MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
May 13, 2021 /PRNewswire/
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Highlights of this Announcement:
- The industry's first 10 MHz emulation solution – ZeBu EP1
- The industry's first SoC power-aware emulation system – ZeBu
Empower
- Debug optimized for multi-billion gate designs and billions of
software cycles – ZeBu System Level Debug
- 70-100x emulation throughput gain with Virtualizer – ZeBu
Hybrid Emulation
- Rapid software development for PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0, USB3,
SATA, Ethernet, and NVMe-based design – ZeBu Virtual Host and
Device models
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced
disruptive innovations in emulation delivering 10 MHz performance
to speed hardware and software verification of complex
system-on-chips (SoCs) in areas such as high-performance computing
(HPC), 5G, GPU, artificial intelligence (AI) and automotive. The
new ZeBu® EP1 emulation system leverages Synopsys'
proven direct-connect architecture to optimize design communication
and deliver unprecedented emulation performance. In addition, the
unique power-aware emulation, system-level debug, hybrid emulation
and virtual host and device capabilities in ZeBu accelerate SoC
product readiness across both hardware and software domains.
Synopsys ZeBu EP1 is available now.
"We continue to accelerate innovation for our verification
hardware by collaborating with industry-leading customers," said
Manoj Gandhi, general manager of the
Verification Group at Synopsys. "ZeBu EP1 represents the
convergence of multiple hardware and software technologies to
deliver breakthrough performance and debug. The unique fast
emulation capability in ZeBu is enabling electronics companies to
develop and verify the most advanced SoCs with full software
stacks."
To keep up with its customer's growing SoC size, rising software
complexity, stringent power requirements and increased chip-to-chip
and external communication requirements, Synopsys relentlessly
innovates in emulation to deliver breakthrough performance,
industry-leading hardware-software power verification, unique
system-level debug capabilities, comprehensive hybrid emulation
solutions and the widest range of virtual interfaces. As
electronics companies have been investing in fast emulation and
prototyping farms to accelerate software-bring up, SoC verification
and system validation, Synopsys verification hardware has emerged
as the industry market leader. Synopsys' latest generation
emulation and prototyping systems incorporate the Xilinx Virtex
UltraScale+ VU19P device. The collaboration between Synopsys and
Xilinx drives continued innovation on FPGA compile, runtime
performance and at-speed debug.
As part of Synopsys Verification Continuum® Platform,
ZeBu is the industry's highest-performance, highest-throughput
emulation platform and supports a comprehensive range of use cases.
Recent ZeBu innovations include:
- ZeBu EP1, the industry's first 10 MHz emulation system,
utilizing Synopsys' proven direct-connect architecture, optimizes
design communication to accelerate hardware and software
verification for SoC designs of up to 2 billion gates.
- ZeBu Empower emulation system, the industry's first SoC
power-aware emulation system, enabling multiple iterations per day
with actionable power profiling in the context of the full design
and its software workload.
- ZeBu System Level Debug, the proven approach to
efficiently debug complex SoC with billion-cycle software
workloads, leveraging high-bandwidth host interface for continuous
data streaming and deterministic replay for eliminating redundant
emulation runs.
- ZeBu Hybrid Emulation with Virtualizer®
virtual prototyping, supported by an extensive library of virtual
processor, memory and interface models, delivers 70-100x throughput
gain for OS boot enabling more complex software validation and
earlier tape-out.
- ZeBu Virtual Host and Device models for PCIe 5.0,
USB3, SATA, Ethernet, and NVMe enable validation of host to device
software stack with real OS, driver, and application software of
complex SoCs.
- ZeBu Simulation Acceleration technology with unified
testbench and design compile, and speed optimized protocol
transactors provides 100x speed up for simulation for faster RTL
regression performance and environment bring up.
- ZeBu Speed Adapters connect ZeBu emulation systems to
real-world environments for in-circuit emulation (ICE) use cases.
Based on proven Synopsys DesignWare® IP, they support
PCIe, CXL 2.0, Ethernet, USB, SATA, Display port as well as 5G
testers, networking testers and customer specific hardware.
"Computing innovation is happening at a rapid pace across the
Arm partner ecosystem," said Tran
Nguyen, senior director of design services, Arm. "As more
software-intensive Arm-based HPC, 5G, GPU, AI and automotive
applications are developed, there is an increasing demand for
faster emulation and accelerated verification, and we continue to
work closely with Synopsys to address that need for our mutual
customers."
"Xilinx and Synopsys' deep technical collaboration over many
years has accelerated broad industry adoption of and innovation
around FPGA-based emulation and prototyping," said Vamsi Boppana, senior vice president, Central
Products Group at Xilinx. "With the growing complexity of SoC
designs and software, we look forward to continuing our close work
with Synopsys to advance a strong technology pipeline for FPGA
compile, runtime performance and at-speed debug."
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 an S&P 500
company, Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in
electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and offers
the industry's broadest portfolio of application security testing
tools and services. Whether you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer
creating advanced semiconductors, or a software developer writing
more secure, high-quality code, Synopsys has the solutions needed
to deliver innovative products. Learn more at www.synopsys.com.
Editorial Contacts:
Simone
Souza
Synopsys, Inc.
650-584-6454
simone@synopsys.com
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