Getting more from hardware-assisted design environments with HPCWorks Hero

There's perhaps no industry more competitive than electronics design and manufacturing, and the semiconductor industry relies on expensive EDA tools that must be utilized efficiently for maximum value and performance. As Moore's law has stalled and designs grow in size and complexity, organizations are looking for new ways to speed up verification and regression testing. Increasingly, firms are turning to hardware-assisted verification technologies to simulate designs faster and speed up regression tests.

This paper explains some of the challenges associated with hardware verification and introduces HPCWorks™ Hero™ software – an enterprise job scheduler purpose-built for multi-vendor emulation environments. It also discusses techniques used to improve emulator efficiency and show how organizations can improve throughput and realize a better ROI on their emulator investments by leveraging advanced workload management.

HPCWorks Hero software optimizes hardware emulation environments, addressing challenges in verification and maximizing ROI.

• Understand hardware verification challenges.
• Learn about multi-vendor emulation solutions.
• Discover techniques for emulator efficiency.
• Boost throughput and ROI.
• Improve workload management.

What you'll learn

HPCWorks Hero provides an end-to-end, vendor-agnostic job scheduling solution for hardware emulation, maximizing resource utilization and accelerating verification.

• How HPCWorks Hero streamlines hardware verification.
• Strategies for efficient emulator resource sharing.
• Methods to integrate ICE and SA jobs.
• Techniques for compilation and emulation pipelining.
• Insights into monitoring and reporting emulator usage.