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SiMa.ai Secures Funds and Readies New Generative Edge AI Platform

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

With the release of the second-generation MLSoC, SiMa.ai will unveil one software-centric platform for all edge AI .

Key Points: 
  • With the release of the second-generation MLSoC, SiMa.ai will unveil one software-centric platform for all edge AI .
  • SiMa.ai’s ‘one platform for all edge AI’ scales with customers as their AI/ML journey evolves, from computer vision, to transformers to multimodal generative AI.
  • “AI — particularly the rapid rise of generative AI — is fundamentally reshaping the way that humans and machines work together.
  • For more information on SiMa.ai’s one software-centric platform for all edge AI, please read The Next Chapter at SiMa.ai: One Platform for All Edge AI on the SiMa.ai blog.

Synopsys Introduces the Industry's First Emulation System with Unmatched Capacity to Enable Electronics Digital Twins of Advanced SoCs

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Thursday, April 13, 2023

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 13, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Addressing the software bring-up, power optimization and debug challenges of complex billion-gate and multi-die systems, Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today launched the Synopsys ZeBu® Server 5 emulation system. Compared to the previous generation ZeBu system, Synopsys ZeBu Server 5 supports 1.6x greater capacity while delivering 2x higher throughput and 2x better emulation performance with less than half of the power consumption.

Key Points: 
  • Compared to the previous generation ZeBu system, Synopsys ZeBu Server 5 supports 1.6x greater capacity while delivering 2x higher throughput and 2x better emulation performance with less than half of the power consumption.
  • "Getting these products right means thoroughly testing the software running on your chip for over tens of billions of cycles on an emulation system before production.
  • Digital twins play an important role, providing a digital replica of an electronics system used throughout the product lifecycle for software bring-up, power analysis and SW/HW validation.
  • The additional horsepower of Synopsys ZeBu Server 5 will advance electronics digital twin capabilities, enabling designers to speed up development of production-ready silicon.

Synopsys Unveils Industry's First Unified Emulation and Prototyping System Addressing Verification Requirements Across the Chip Development Cycle

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Delivering new levels of performance and flexibility for SoC verification and early software development, Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the industry's first unified hardware system for emulation and prototyping based on the Synopsys ZeBu® EP1 emulation system. By adding prototyping functionality to Synopsys ZeBu EP1, the industry's fastest billion-gates emulation system, customers can take advantage of a single verification hardware system throughout their chip development lifecycle.

Key Points: 
  • MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Sept. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Delivering new levels of performance and flexibility for SoC verification and early software development, Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS ) today announced the industry's first unified hardware system for emulation and prototyping based on the Synopsys ZeBu EP1 emulation system .
  • By adding prototyping functionality to Synopsys ZeBu EP1, the industry's fastest billion-gates emulation system, customers can take advantage of a single verification hardware system throughout their chip development lifecycle.
  • "The Synopsys ZeBu EP1 system represents a major innovation in verification hardware by providing a single system supporting both emulation and prototyping with higher performance and faster emulation compile time.
  • However, it has been challenging for chip and system development teams to determine upfront the optimal balance of emulation and prototyping hardware capacity.

Synopsys Accelerates Multi-Die Designs with Industry's First Complete HBM3 IP and Verification Solutions

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Thursday, October 7, 2021

The Synopsys verification solution, including Verification IP with built-in coverage and verification plans, off-the-shelf HBM3 memory models for ZeBu emulation , and HAPS prototyping system , accelerates verification from HBM3 IP to SoCs.

Key Points: 
  • The Synopsys verification solution, including Verification IP with built-in coverage and verification plans, off-the-shelf HBM3 memory models for ZeBu emulation , and HAPS prototyping system , accelerates verification from HBM3 IP to SoCs.
  • "The complete HBM3 IP and verification solutions enable designers to meet increasing bandwidth, latency and power requirements while accelerating verification closure, all from a single, trusted provider."
  • To accelerate prototyping, software development and integration of IP into SoCs, Synopsys' IP Accelerated initiative offers IP prototyping kits, IP software development kits and IP subsystems.
  • "Our recent collaboration with Synopsys, leveraging Synopsys' HBM2E IP on 5-nm process and integrated full-system multi-die design platform, will extend to include the new DesignWare HBM3 IP and verification solutions.

Spirent and Synopsys Collaborate to Accelerate the Silicon Development Time-to-Market

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Wednesday, September 1, 2021

The Spirent Chip Design Verification Solution speeds up the entire silicon development lifecycle and delivers significant cost savings by identifying and addressing issues in the IC design phase and before manufacturing starts.

Key Points: 
  • The Spirent Chip Design Verification Solution speeds up the entire silicon development lifecycle and delivers significant cost savings by identifying and addressing issues in the IC design phase and before manufacturing starts.
  • It is tightly integrated with Synopsys ZeBu Server, a leading emulation system, enabling pre-silicon SoC validation from 1G to 800G.
  • Customers are able to simplify test complexity, reduce development time and assure that new products perform as expected.
  • Were excited to collaborate with Spirent to deliver innovative and comprehensive virtual test solutions based on the high performance of ZeBu emulation systems and the Spirent TestCenter platform to perform pre- to post-silicon validation.

Synopsys Announces Software-driven SoC Power Analysis Solution, Enabling 1000X Faster Time-to-Results

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Thursday, May 23, 2019

ZeBu Power Analyzer extends the ZeBu Server 4 emulation system with novel, multi-threaded power analysis engines supporting RTL and gate-level flows

Key Points: 
  • ZeBu Power Analyzer extends the ZeBu Server 4 emulation system with novel, multi-threaded power analysis engines supporting RTL and gate-level flows
    Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq:SNPS) today announced its ZeBu Power Analyzer solution for software-driven system-on-chip (SoC) power analysis delivering results 1,000 times faster than traditional simulation-based methods.
  • ZeBu Power Analyzer greatly reduces the risk of missing critical power issues by enabling use of realistic software workloads rather than synthetic scenarios.
  • ZeBu Power Analyzer integrates with the Synopsys PrimePower power signoff flow, enabling design teams to efficiently and accurately pinpoint and fix power issues.
  • ZeBu Power Analyzer's software-driven power analysis lets us optimize critical components, such as GPUs, using realistic software workloads to achieve results that are a few thousand times faster than traditional power analysis flows."

Synopsys Unveils Next-Generation ZeBu Server 4

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Monday, June 18, 2018

ZeBu Server 4 offers 5X lower power consumption with half the datacenter footprint, delivering the industry's lowest cost of ownership.

Key Points: 
  • ZeBu Server 4 offers 5X lower power consumption with half the datacenter footprint, delivering the industry's lowest cost of ownership.
  • In addition, ZeBu Server 4 delivers software innovation for faster compile, advanced debug, power analysis, simulation acceleration, and hybrid emulation.
  • "Synopsys ZeBu Server 4 delivers the multi-megahertz performance and software innovation needed to compile and debug multiple turns per day that enables efficient verification, earlier software verification, and aggressive time-to-market schedules."
  • We will continue our deep collaboration with Synopsys to deliver future innovations like the ZeBu Server 4 to the emulation market."