Synopsys extends Verification FastForward Program

31st January 2017

Synopsys Inc

Enaie Azambuja

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Synopsys announced it has extended its Verification FastForward Program to the latest 2017.03 release of its high-performance VCS functional verification solution. The program enables the users of Cadence Incisive and Mentor Graphics Questa tools to quickly migrate to VCS 2017.03. This latest VCS release delivers significant simulation performance gains for large SoC designs using native FGP and additional engine optimisations for existing x86 CPU server configurations.

In March 2016, Synopsys announced the patented VCS Cheetah technology that enables FGP in simulation by utilising many-core CPU architectures. With VCS 2017.03, this breakthrough technology as well as additional performance optimisations, have been integrated and are native to the simulation engines; therefore, no changes or disruption to the existing simulation flows are required.

The performance gains can be achieved on existing x86 CPU server platforms and further optimised for user-specific hardware configurations. All existing VCS features such as NLP, X-Propagation simulation, and Verdi® debug with parallel FSDB continue to work as before with no changes necessary to the design or testbenches. Furthermore, intelligent native FGP in VCS delivers the performance boost with minimal impact on compile time and memory usage.

Synopsys is hosting a webinar on February 21, 2017, to provide further technical details on VCS 2017.03 performance innovations, including the native fine-grained parallelism technology and its highly practical use model. Registration for this webinar is available at www.synopsys.com/VCS-FGP.

"The VCS functional verification solution has led the industry in simulation performance for more than 20 years," said Manoj Gandhi, executive vice president and general manager of the Verification Group at Synopsys.

"We are excited to once again deliver the next wave of simulation performance natively in VCS. We look forward to continued R&D collaborations with industry leaders to drive innovation in our Verification Continuum Platform."