Synplicity Inc., a leading supplier of software for the design and verification of semiconductors, will underscore the company's commitment to the fast growing, high-performance ASIC/ASSP verification and FPGA-based prototyping market at this year's Design Automation Conference (DAC) in San Diego, June 4 - 8.
Industry Panel--ASIC VerificationOf particular interest to ASIC/ASSP users will be a panel on how industry and customers are addressing today and tomorrow's verification challenges. Moderated by Gary Smith, the industry's preeminent EDA analyst, the event will feature panelists from HARDI Electronics, prototyping users, Synplicity and Synopsys.
Despite new verification methodologies, such as assertion-based verification, random-constraint verification, dynamic formal verification, etc., designer productivity continues to depend on the raw performance of verification tools. At the implementation level, the highest performance is provided by FPGA-based prototypes. Until now, such prototypes lacked a productive and elegant software environment to allow users to take advantage of this speed. Thus, there's a productivity gap.
Industry panelists will debate and offer insight on how, and if, FPGA-based prototyping will need to evolve to solve the rising verification crisis. Another issue is if FPGA-based prototyping will emerge as THE standard for high-performance verification.
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