DesignWare VPXA3 Virtual Platform for Marvell PXA3xx XScale - Synopsys

Synopsys announced the availability of the DesignWare VPXA3 Virtual Platform. The Virtual Platforms improve design quality and shorten time-to-market by allowing the software team to start software development up to nine months before the silicon prototype is available. DesignWare VPXA3 Virtual Platform is targeted for development of handheld and consumer electronics devices that use Marvell PXA3xx XScale application processors.  

Sam Arditi, Marvell Cellular and Handheld Group, said:

We turned to Synopsys to help us improve our system integration and validation. Synopsys Virtual Platform methodologies allowed our software engineers to begin development using functional hardware models…

This helped us shorten time-to-volume. Synopsys’ fast delivery and high quality Virtual Platform also saved us development costs and reduced the integration risk as we introduced our PXA3xx application processor to the highly competitive handheld and consumer markets…

The VPXA3 Virtual Platform provides designer a  pre-silicon software execution environment that allows the development of SoC related software before hardware is available. The Virtual Platform technology enables the creation of a software model of a complete system that fully mirrors the functionality of a complex, multicore hardware platform.

Synopsys also provides the complete hardware/software development and validation environment for designers using the Marvell PXA application processors. Engineers at Marvell used the VPXA3 Virtual Platform for pre- and post-silicon software development, hardware/software integration, and system validation.

The Marvell PXA3xx application processors is designed for smartphones, handsets, wireless handhelds, GPS and other consumer electronics devices. The application processors deliver high-resolution VGA multimedia performance for advanced 3G video.

More info: Synopsys DesignWare VPXA3 Virtual Platform