Synopsys Launches High-capacity FPGA-based Prototyping Solution

Synopsys Inc.'s HAPS-600 series of FPGA-based prototyping systems extends FPGA-based prototyping capacity up to 81 million ASIC gates equivalent, enabling early software development for larger SoC projects. Like the HAPS-60 products, the HAPS-600 series is based on Xilinx Virtex-6 LX760 FPGA devices and offers performance up to 200MHz.

The HAPS family provides an integrated and scalable hardware plus software solution that is used by hardware and software design teams to develop software, verify SoC hardware and enable hardware/software integration before tape-out. Designers can reduce initial turnaround times and subsequent iterations with the HAPS-600 series' highly automated software flow from ASIC RTL code to the FPGA-based prototype utilizing Synopsys' patented programmable switch routing technology.

Like the HAPS-60 series, the HAPS-600 series includes native integration of the Universal Multi-Resource Bus (UMRBus) which allows users to ease system bring-up with co-simulation capabilities. The UMRBus also accelerates system-level verification with SCE-MI 2.0 transaction-based verification and provides links to Synopsys' virtual prototyping solution. In addition, the HAPS-600 series offers enhanced design visibility reducing debug time as well as remote prototype management improving productivity for globally distributed teams. Design teams also benefit from the HAPS-600 series' support of Synopsys' DesignWare IP, which ensures that the same IP code used in the design is also available within the FPGA-based prototype.

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