MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Oct. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --
Highlights:
- Power electronics component and system complexity is growing
rapidly driven by electrification of automotive, aerospace and
industrial systems
- Virtual prototyping enables design teams to start development
early and validate their designs prior to physical implementation,
leading to better products and lowering development costs
- SaberEXP delivers fast simulation convergence to enable early
power component design and seamless export flow into high fidelity
large system design using SaberRD
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the
industry's most comprehensive virtual prototyping solution to
accelerate power electronics system design from concept to
validation for power components to large complex systems. As part
of the solution, Synopsys introduced SaberEXP to deliver fast
simulation convergence and higher productivity for early power
component design, such as power converter and motor drive. SaberEXP
also provides a seamless export flow into high fidelity large
system design using Synopsys' industry-leading power electronics
tool, SaberRD.
Electrification of automotive, aerospace and industrial systems
is accelerating. According to McKinsey & Company, automotive is
fueling the power electronics market expansion with an expected 15
percent compound annual growth rate between 2020 and 2030. Such
systems require increasingly complex and efficient power
electronics subsystems to ensure maximum power delivery and use.
These changes have increased the development cost and reduced the
productivity of developers. Better methodology and tools addressing
concept design studies, electrical component selection, scalability
to large systems including validation in the context of software,
and dependency on expensive physical testbenches are required. The
use of a scalable virtual prototyping solution from concept to
validation of power electronics systems enables design teams to
start development early and validate their design prior to physical
implementation, leading to better products and lower development
costs.
"As power electronics continue to advance in complexity, it's
essential to validate designs early, well before physical
implementation," said Peter Wilson,
Professor of Electronics and Systems Engineering at University of
Bath. "Fast simulation is absolutely essential to performing
validation early and ensuring design fidelity. Synopsys SaberEXP
provides a fast and efficient way to carry out rapid evaluations of
design concepts before carrying out system level and complex
multiple-domain analysis using SaberRD."
SaberEXP's high abstraction models and piecewise linear (PWL)
solver provide high accuracy and convergence for power converters
and motor drives for fast time to result. Key capabilities and
benefits include:
- Comprehensive general-purpose high-abstraction model
library
- High-speed mixed mode solver to verify the stability of
switched mode power supplies
- Parametric and statistical design capabilities to accelerate
the optimization and verification of design robustness
- Easier to use, with minimal simulation tuning, and more robust
than SPICE-based tools
SaberEXP designs can be seamlessly imported into SaberRD
allowing high-fidelity simulation, handling of large systems and
leveraging a rich feature set for robust design. SaberEXP and
SaberRD are part of Synopsys virtual prototyping products including
Silver and Virtualizer™. They enable the comprehensive
design, development and verification of electronic systems
including software.
"Automotive, aerospace and industrial embedded systems integrate
increasingly complex and feature-rich power electronics, digital
hardware and software," said Tom De
Schutter, vice president of Engineering at
Synopsys. "The introduction of SaberEXP enables our customers
to deploy a faster, more productive and standardized solution for
power electronics from concept to validation and leverage its
integration with our broader virtual prototyping products for
embedded system verification and validation."
Availability
Synopsys SaberEXP is available now.
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:
Simone Souza
Synopsys, Inc.
650-584-6454
simone@synopsys.com
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