Safety-critical products target range of markets

Synopsys' design solutions for the ARM Cortex-R52, which span optimised implementation, prototyping, software bring-up, hardware/software integration, system validation, functional safety verification and software integrity, accelerate design and certification of automotive, industrial and health care SoCs.

General Manager for CPU and media processing groups, ARM, James McNiven said: "Targeting a range of applications in the automotive, industrial and health care markets, the new ARM Cortex-R52 is our most advanced processor for functional safety.”

McNiven added: "Designers can take advantage of the extensive Synopsys design solution support to accelerate product compliance with safety requirements for SoCs."

Synopsys solutions available today to support development of safety-critical applications with the ARM Cortex-R52 include:

• Galaxy Design Platform, including Design Compiler Graphical, IC Compiler II, and ISO 26262-certified TetraMAX II tools, implements highly reliable, automotive-grade circuits with optimal Performance, Power and Area (PPA).
• Synopsys ISO 26262-certified test solution delivers higher manufacturing test quality, decreases test costs and accelerates time-to-safety standard certification.
• The Z01X high-speed fault simulator and the Certitude functional qualification system grade the quality of software test libraries and provide functional safety assurance for automotive safety standards, including ISO 26262 and IEC 61508.
• Virtualiser Development Kits (VDKs) with ARM Fast Models, including the Cortex-R52 model, enable early software development and software testing in support of ISO 26262 functional safety validation.
• Platform Architect Multicore Optimisation (MCO) with ARM Cycle Models enables early analysis and optimisation of multicore SoC architectures for performance and power.
• HAPS physical prototyping solution accelerates software development, hardware/software integration and system validation.
• VCS functional verification and ZeBu emulation solutions with Verdi HW/SW support, deliver fast emulation and prototype performance, and ease hardware/software integration and debug.
• Software Integrity Platform, including Coverity, Defensics and Protecode tools, helps build-in software cybersecurity and quality.

Vice president of strategic alliances at Synopsys, Glenn Dukes commented: "Our support for design, verification and safety certification of ARM Cortex-R52 based SoCs builds on more than 20 years of collaboration with ARM as well as our proven tools for designing safety-critical products."

Dukes added: "Early adopters of ARM's first ARMv8-R processor can get started today with Synopsys' solutions spanning silicon to software design."