TestMAX FuSa performs early functional-safety analysis at RTL-
or gate-level and identifies candidates for TMR or DCLS redundancy
to achieve single-point fault metric (SPFM) goals for target
ASIL
- Design Compiler® NXT synthesis, IC
Compiler™ II place-and-route, and Fusion
Compiler™ design insert, check, and report the safety
mechanisms implemented
- Formality® equivalence checker functionally verifies
that the RTL matches the netlist after redundancy or additional
logic modules are inserted
- IC Validator physical signoff verifies the layout and reports
that all redundancy mechanisms are correctly implemented
"As next-generation automotive applications continue to drive
market growth, designers are under increasing pressure to satisfy
functional safety requirements yet still meet aggressive
time-to-market goals," said Shankar Krishnamoorthy, senior vice
president of design implementation for the Design Group at
Synopsys. "Synopsys now offers the industry's first complete set of
natively integrated capabilities to implement and verify functional
safety mechanisms. Designers will benefit from significantly
reduced time-to-market and improved quality-of-results for their
safety-critical automotive designs."
Synopsys Automotive Design Solutions
Synopsys'
comprehensive automotive design solutions deliver complex FuSa
analysis, implementation, and verification capabilities.
Differentiated offerings for automotive design, such as unified
functional safety verification and native automotive solutions,
enable designers to prove at the planning and implementation phases
that their chip safety architecture can achieve target ASILs. The
unified functional safety verification solution brings together
best-in-class technologies for fault campaign management under a
single unified cockpit. Early functional safety analysis can
quickly identify candidates for TMR and DCLS redundancy and
estimate metrics for target ASILs. Synopsys' native automotive
solutions provide the industry's most comprehensive feature set to
efficiently implement and verify FuSa mechanisms, such as TMR,
DCLS, and failsafe FSM. Comprehensive digital/analog fault
injection and simulation can be performed to produce reliable
metrics for final analysis and roll-up. Synopsys also provides
complete solutions to address reliability challenges, including
electromigration (EM), voltage (IR) drop, device aging, and robust
redundant via insertion (RVI) capabilities. Synopsys provides
designers with a broad portfolio of automotive IP that is designed
and tested for AEC-Q100 reliability, offers ASIL-ready ISO 26262
certification, and supports automotive quality management.
Furthermore, Synopsys' unified functional safety verification
solution includes:
- VC Functional Safety Manager, a high-quality, scalable, and
distributed FMEDA automation tool delivering the highest
productivity through the FMEA/FMEDA and unified fault campaign
process
- TestMAX FuSa performs fast, early functional-safety analysis at
RTL- or gate-level
- Z01X™ fault simulator for fast, proven digital fault
simulation
- VC Formal™ FuSa App
to accelerate fault classification through application of formal
filtering
- TestMAX CustomFault™ fault simulator delivers
high-performance analog and mixed-signal fault simulation for
full-chip functional safety and test coverage analysis
- ZeBu® emulator performs fault emulation for long,
software-rich tests
- Verdi® Fault
Analysis for debug, planning, and coverage, including integration
with industry-leading requirement tracking tools
- Certitude® functional qualification to demonstrate
verification flow robustness in support of ISO 26262 Part 8-9
assessments
Availability
Synopsys' native automotive solutions
will be generally available in December
2019.
For more information, please visit
www.synopsys.com/automotive.html.
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the
Silicon to Software™ partner for innovative companies
developing the electronic products and software applications we
rely on every day. As the world's 15th largest software
company, Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in
electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and is also
growing its leadership in software security and quality solutions.
Whether you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer creating advanced
semiconductors, or a software developer writing applications that
require the highest security and quality, Synopsys has the
solutions needed to deliver innovative, high-quality, secure
products. Learn more at www.synopsys.com.
Editorial Contact:
James
Watts
Synopsys, Inc.
650-584-1625
jwatts@synopsys.com
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