Altera embeds Synopsys’ virtual prototyping technology in new ARM-based SoC FPGA offering
Altera chose to leverage Synopsys’ Virtual Prototyping Solution due to its comprehensive and proven technology, highly productive debugging and analysis tools for multicore platforms and broad model portfolio, which includes transaction-level models of the ARM Cortex-A9 and Synopsys DesignWare IP.
By supplying its customers with an SoC FPGA Virtual Target, Altera is delivering significant time and cost savings to software developers enabling them to debug and fix software defects in a matter of days rather than weeks. In addition, it provides significant productivity increases compared to the use of traditional development platforms such as emulators and hardware simulators. Since the SoC FPGA Virtual Target is binary- and register-compatible with the final SoC FPGA development board that it models, Altera’s customers can save software development time and almost eliminate integration time once the SoC FPGA is available. Synopsys’ Virtual Prototyping Solution supports commercial and open source debug tools, making it easy for Altera’s customers to initiate their software development. Altera’s software development teams and partners have already been using the Virtual Target to port operating systems such as Linux and VxWorks as well as develop complex device drivers.
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