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Veloce Primo completes a full SoC verification landscape

The Veloce Primo enterprise prototype system provides higher capacity than the desktop prototype, and it offers lower cost-per-gate and cost-per-MHz than an emulator.
Veloce Primo enterprise prototypes provide higher-performance hardware for running emulation regression suites, executing ICE tests and verifying application software.
SoC design teams are tasked with completing full system-level verification prior to creating expensive production masks. That means thoroughly vetting all hardware blocks, all interactions between those blocks and all of the purpose-built software created for the end application – all before the chip is even built. While emulators and desktop prototype boards are two well-known participants in this verification, enterprise prototypes have also gained signification relevance.

While simulation dominates in the early stages of a design, its utility is limited to circuit blocks due to performance. Once full-chip verification begins, greater speed is needed to handle the enormous number of tests required to provide full coverage. Emulation has taken on the bulk of this burden, while desktop prototype units have primarily helped software developers to prove out their application code.

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