Streamlined software verification
28 May 2010
A new rapid prototyping system has been launched by Synopsys that shortens development time by allowing concurrent software and hardware verification, rather than the traditional approach of only being able to verify software after the hardware had been completed.
The HAPS-60 series is a comprehensive solution that eases complex SoC design and verification challenges. It is part of the Confirma Rapid Prototyping Platform - an easy-to-use and cost-effective rapid prototyping system that enables early hardware/software co-verification and system-level integration at near-real-time runrates, using at-speed, real-world interfaces.
HAPS-60 is built with the latest Xilinx Virtex-6 devices, and was designed using its predecessor, the HAPS 50.
“Virtex-6 FPGAs provide the industry-leading performance and logic capacity that enables the HAPS-60 series to meet today’s SoC verification needs,” said Mustafa Veziroglu, Vice President, product solutions and management at Xilinx. “The combination of the high-performance Virtex-6 devices and the new features and advanced verification functionality available in the new HAPS-60 series provides designers with an industryleading solution for rapid prototyping.”
Achieving clock frequencies of up to 200MHz, the HAPS-60 series supports applications requiring real-time interfaces such as video, cellular data or live network traffic. The HAPS-60 series, which runs up to 30% faster than previous generations of HAPS products, incorporates performance enhancing technologies that are not available on other solutions.
The flexible architecture of HAPS systems, combined with advanced high-capacity partitioning software and new automated highspeed Time Division Multiplexing (HSTDM), allow the HAPS-60 series to achieve greater capacities than other prototyping systems. A single HAPS board can support designs up to 18M ASIC gates (more than double the capacity of the previous generation), and multiple boards can be connected together for higher capacity.
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