Cloud native EDA tools & pre-optimized hardware platforms
Synopsys’ prototyping software tools provide engineers with design planning, logic synthesis, and debug, tools to address the largest system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Synopsys prototyping software is applied by hundreds of design teams worldwide to maximize productivity when using HAPS systems.
System validation or software development teams care about one thing: how quickly can they get all their development and validations tasks done, when they receive the prototype from the prototyping team. Their key concern is the performance of the prototype. Some software teams will refuse to touch the prototype and wait for silicon.
HAPS prototyping software helps the prototyping team to take a design and create the fastest performing implementation on the HAPS prototyping hardware. It does so by enabling the prototype to find both the optimum partitioning between the FPGAs and the best connectivity using the HapsTrak3 cable. After this is done the HAPS prototyping software will use its proven timing-driven synthesis engine to create the optimum prototype. It will handle complicated clocking structures and map them into a performance to optimized prototype.
HAPS ProtoCompiler delivers key features and benefits to address both rapid prototype bring-up and fast system performance:
For system level validation and prototype bring-up prototyping teams rely on the industry standard Verdi debug solution including proven data expansion from the captured debug state information, name correlation from the HAPS prototype image to the RTL design source data and the familiar waveform debug that enables RTL verification engineers and prototypers to jointly look the design and root cause errors quickly. This unified debug approach saves valuable time for the overall project schedule.
Figure 1: HAPS Prototyping Hardware/Software Flow
In conclusion, the Synopsys and HAPS Prototyping Software provide indispensable tools to maximize productivity and optimize prototype performance. They handle the most complex system-on-chip (SoC) designs, ensuring rapid prototype bring-up and fast system performance. Key features of the HAPS ProtoCompiler, such as parallel processing, runtime optimizations, and high-speed time-domain multiplexing, enable design teams to deliver operational HAPS systems swiftly. The software's compatibility with Arm AMBA transactor level interfaces and unified debugging approach further enhance implementation of hybrid prototypes and system validation, saving valuable time for overall project schedules.
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