Synopsys ZeBu

Synopsys is at the forefront of Smart, Secure Everything with the world’s most advanced tools for silicon chip design, verification, IP integration, and application security testing. Our technology helps customers innovate from Silicon to Software, so they can deliver Smart, Secure Everything.

ZeBu Server 4

Synopsys ZeBu® emulation system delivers the performance needed to make verification teams and software developers working on the most advanced chips successful. ZeBu emulation systems are modular, allowing users to deploy the capacity needed in a scalable and easily extensible fashion.ZeBu Server 4 builds on the proven ZeBu Fast Emulation architecture with 2X the emulation performance over competing emulation solutions, to enable system-on-chip (SoC) verification and software bring-up. In addition, ZeBu Server 4 delivers software innovation for faster compile, advanced debug, power analysis, simulation acceleration, and hybrid emulation

Verification & Software Bring-Up 

The verification and software bring-up of advanced SoCs, including major new classes of SoCs in the automotive, 5G, networking, artificial intelligence, and datacenter segments, requires performance and capacity to handle large verification and software bring-up workloads.  Performance-limited legacy emulation systems are challenged with the verification workloads demanded by these new classes of SoCs. These legacy architectures are further constrained by a limited performance improvement with each generation of emulator.

Fast Emulation Architecture

These software innovations enable users with faster compile, advanced debug, power analysis, simulation acceleration, and hybrid emulation. These use cases are further supported by the industry's most comprehensive suite of transactors, speed adapters, and virtual models. ZeBu Server 4 sets a new standard in emulation performance and capacity by leveraging the Xilinx UltraScale FPGA, the industry's most advanced emulation chip. With unprecedented capacity, as well as gigabit-per-second (Gbit/s) interconnect, Xilinx UltraScale enables the industry's largest designs to be supported in emulation systems with high performance. Further, as SoC verification complexity and software workloads continue to increase, Fast Emulation systems scale with double performance and capacity per FPGA generation.