But you don't want to focus your efforts on a design that simulates more efficiently just to solve your driver problem. Instead, IDT focused on developing a chip that would provide excellent real world performance, and used the emulator to solve the software development challenge. You have to reserve some resources to complete emulation. Carl Hagenmaier Director of Network Products Group Successful emulation requires careful planning. A design team must assess its skills and use them.
Emulation demands preparation and commitment from the start of the project.
If you're going to take advantage of software co-development, you have to be prepared to do your software development earlier. That's the nature of these tools. You have to expect that. We had a lot of confidence in the part going into tapeout. With simulation, you are just not able to get to the same confidence level in the design.