For verification of low-power chips, ZeBu supports IEEE 1801 Unified Power Format (UPF) descriptions for accurate modeling of advanced low-power design constructs and power-aware waveform viewing in Verdi 3. ZeBu Server-3 supports a wide range of use modes including power management verification, simulation acceleration, embedded testbench, in-circuit emulation (ICE), TBV and hybrid emulation with virtual prototypes to maximize flexibility across chip development teams with varying requirements. Support for Advanced Verification Use Modes ZeBu's powerful Post Run Debug mode eliminates the constraint of relatively short logic analyzer trace windows, enabling the user to rerun and analyze any scenario deterministically – even scenarios embedded in multi-billion cycle tests – without recompiling the design.
ZeBu's interactive Combinatorial Signal Access (iCSA) technology enables users to begin debug with full visibility using Verdi 3 in minutes, rather than in the hours typical of traditional emulation waveform generators. Using ZeBu's integration with the popular Synopsys Verdi 3 debug system, users can now quickly analyze waveforms, perform transaction-level debug and access the same powerful debug environment they are familiar with for simulation. ZeBu Server-3 offers simulation-like debug capabilities, including full signal visibility and deterministic rerun, and debug of multi-billion cycle system-level test sequences.
ZeBu's portfolio of modeling transactors coupled with Verdi 3 integration for the debug of our long test scenarios allows us to meet our accelerated software development and validation cycles."Ĭomprehensive Debug with Full Signal Visibility That level of design clock performance was achieved with the Synopsys ZeBu Server-3 emulation system. "To create and verify this software framework, our teams need an emulation platform with multi-megahertz performance. "Our networking QorIQ® SoCs with the revolutionary Layerscape™ architecture are designed with a standard, open programming model and a software-aware architecture framework that enables customers to fully exploit the underlying hardware," said Raja Tabet, vice president, Software and Solutions Technology for Freescale Semiconductor's Digital Networking Business. In addition, its low total cost of ownership can enable us to easily scale up to larger installations." "We are deploying ZeBu Server-3 for our next-generation CPU subsystem verification because ZeBu's industry-leading emulation performance can help significantly shorten our verification time.
"Advanced multi-core CPU subsystem designs must run huge amounts of software for verification, representing many billions of cycles of testing prior to release," said Charles Matar, Corporate Vice-President, Client SOC Design, at AMD. ZeBu Server-3 offers the industry's largest design capacity, supporting chips as big as three billion gates with a highly scalable architecture based on high-density 28-nanometer (nm) FPGA technology. Because of its small footprint, low weight, modest power/cooling requirements and high reliability, ZeBu Server-3 offers lower total cost of ownership of any commercial emulator. It provides multiple verification use modes, including power-aware emulation, simulation acceleration, in-circuit emulation, synthesizable testbench, transaction-based verification (TBV) and hybrid emulation for deployment flexibility based on project requirements. With its comprehensive debug capabilities, automated software and tight integration with leading verification and system level tool flows, ZeBu Server-3 delivers a highly productive environment for complex SoC verification. This performance level enables system-on-chip (SoC) development teams to speed hardware/software bring-up, OS boot and full-chip verification for faster time-to-market. The Synopsys ZeBu Server-3 builds on the proven ZeBu Server architecture to improve performance by up to 4X and boost capacity by 3X. (Nasdaq:SNPS), a global leader providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, today announced the availability of ZeBu® Server-3, the industry's fastest emulation system. ZeBu Server-3 speeds hardware-software bring-up, OS boot and SoC verification by up to 4X for faster time-to-market on even the largest designs