- New offering seamlessly combines next-generation virtual platform, hardware emulation, and FPGA prototyping technologies to help accelerate verification cycles
- Customer-Proven Veloce Family Extension Sets New Standard for Hardware-Assisted Verification
PLANO, Texas, March 26, 2021 / PRNewswire / – Siemens Digital Industries Software today unveiled its next-generation Veloce â„¢ hardware-assisted verification system for rapid verification of highly sophisticated next-generation integrated circuit (IC) designs. It is the first complete and integrated offering that combines the best virtual platform, hardware emulation and Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) prototyping technologies and paves the way for the exploitation of the latest powerful verification methodologies. hardware-assisted.
The new products of the Veloce hardware-assisted verification system are:
- Veloce HYCON (HYbrid CONfigurable) for verification based on virtual platform / software. Veloce HYCON provides innovative technology that enables customers to design and deploy complex hybrid emulation systems for their next generation system-on-chip (SoC) designs.
- Veloce Strato +, a capacity upgrade to the Veloce Strato hardware emulator. With a peak capacity roadmap that spans up to 15 billion doors, Veloce Strato + combines the industry’s highest total throughput with its fastest co-model bandwidth and visibility times.
- Veloce Primo for enterprise-level FPGA prototyping, an in-house developed enterprise prototyping solution that combines industry-leading runtime performance with exceptionally fast prototype set-up.
- Veloce proFPGA for desktop FPGA prototyping. With a modular approach to capacity, the Veloce proFPGA product family offers scalability across a range of capacity requirements.
This highly consistent system sets a new standard for the future direction of hardware-assisted verification methodologies. The system takes hardware, software and system verification to the next level of intelligent scanning by streamlining and optimizing verification cycles while helping to reduce verification costs.
This transparent approach to check cycle management emphasizes running market-specific workloads, frameworks and benchmarks early in the check cycle for power and performance analysis. This allows customer-built virtual SoC models early in the lifecycle and integration to start running real-world firmware and software on Veloce Strato + for deep visibility down to the lowest hardware level. Customers can then move the same design to Veloce Primo to validate the software / hardware interfaces and run the software at the application level while approaching actual system speeds. To make this approach as efficient as possible, Veloce Strato + and Veloce Primo use the same RTL, the same virtual verification environment, the same transactors and models to maximize the reuse of verification media, environment and test content. This is a necessary basis for a transparent methodology.
“As we enter the new semiconductor megacycle, the era of software-centric SoC design requires a radical change in functional verification systems to meet new requirements,†said Ravi Subramanian, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Siemens EDA. “The introduction of the next-generation Veloce system that addresses these key new requirements is a direct result of Siemens’ targeted investment to provide our customers with a complete and integrated system with a clear roadmap for the next decade. With today’s announcement, we are setting a new standard for a system capable of supporting new verification requirements in a diverse set of industries spanning computing and storage, AI / ML, 5G, networks and automotive. “
Keys to the extended hardware-assisted verification system Veloce
Innovation in chip, system and software design enables Veloce Strato + to meet the capacity roadmap released in 2017 with the launch of the Veloce Strato platform. The innovative design and manufacture of the Crystal 3+, a new proprietary 2.5D chip, increases system capacity 1.5 times over the previous Veloce Strato system. This innovation allows Veloce Strato + to be the leader in the emulation market with an available capacity of 15B doors. This capacity, which is the largest effective capacity available today, is now used by several Veloce Strato + customers.
“AMD uses Veloce emulation platforms as part of our pre-silicon verification and validation solutions,” said Alex starr, corporate fellow, methodological architect, AMD. “The high performance designs we create demand scalable, reliable and innovative emulation solutions. We are delighted to have worked with Siemens to initiate the deployment of the high-capacity Veloce Strato + system at AMD. In addition, we are delighted to see the 2nd and 3rd generations AMD EPYC â„¢ processors qualified for use with the Veloce Strato and Veloce Strato + platforms. The high-performance capabilities of both processor families bring new levels of productivity to the Veloce ecosystem and its customers like AMD. “
The Veloce Strato system also expands the list of qualified processors by adding the AMD EPYC â„¢ 7003 Series processor, effective today. These new processors are fully qualified to work with Veloce Strato systems as execution hosts and co-model hosts.
Veloce Primo and Veloce proFPGA represent the industry’s most powerful and versatile approach to FPGA prototyping. The enterprise-grade FPGA prototyping system, Veloce Primo, simultaneously delivers exceptional performance, with a capacity of up to 320 FPGAs and a work model consistent with Veloce Strato in terms of software workloads, design patterns and performance. front-end compilation technology. This fundamental alignment between emulation and prototyping helps reduce the cost of verification by leveraging the right tool for the task where emulation and prototyping work together as complementary solutions for best result in the shortest cycle. . Veloce Primo also supports virtual use (emulation offload) and in-circuit emulation (ICE) models for optimal performance while maintaining accurate clock ratios in both modes.
“Growing demand for IT across industries means time to market is critical,†said Tran Nguyen, Senior Director of Design Services, Arm. “Siemens’ Veloce Primo enterprise FPGA prototyping solution helps Arm quickly resolve design issues and meet verification goals so that our ecosystem can deliver quality Arm-based SoCs to support the rapid pace of business. innovation. “
“We are delighted to welcome Siemens to the FPGA prototyping market with the launch of Veloce Primo,†said Hanneke Krekels, Senior Director, Core Vertical Markets, at Xilinx. “Xilinx has a long-standing relationship with Siemens both as a customer and as a collaborative partner, and we are delighted to provide our recent and industry-leading Virtex UltraScale + VU19P device, enabling scalability and the ability to this new product offering. “
Veloce proFPGA brings a proven, world-class desktop platform to the Veloce hardware-assisted verification system (via OEM agreement with Pro Design). With a modular approach to capacity, the Veloce proFPGA product family offers scalability across a range of capacity requirements – from 40M doors to 800M gates – based on high-end FPGAs, including Intel Stratix 10 GX 10M and the Virtex UltraScale + VU19P device.
“The advanced technology of the proFPGA family offers many advantages for the validation of AI / ML, 5G and ASIC designs of today’s data centers,†said Gunnar scholl, CEO of Pro Design. “We are delighted to partner with Siemens. Our collective experience, knowledge and strategy for the desktop FPGA prototyping market is recognized, and we are excited to accelerate market penetration in this space through collaboration with Siemens.
Availablity
The complete Veloce hardware-assisted verification system is now available and used in production by major customers around the world.
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