Synopsys Expands Hardware-Assisted Verification Portfolio to Propel Next-Generation Semiconductor and Design Innovation

Synopsys announced the expansion of its 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, the company says.

They are built on new Synopsys Emulation and Prototyping (EP-Ready) Hardware that optimizes customer ROI by enabling emulation and prototyping use cases via reconfiguration and optimized software. ZeBu Server 5 has been 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. 

“With up to 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, these platforms 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.”

The Synopsys HAPS-200 prototyping system offers industry-leading runtime performance and faster compile with 4X improved debug performance over HAPS-100, according to the company. 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 vs. the previous generation ZeBu EP2 with faster compile time. According to the company, 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.”

The HAPS-200 and ZeBu-200 systems are built on the Synopsys EP-Ready Hardware platform, which 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.”

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, which accelerates software bring-up processes, such as enabling a full Android boot in less than 10 minutes.

The Synopsys HAPS-200 prototyping system is available now. The Synopsys ZeBu-200 emulation system is available now for early access customers.

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