Make Your Interface Work for Your AI SoC—A 10 Step Program: IP Solutions and Models

AI-driven SoCs are placing unprecedented demands on compute, memory, and connectivity, making interfaces such as PCIe, CXL, Ethernet, HBM, USB, and UFS critical to overall system performance and verification success. As software and hardware complexity continue to increase, development teams need verification strategies that span simulation, hardware-assisted verification, virtual prototyping, and silicon validation to reduce risk and accelerate time-to-market. 

This white paper examines how Synopsys Interface IP and Virtual Models help establish a foundation for comprehensive hardware-software verification and validation. Learn how proven IP, verification solutions, and virtual platforms enable earlier software development, improve interoperability, and streamline deployment of complex AI SoCs and multi-die systems. 

What You Will Learn

• Why Interface IP, PHY integration, and Verification IP are essential for achieving protocol compliance, interoperability, and reliable system integration. 

• How hardware-assisted verification using emulation and prototyping platforms helps uncover rare protocol issues, long-duration failures, and software-driven corner cases before silicon. 

• How virtual models and transaction-level platforms enable parallel hardware and software development, accelerating bring-up and reducing project risk.  

• Best practices for creating a continuous verification strategy that spans architectural exploration, software development, simulation, hardware-assisted verification, and post-silicon validation.