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 Synopsys
Catalyzing 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 www.synopsys.com.
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@synopsys.com
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