Siemens cracks verification of FPGA-based prototyping

“Nvidia and Siemens are partnering in FPGA-based prototyping to adapt to the verification and validation demands presented by highly complex AI/ML SoCs,” says Siemens svp Jean-Marie Brunet.

FPGA-based prototype systems are fast and allow users to run pre-silicon verification workloads in a fraction of the time it would take to run the same workload in simulation or even emulation.

However, today’s AI/ML designs are demanding more, in part due to the chip complexity and in part due to the software complexity.

To scale to these industry demands, meet time-to-market and align to reliability requirements, the ability to run trillions of design cycles in a short amount of time is now critical.

Traditional verification tools like simulation and emulation do not scale beyond running millions, or best case a few billion cycles within a reasonable and practical amount of time.

For more:  www.siemens.com/en-us/products/ic/hav/veloce-cs/profpga-cs/

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