MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.,
Feb. 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --
Highlights:
- Industry's first SoC power-aware emulation system for
multi-billion gate designs enables hardware-software power
verification with software workloads
- The industry's fastest emulation system – with high performance
power verification engines – enables multiple iterations per day
- ZeBu Empower feeds power critical blocks and time windows into
PrimePower, the industry's golden power sign-off solution
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the immediate
availability of ZeBu® Empower emulation system,
delivering breakthrough technology for fast hardware-software power
verification of multi-billion gate SoC designs. The performance of
ZeBu Empower enables multiple iterations per day with actionable
power profiling in the context of the full design and its software
workload. With ZeBu Empower, software and hardware
designers can utilize the power profiles to identify
substantial power improvement opportunities for dynamic and leakage
power much earlier. The ZeBu Empower emulation system also feeds
forward power-critical blocks and time windows into Synopsys'
PrimePower engine to accelerate RTL power analysis and gate-level
power sign-off.
Customer Commentary:
- "As high-performance designs and workloads continue to grow in
complexity, achieving leadership performance within a thermal
envelope is important for our products," said Alex Starr, Corporate Fellow, Technology and
Engineering at AMD. "Solutions that allow us to efficiently profile
power consumption across real workloads in a pre-silicon
environment help us achieve our product goals. Synopsys' ZeBu
Empower, operating in collaboration with servers using 2nd Gen
AMD EPYCTM processors,
has enabled us to perform pre-silicon power analysis more
efficiently in a quicker time."
- "For AI and machine learning solutions to scale in adoption,
the overall goal is to optimize for the lowest power while
delivering the highest processing throughput," said Krishna
Rangasayee, Founder and CEO at SiMa.ai. "We are extending our
continued collaboration with Synopsys by using their ZeBu Empower
emulation system with complex software workloads running on our
purpose-built MLSoC™ architecture. ZeBu Empower's
impressive performance provides our design teams with a global
perspective on power, leading them to the key areas for
optimization."
Traditionally, power analysis with realistic software workloads
is performed post-silicon, introducing a high amount of risk to
miss critical high-power situations, which exposes companies to
significant cost and product adoption risk. By taking advantage of
high-speed emulation in ZeBu Empower, design teams can perform
verification earlier in the design cycle, dramatically reducing
risks of power bugs and missed SoC power goals.
"The industry's need to shift-left software development from
post-silicon to pre-silicon has driven tremendous adoption of our
ZeBu Server over the last five years," said Manoj Gandhi, general manager of the
Verification Group at Synopsys. "Our breakthrough technology in
ZeBu Empower addressees our customers' need for hardware-software
power verification enabling them to develop a new generation of
power optimized SoCs."
Synopsys offers a comprehensive solution for low power design
and verification, including RTL-based early power exploration to
the industry's golden power signoff; from early static verification
to emulation-based hardware-software power verification. Synopsys'
innovative low power solutions are deployed across some of the most
demanding designs, globally.
Availability
The Synopsys ZeBu Empower emulation system for hardware-software
power verification solution is available now.
About Synopsys
Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the Silicon to Software™
partner for innovative companies developing the electronic products
and software applications we rely on every day. As an S&P 500
company, Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in
electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and offers
the industry's broadest portfolio of application security testing
tools and services. Whether you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer
creating advanced semiconductors, or a software developer writing
more secure, high-quality code, Synopsys has the solutions needed
to deliver innovative products. Learn more
at www.synopsys.com.
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Inc.
Editorial Contacts:
Simone Souza
Synopsys, Inc.
650-584-6454
simone@synopsys.com
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