The HAPS-200 prototyping and ZeBu-200 emulation systems are intended to deliver improved runtime performance, better compile time and improved debug productivity and have been built on new Synopsys Emulation and Prototyping (EP-Ready) Hardware that enables emulation and prototyping use cases via reconfiguration and optimised software.
The ZeBu Server 5 has been enhanced to deliver scalability beyond 60 billion gates (BG) to address the escalating hardware and software complexity in SoC and multi-die designs.
"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. "Our new systems deliver the highest HAV performance while offering the ultimate flexibility between prototyping and emulation use."
The Synopsys HAPS-200 prototyping system offers improved 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.
Commenting on the launch Narendra Konda, vice president, Hardware Engineering at NVIDIA, said, “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."
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 platform supports cables and hubs for direct and scalable connectivity and users can leverage the broad portfolio of solutions for leading interface protocols through the transactors and speed adaptors.
Already in use with customers leveraging HAPS prototyping, Synopsys extends its methodology of "Modular HAV" to ZeBu Server 5, growing its 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 utilises 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 significantly accelerating 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 as is the Synopsys ZeBu-200 emulation system for early access customers.
