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Overview
Synopsys's system-level solutions offer a versatile portfolio of system-level design tools, models and services to address algorithm design and analysis, as well as Virtual Platform-based architecture design, software integration and system validation. This portfolio accelerates the development of platform-based systems and SOC-based products and can realize up to a 12 month time-to-market reduction.
Challenges
The dramatic increase in hardware and software complexity of today's SOC-based products creates a new challenge for hardware/software integration. If not properly addressed, integration problems are likely to cause significant product delays and reduce profit margins, especially for short market window products such as mobile phones and consumer products. The result is the need to develop software early, integrate software and hardware continuously, and validate the complete system before hardware is available. In addition, the growing complexity and content of signal processing algorithms in these SOCs require the careful implementation of these algorithms to optimize power, performance and cost.
- Integrated Solution
- Synopsys' system-level solutions provide the following benefits:
- The broadest portfolio of abstract models for building Virtual Platforms.
- Tools that integrate algorithm models into Virtual Platforms for early software verification.
- A unified system-to-RTL verification environment to ensure the models at all levels of abstraction (system, architecture and RTL) stay consistent, resulting in a predictable, concurrent hardware and software development flow.
- Solution Components
- Largest Portfolio of Transaction-level Models
- The DesignWare System-Level Library is a collection of high-performance transaction-level models (TLMs) for building virtual platforms. Virtual Platforms provide software engineers with high-speed software execution environments that allow development of SOC-related software before hardware is available. The Library includes TLM's of ARM processors, DesignWare Cores, and DesignWare AMBA components as well as pre-assembled reference platforms. These models are written in SystemC to work in any IEEE 1666 compliant SystemC simulator, including Synopsys' Innovator.
- Comprehensive System-level Tools
- Innovator is a powerful fully integrated development environment (IDE) for developing, debugging and running Virtual Platforms at multiple levels of abstraction It has full SystemC support.
- System Studio is a versatile system-level design environment focused on algorithms design and analysis. Its advanced data flow modeling and the industry's fastest simulation enable the specification and optimization of even the most complex signal processing algorithms. Algorithm models developed with System Studio can easily be integrated into Innovator to become part of a Virtual Platform. Algorithm models can easily be integrated into VCS to become part of an advanced verification setup.
- Services and Training
- Synopsys' provides expert system-level services to help you:
- Develop new and/or custom TLMs
- Assemble, customize and test virtual platforms using TLMs and Innovator
- Establish a robust methodology for virtual platform development and train your engineers on the flow
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