Synopsys ZeBu® emulation systems deliver the performance needed to make verification teams and software developers working on the most advanced chips successful. ZeBu emulation systems are modular, allowing users to deploy the capacity needed in a scalable and easily extensible fashion.
The Synopsys ZeBu® Server 5 emulation system delivers 2X the emulation performance and 2x higher throughput compared to its predecessor, to enable SoC verification and software bring-up, and to address the exploding verification requirements of automotive, 5G, networking, artificial intelligence, and datacenter SoCs.
While extending design capacity to up to 15.4 BG, the Synopsys ZeBu-200 emulation system also offers up to 2X higher runtime performance vs. the previous generation ZeBu EP2 with faster compile time, reducing turnaround time and enhancing development productivity.
Synopsys ZeBu EP is a scalable unified hardware platform for emulation and prototyping. It has high performance and capacity scaling to validate long software workloads for billion+ gate designs.
"With the increasing market requirements for handling large AI computational data sets driving the need for enormous GPU and CPU computational power, the development time for NVIDIA’s next generation AI systems have become highly compressed to a yearly release cycle, necessitating best-in-class prototyping solutions. Synopsys HAPS-200 offers the fastest prototyping speed in the industry. The 50 MHz performance we have been able to achieve with HAPS-200 has been key to boosting productivity of our software development teams. We are looking forward to scaling our HAPS-200 deployment to take full advantage for our software development teams."
Narendra Konda
|Vice President, Hardware Engineering, NVIDIA
"The future of emulation and prototyping demands unprecedented performance, adaptability, and scalability. By integrating the AMD Versal Premium VP1902 adaptive SoC, with its industry-leading capacity*, performance, and debug capabilities, into Synopsys' EP-Ready platforms we're not only improving performance metrics, we're also transforming how engineering teams can validate and optimize their most ambitious new ASIC and SoC designs. Our longstanding partnership with Synopsys empowers design teams to tackle their most complex verification challenges, from AI/ML workloads to multi-die architectures, while dramatically accelerating time to market."
Salil Raje
|Sr Vice President and General Manager, Adaptive and Embedded Computing Group, AMD
*Based on AMD internal analysis in May 2023 with a 6-input LUT count to compare the Versal Premium VP1902 device versus competitor offerings.
"Synopsys is a key member of Arm Total Design, bringing critical tools and the advanced HAV capabilities to quickly and reliably validate solutions built on Arm Compute Subsystems (CSS). The new ZeBu-200 and HAPS-200 hardware platforms will also assist our mutual customers in integrating Arm CSS into their designs with improved turnaround times to meet the demanding requirements for complex data center infrastructure and automotive systems."
Kevork Kechichian
|Executive Vice President, Solutions Engineering, Arm
"Extending the modular HAV capabilities to the ZeBu Server 5 platform provides a scalable emulation roadmap to address the complexity challenges of validating AMD’s largest next-generation devices."
Alex Starr
|Corporate Fellow, AMD
"SiFive has a very large and configurable portfolio of RISC-V CPU and AI core IP. We extensively test our IP using software workloads on HAPS, which means we can run trillions of cycles per day. As next generation CPUs and AI cores become larger and more complex, we need to efficiently map them onto larger and more powerful FPGAs. With its EP-Ready hardware HAPS-200 offers us an FPGA platform to do full system emulation for reference platforms that scale from small microcontrollers all the way to large scale data center designs."
Albert Huntington
|Vice President, Platform Engineering, SiFive
"AMD has used ZeBu EP solutions for fast emulation with software workloads for a number of years. The EP-ready Hardware concept has allowed us to switch on demand, as a design matures, to a prototyping use case and significantly increase workload throughput. ZeBu-200 and HAPS-200 EP-Ready systems will enable further performance improvements to accelerate design verification and software validation."
Alex Starr
|Corporate Fellow, AMD