The Synopsys System Prototyping Luncheon is a forum for members of the electronic design community to get the latest information on solutions and methodologies for accelerating the design and verification of SoC designs.
Gary Meyers, VP and General Manager, Synplicity Business Group, Synopsys -- Chuck Cruse, Staff IC Design Engineer, LSI Inc. -- Dejan Markovic, Assistant Professor UCLA Electrical Engineering Department.

With the increase of software content in SOCs, completion of software development and its verification are becoming the biggest expense and critical path to product release. This creates an intense pressure to begin productive software development and verification prior to silicon availability. In this video, filmed during the DVCon 2009 Conference, Ken McElvain reviews the different pre-silicon prototypes that have emerged to support early software development with virtual platforms and hardware prototypes. The SOC software development tasks are outlined with a focus on how the prototypes produced by the hardware team can be enhanced to improve software development productivity and also generate valuable information to validate architecture decisions.
Ken McElvain

Almost everybody is doing it, yet Rapid Prototyping with FPGAs is still viewed as an ad-hoc, assembly required methodology. Because of the size and complexity of today’s ASIC products, prototyping boards must contain multiple FPGAs and many interfaces. This complexity means it is no longer feasible for most design teams to continue building prototyping boards in-house. Join Synopsys for this short webcast and learn how off-the-shelf Rapid Prototyping boards can lower cost, reduce risk and improve your competitiveness.
Juergen Jaeger

In this TechFocus Media Chalk Talk, Amelia Dalton, TechFocus Media and Juergen Jaeger, Director Product Marketing at Synopsys, discuss the challenges associated with verification of today’s complex ASIC Designs. They discuss how the Confirma platform, a suite of tightly integrated, easy to use products for rapid prototyping, can help design teams to find even the hardest-to-find hardware bugs, start software development earlier in the design cycle and integrate hardware and software well ahead of chip fabrication.
Speaker: Juergen Jaeger, Director Product Marketing