"Synopsys’ fast delivery and high quality Virtual Prototype also saved us development costs and reduced the integration risk as we introduced our PXA3xx application processor to the highly competitive handheld and consumer markets."
     Sam Arditi, senior vice president, Marvell Cellular and Handheld Group

Why Design Using Virtual Prototypes at the System-Level?
The world's most successful electronics product and device manufacturers are rapidly moving to system-level based design methods. They are finding this is the only way to manage burgeoning complexity and increasing cost of electronic hardware and embedded software in today's products. Most of these companies are choosing Synopsys’ tools, models and methods to implement their move to system-level design.

Why Use Synopsys System-Level Consulting Services?
Moving to the system-level is not a trivial undertaking. Similar to any new technology, there may be the need to invest in new tools, new design flows, and new design skills--all this requires training your engineers. Synopsys’ services team knows how to match your necessary use cases with the optimal modeling strategy so the performance and reuse are maximized. Our documented flows and methodologies are as a result of helping over 100 customers implement our technology. Synopsys collaborative approach ensures rapid knowledge transfer.

Which services do our experts provide to your design teams?
Model Creation
The development of new or customer-specific transaction-level models not currently available is a key ingredient of delivering high-performance, customized virtual prototypes. This includes consulting on the development of complex processor models.

Virtual Prototype Assembly/Customization
Synopsys will assist with the assembly of TLMs into a new virtual prototype representing your specific embedded system, or the customization of a pre-existing prototype to represent the latest design intent. Virtual prototypes are more than a collection of models; their creation requires system-level understanding and knowledge of tools for developing and executing virtual prototypes. With over 200 complex virtual prototypes developed to date, Synopsys is uniquely qualified to help you integrate, debug, and test your virtual prototype while we transfer knowledge to your team.

System-Level Methodology Consulting
Synopsys experts deliver consulting and training on virtual prototype tools and methodologies to accelerate your team's learning curve and system-level modeling productivity.

Below are examples of virtual prototypes developed by Synopsys for customers:

Vendor	Architecture	Virtual Prototype	Description
ARM		VPAI	The VPAI virtual prototype models the ARM Integrator/AP prototyping board. This virtual prototype is now part of the DesignWare System-Level Library.
Freescale	i.MX31	VPMX31	The VPMX31 virtual prototype simulates the Freescale i.MX31 and i.MX31L multimedia applications processor and Application Development System (ADS).
Marvell	PXA	VPXA3	The VPXA3 virtual prototype is a high performance software simulator of the Marvell PXA3xx next generation applications processor
Texas Instruments	OMAP	VPOM-3430	The VPOM-3430 virtual prototype is a high-performance software simulator of the TI OMAP3430 Software Development Platform is the first member of the TI OMAP 3 architecture, which combines mobile entertainment capabilities with high-performance productivity applications for building new classes of devices.
		VPOM-2430	The VPOM-2430 virtual prototype is a high-performance software simulator of the TI OMAP2430 Software Development Platform for advanced mobile phone video and imaging.
		VPOM-2420	The VPOM-2420 virtual prototype is a high-performance software emulator of the TI OMAP2420 Software Development Platform.
		VPOM-1610	The VPOM-1610 virtual prototype is a fast, full function software emulator of the TI Innovator. Kit for OMAP1610 Platform.
		VPOM-1510	The VPOM-1510 virtual prototype is a fast, full function software emulator of the TI Innovator. Kit for OMAP1510 Platform.