Synopsys Frontend tool 2016

REPORT ON SYNOPSYS FRONTEND TOOLS

Northwestern Polytechnic University, California,USA.

BY: SHOBHAN PUJARI

PRAJWAL.D.K

ANIL

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Synopsys Frontend tool 2016

Synopsys Front End Tool

Introduction

Name of tool and its usage

Customer Reviews on tool

Competitors tool

Strengths of tool

Weakness of tool

Conclusion

References

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INTRODUCTION Synopsys is called the Silicon to Software partner for companies who develop the electronic products and software applications. It was founded in 1986. The company headquarters is located in Mountain View,California.The CEO of company is Dr.Aart J.de Geus.

Synopsys is known as the Global leader in electronic design automation. It has a very good leadership in software and security solutions. Synopsys has given a great contribution in Integrated Circuit (IC) design. The complex design would not exist without Synopsys tool.

In todays world the people who rely on electronics products. To manufacture these products we need billions of chips and systems. This support to create this Synopsys has played a very important role. Synopsys develops and supports Products for the design and analysis of high performance.

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Verilog Compiler Simulator Synopsys Tool In fact ,when the verification environment comes designers tool on the Synopsys VCS functional verification solution. VCS is used by majority of world’s top 20 semiconductor companies. VCS can meet the challenges and complexity of todaysv SOC’s and verification teams success.

When to use it:

VCS is used during verification.

VCS is a 3 step process

1.Analyze

2.Elaborate

3.Simulate

VCS multicore technology delievers 2x verification speed up and cuts down verification time by running the design ,testbench,assertions,coverage and debug in parallel on machines with multiple cores.

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Who should use it

This tool helps specifically to simulate and debug designs . VCS also uses Vir Sim a graphical user interface to VCS used for debugging and viewing waveforms.

VCS provides high performance ,built in coverage technology to measure verification competness. It also provides an integrated management solution,Execution manager which helps balance the tools and techniques that drives project toward closure.

VCS provides high-performance,built-in coverage technology to measure verification completeness. Comprehensive coverage includes code coverage,fuctional coverage and assertion coverage as

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well as user defines metrics. Unified coverage aggregates all aspects of coverage in a common database.

Customer reviews on tool

BROADCOM: VCS provides customers to resolve issues quickly and help in better verification.

TOSHIBA: VCS Diagnostic tool save engineers time.

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QUALCOMM:VCS Echo coverage technology helps in rapid verification closure.

VCS tool helps a beginner to simulate and compile verilog code very effectively.

Competitors tool

Nvidia,Qualcomm and Toshiba uses VCS tool .Toshiba was able to ensure that their initial projects using VCS were successful and delievered on time. Cadence Incisive Enterprise Simulator,Mentor Model Sim/SE are some of the competitors tool. Mentor Model Sim tool is used for small projects. Synopsys VCS are more powerful tools and much expensive

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Strenghts of tool

1. If it is compiled once,it can run many times.

2. It has a very high performance. VCS on Linux acts as

a rock solid.

3. It gives us low risk regression solution.

4. ST Microelectronics has achieved very good

accuracy,performance,ease of adoption and ease of

analysis.

5. It provides effective solution to find more bugs in

less time was told by Toshiba.

6. It has advanced testbench automation and high

capacity simulation.

7. The tool is extremely good compared to 3rd party

tool in terms of integration and performance

Weakness of tool

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1. VCS build up process is tedious.

2. As complexity in design and software content

there is pressure on time to market.

3. Broadcom says that there were challenges with

performance requirements in verification

References

1. http://www.synopsys.com/Tools/Verification/

FunctionalVerification/Pages/VCS.aspx

2. http://www.synopsys.com/Tools/Verification/

FunctionalVerification/VCSMulticore/Pages/

VCS-CustomerVideos.aspx

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