Market-driven trends in hardware emulation

Five of the largest semiconductor vertical markets are combining to drive several of the widest industry trends: unending growth in design complexity and size, proliferation of peripherals, increase in computing power, surging I/O traffic activity, and a critical need to contain the otherwise escalating energy consumption. The cumulative effects of these trends impact dramatically the design verification landscape and foster widespread adoption of hardware emulation platforms.

The five verticals contributing to these trends are data center networking, communication/5G, autonomous driving (AD), storage, and artificial intelligence (AI) & machine learning (ML).