Facing a new age of challenges in IC design

Siemens is introducing three new platforms as RTL designers, software coders, and system-level engineers must collaborate to create today’s electronic products and semiconductors. As the RTL design team create and verify the chip design, software teams develop and test driver, operating-system, middleware, and application code and integrate them with the chip design and board-level hardware. All proceed concurrently. One platform cannot optimally meet all three of these sets of needs. Each verification system must meet the stringent and unique requirements to support today’s massive designs. Most importantly they must all share much of their DNA.