Make Your Interface Work for Your AI SoC—A 10 Step Program: Using Hardware-Assisted Verification

As AI-driven SoCs and multi-die systems push the limits of bandwidth, latency, and interoperability, verification teams must move beyond traditional simulation to validate increasingly complex software and hardware interactions. This white paper explores how hardware-assisted verification technologies help accelerate system validation, improve software readiness, and uncover critical interface issues earlier in the development cycle. 

Learn how Synopsys hardware-assisted verification solutions, including Transactors, Virtual System Adaptors (VSAs), PHY Models, Speed Adaptors, and Interface Prototyping Kits (IPKs), enable a seamless path from protocol verification to real-world system validation and compliance readiness. Discover how these technologies reduce silicon risk, improve verification productivity, and help teams achieve confidence in AI-scale systems before tape-out. 

What You Will Learn

• How transactors accelerate system-level verification by enabling software-driven workloads and delivering orders-of-magnitude faster execution than simulation.  

• How Virtual System Adaptors (VSAs) bridge hardware verification and software development to support early driver, firmware, and application validation. 

• How PHY Models and Speed Adaptors extend pre-silicon verification into physical-layer validation, interoperability testing, and real-world workload execution. 

• How Interface Prototyping Kits (IPKs) enable at-speed validation, standards compliance, and ecosystem readiness before silicon is available.