Developing a first-generation AI SoC requires hardware, software, and system validation teams to move in parallel long before silicon is available. LiXiang presents how they leveraged Synopsys Virtualizer to build a comprehensive Synopsys Virtualizer Development Kit (VDK) that enabled software shift-left, accelerated verification, resolved more than 1,000 defects pre-silicon, and helped achieve first-pass silicon success while reducing vehicle deployment timelines to just 12 months.
What You Will Learn
- How Li Auto enabled full-stack software shift-left development using a VDK that integrated more than 50 IPs and supported software development and system validation before silicon availability.
- How virtual platforms improve quality and reduce risk by enabling early workload validation, advanced debugging, defect discovery, and seamless migration from virtual prototyping to emulation and silicon.
- How Virtualizer accelerates AI SoC and vehicle programs by supporting parallel hardware-software development, maximizing test reuse, reducing validation costs, and shortening vehicle deployment schedules by 6 to 12 months.