VSP enables early chip and system validation by allowing multiple levels of abstraction to be simulated together including C, SystemC, RTL, IP cores, transaction-level, and instruction-level models. VSP models are derived from a chip's RTL specification and have the benefits of drop-in interoperability, high-performance, and hardware-accuracy. Carbon's all software approach is replacing validation methodologies that include proprietary hardware accelerators, event-based simulators, FPGA prototypes, and slow co-simulation techniques.
"Our VSP software opens new doors for ESL adoption by allowing customers to incorporate IP and legacy RTL into a system simulation early in their design cycle," noted Alan Swahn, Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Carbon Design Systems. "In addition, firmware and the underlying virtual hardware can be validated together before tape-out, rather than waiting for first silicon or spending months to develop an approximate behavioral model."
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About Carbon
Carbon is delivering a high-performance virtual system prototyping solution that enables a system prototype to be rapidly assembled and functionally validated on the desktop months before silicon. Carbon's new software approach allows multiple levels of abstraction to be validated together including C, SystemC, Verilog and VHDL RTL, IP cores, transaction-level, and instruction-level models. The key to VSP is silicon accuracy and performance; the ability to execute billions of cycles and boot embedded operating systems, all with desktop software.
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