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Forbes
26-03-2025
- Business
- Forbes
Synopsys Prototyping And Emulation Tools Accelerate Time To Market
Synopsys headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif. Over the last few weeks, silicon and system design leader Synopsys, has introduced a plethora of new platforms and tools in their hardware-assisted verification (HAV) and virtual prototyping portfolios meant to streamline workflows and accelerate time to market for chips, systems and software across virtually all markets. Synopsys introduced its latest HAPS prototyping and ZeBu emulation systems – the HAPS-200 and ZeBu-200 – featuring AMD's latest Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC, which deliver vastly improved capacity and better performance, compile times, and debugging capabilities. And just a couple of days ago, the company also introduced Virtualizer Native Execution on Arm Hardware, which is a comprehensive virtualizer suite supported on Arm server hardware, whether running in the cloud or on-premise, for modeling, simulation, debug, and analysis for Arm-based devices. The latest HAPS-200 prototyping and ZeBu-200 emulation systems are built on new Synopsys Emulation and Prototyping (EP-Ready) Hardware and target leading-edge chip and system designers and architects. Though the systems have some fundamental underlying similarities, each is tuned for specific workloads – either prototyping or emulation – and both offer significantly increased capacity and higher performance than its predecessor, to accelerate the development of today's larger and more complex chips, systems and software. HAPS-200 offers comprehensive prototyping, which enables early software development and validation, and ultimately affords users better hardware-software integration. ZeBu-200 on the other hand is for broad, rich emulation, for thorough verification of complex chips and SoC designs with extensive debug capabilities. "With the industry approaching 100s of billions of gates per chip and 100s of millions of lines of software code in SoC and multi-die solutions, verification of advanced designs poses never before seen challenges,' said Ravi Subramanian, chief product management officer, Synopsys. 'Continuing our strong partnership with AMD, our new systems deliver the highest HAV performance while offering the ultimate flexibility between prototyping and emulation use. Industry leaders are adopting Synopsys EP-Ready Hardware platforms for silicon to system verification and validation." Synopsys HAPS-200 and ZeBu-200 Systems. The new HAPS-200 and ZeBu-200 are complementary systems, but each excels at different things. HAPS-200 has been updated and enhanced with more powerful platform hardware and offers approximately 4 times the performance of the company's previous-gen system for pre-silicon hardware debugging. I should note, however, that the HAPS-200 still integrates with previous-gen systems. In fact, it leverages the existing HAPS-100 ecosystem and supports mixed HAPS-200/100 setups. The HAPS-200 is scalable from single FPGA to multi-rack configurations as well, with capacities of up to 10.8 Billion Gates (BG). The Synopsys ZeBu-200 emulation system has been updated and upgraded as well, to support a design capacity of up to 15.4 BG, with up to double the runtime performance compared to the previous generation ZeBu EP2. The ZeBu-200 also offers faster compile times and up to 8X better debug bandwidth. Synopsys claims the ZeBu-200 offers up to 200 GB debug trace memory per module, with improved job scheduling and relocation too. All of this essentially equates to reduced turnaround times and increased development productivity – something all chip makers sorely need. Before sending any chip design off to the fab, it requires extensive qualification and testing – it is not cheap to re-spin a chip. HAPS and ZeBu help ensure optimal quality, before committing to fabrication. Synopsys isn't just about hardware and chip innovations, however. Its new Virtualizer Native Execution on Arm-based hardware will do for software development, what its HAPS and ZeBu systems do for prototyping and emulation. The Synopsys Virtualizer Native Execution on Arm will effectively accelerate software development for edge devices by improving capabilities and productivity of teams building software-defined products that leverage Arm architectures and instruction sets. As most of you probably know, Arm is near ubiquitous in the automotive, mobile, High-Performance Computing (HPC), and Internet of Things markets. Synopsys HAV Systems. 'Software-defined products are driving a re-engineering of product development from silicon to systems,' said Ravi Subramanian, chief product management officer, Synopsys. 'Virtualizer Native Execution on Arm accelerates hardware/software co-design by enabling new agile software development methodologies for Arm-based edge and high-performance computing applications.' These kinds of performance increases across virtually every design and development stage are key for chip, system and platform designers in the current AI era, to remain competitive, reduce turnaround time and help speed time to market. A multitude of companies, from NVIDIA and AMD to smaller start-ups, have all committed to yearly updates for some new product releases. That is a tall order for any tech company, and tools like these offered by Synopsys are practically a prerequisite to achieve those goals in the current landscape. Chips and systems are getting more complex and there is a shortage of humans with the experience and expertise to design and build them. Faster, more capable, intelligent tools are paramount to ensure quality and ensure optimal time to market. The Synopsys HAPS-200 prototyping system and Virtualizer Native Execution on the Arm hardware suite are available now. The Synopsys ZeBu-200 emulation system, however, is available for early access customers only at this time.
Yahoo
13-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Synopsys Expands the Industry's Highest Performance Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio to Propel Next-Generation Semiconductor and Design Innovation
Industry Leaders Including AMD, Arm, NVIDIA, and SiFive are Deploying Synopsys' Prototyping and Emulation Technologies Highlights New Synopsys HAPS-200 prototyping and ZeBu-200 emulation systems provide the industry's fastest performance New Synopsys Emulation and Prototyping Ready (EP-Ready) Hardware enables configuration for emulation and prototyping use-cases within and across multiple projects on a single hardware platform Enhanced modular hardware-assisted verification (HAV) methodology scales ZeBu Server 5 to complex designs over 60 billion gates Synopsys hybrid technology utilizing Synopsys Virtualizer™ virtual prototypes now supports multi-threading and delivers Android boot in less than 10 minutes SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the expansion of its industry-leading hardware-assisted verification (HAV) portfolio with new HAPS® prototyping and ZeBu® emulation systems using the latest AMD Versal™ Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC. The next generation HAPS-200 prototyping and ZeBu-200 emulation systems deliver improved runtime performance, better compile time and improved debug productivity. They are built on new Synopsys Emulation and Prototyping (EP-Ready) Hardware that optimizes customer return on investment by enabling emulation and prototyping use cases via reconfiguration and optimized software. ZeBu Server 5 is enhanced to deliver industry-leading scalability beyond 60 billion gates (BG) to address the escalating hardware and software complexity in SoC and multi-die designs. It continues to offer industry-best density to optimize data center space utilization. "With the industry approaching 100s of billions of gates per chip and 100s of millions of lines of software code in SoC and multi-die solutions, verification of advanced designs poses never-before seen challenges," said Ravi Subramanian, chief product management officer, Synopsys. "Continuing our strong partnership with AMD, our new systems deliver the highest HAV performance while offering the ultimate flexibility between prototyping and emulation use. Industry leaders are adopting Synopsys EP-Ready Hardware platforms for silicon to system verification and validation." HAPS-200 Prototyping and ZeBu-200 Emulation Systems Offer 2X Performance Increase and Advanced Debug Capabilities The Synopsys HAPS-200 prototyping system offers industry-leading runtime performance and faster compile with 4X improved debug performance over HAPS-100. It leverages the existing HAPS-100 ecosystem and supports mixed HAPS-200/100 system setups scalable from single FPGA to multi-rack setups with capacity of up to 10.8 BG. While extending design capacity to up to 15.4 BG, the Synopsys ZeBu-200 emulation system also offers up to 2X higher runtime performance compared to the previous generation ZeBu EP2 with faster compile time, reducing turnaround time and enhancing development productivity. It features up to 8X better debug bandwidth, offering 200 GB debug trace memory per module and improved job scheduling and relocation. "With the increasing market requirements for handling large AI computational data sets driving the need for enormous GPU and CPU computational power, the development time for NVIDIA's next generation AI systems have become highly compressed to a yearly release cycle, necessitating best-in-class prototyping solutions," said Narendra Konda, vice president, Hardware Engineering at NVIDIA. "Synopsys HAPS-200 offers the fastest prototyping speed in the industry. The 50 MHz performance we have been able to achieve with HAPS-200 has been key to boosting productivity of our software development teams. We are looking forward to scaling our HAPS-200 deployment to take full advantage for our software development teams." Synopsys EP-Ready Hardware Platform Provides Highest ROI The HAPS-200 and ZeBu-200 systems are built on the Synopsys EP-Ready Hardware platform to optimize ROI for customers and eliminate the need to decide the required balance of emulation and prototyping hardware upfront. The EP-Ready Hardware platform supports cables and hubs for direct and scalable connectivity. Users can leverage the broad portfolio of solutions for leading interface protocols through the transactors and speed adaptors. "The future of emulation and prototyping demands unprecedented performance, adaptability, and scalability," said Salil Raje, senior vice president and general manager, Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group at AMD. "By integrating the AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC, with its industry-leading capacity*, performance, and debug capabilities, into Synopsys' EP-Ready platforms we're not only improving performance metrics, we're also transforming how engineering teams can validate and optimize their most ambitious new ASIC and SoC designs. Our longstanding partnership with Synopsys empowers design teams to tackle their most complex verification challenges, from AI/ML workloads to multi-die architectures, while dramatically accelerating time to market." "Synopsys is a key member of Arm Total Design, bringing critical tools and the advanced HAV capabilities to quickly and reliably validate solutions built on Arm Compute Subsystems (CSS)," said Kevork Kechichian, executive vice president, Solutions Engineering, Arm. "The new ZeBu-200 and HAPS-200 hardware platforms will also assist our mutual customers in integrating Arm CSS into their designs with improved turnaround times to meet the demanding requirements for complex data center infrastructure and automotive systems." Increasing Scalability for Multi-Die Designs and Accelerating Software Bring-Up Already in use with customers leveraging HAPS prototyping, Synopsys extends its methodology of "Modular HAV" to ZeBu Server 5, growing its industry leading scalability beyond 60 BG to meet the industry's growing emulation capacity needs, to significantly reduce compile time and compute resources, and to enable emulation for the largest multi-die designs. The Modular HAV methodology utilizes interface protocol solutions that leverage Synopsys' broad portfolio of complete, silicon-proven interface IP. In addition, Synopsys hybrid technology combines the use of a virtual model running on a host server connected to an HAV system. Synopsys Virtualizer™ now supports multi-threading technology. This advanced technology significantly accelerates software bring-up processes, such as enabling a full Android boot in less than 10 minutes. Availability & Additional Resources The Synopsys HAPS-200 prototyping system is available now. The Synopsys ZeBu-200 emulation system is available now for early access customers. Industry Support for Synopsys HAV Portfolio Expansion Product Page: Synopsys HAV Solutions Family Blog: Synopsys HAPS-200 and ZeBu-200 Expand the Industry's Highest Performance Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio Video: Unveiling Next-Gen HAPS Prototyping & ZeBu Emulation Hardware-Assisted Verification Solutions About SynopsysCatalyzing the era of pervasive intelligence, Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) delivers trusted and comprehensive silicon to systems design solutions, from electronic design automation to silicon IP and system verification and validation. We partner closely with semiconductor and systems customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow. Learn more at AMD, UltraScale+, Versal, Virtex, and combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. *Based on AMD internal analysis in May 2023 with a 6-input LUT count to compare the Versal Premium VP1902 device versus competitor offerings. Editorial Contact Kelli Wheeler Synopsys, Inc. corp-pr@ View original content to download multimedia: SOURCE Synopsys, Inc. Sign in to access your portfolio
