ASIC and ASSP Verification - Confirma Platform - Synplicity

Synplicity unveiled the Confirma platform, an ASIC and ASSP verification solution. The Confirma platform offers brings together hardware and software tools, creating a tightly integrated, hardware-assisted verification solutionfor ASIC and ASSP verification process. The Confirma platform includes Synplicity's Certify tool for multi-FPGA partitioning and implementation; Identify Pro software with TotalRecall technology to prove visibility into the design under test; and, the HAPS (HARDI ASIC Prototyping System) FPGA-based prototyping hardware.

Juergen Jaeger, Synplicity, said:

Instead of thinking 'how can I reduce verification and cut corners to meet the product schedule', users can now start thinking 'what additional verification can I run to improve design and product quality'. Synplicity is uniquely positioned to address, for the first time, all the major steps needed to successfully leverage the performance of FPGA-based prototypes as a viable and productive ASIC and ASSP verification solution - f rom implementation to at-speed execution and debug of the design under test. The Confirma platform makes prototyping easy to use and highly productive…

Demand f rom ASIC and ASSP designers for considerably more verification horsepower and the availability of a new generation of high-density devices, make FPGA-based prototyping one of the fastest growing verification methodologies today. To date, however, designers are still challenged with piecing together their own solutions. The current choice involves selecting different hardware and software tools f rom various vendors, ensuring these tools are adequate to address a designer's particular verification needs, and finally, creating an ad-hoc flow for tool interoperability.

The three major components of the Confirma platform, as stand-alone tools, are already considered best-in-class: the Certify software takes an existing ASIC design and partitions it into multiple FPGAs; the HAPS prototyping boards are the hardware execution engine; and Identify Pro software, with its revolutionary TotalRecall technology, provides full visibility and a seamless interface into industry-standard software simulators for easy debugging. When used together, the tools provide the highest-performance ASIC and ASSP verification platform available today. In addition, the Confirma platform's modular and scalable architecture deploys prototypes as replicates, thus significantly reducing overall system verification time for software developers and systems integrators by enabling them to run actual software applications.

Further reading: Synplicity - Confirma Platform - ASIC and ASSP Verification