Home Community Blogs A View from the Top: A Virtual Prototyping Blog A View from the Top: A Virtual Prototyping Blog Search Software Modeling and KPI DAC Sunday – For Networking in Cars, Ethernet has an Edge Bali, Complexity and Abstraction Levels Fast, Accurate, and Standards-based Unlike the loosely timed models used for software development, which rely on a high level of abstraction to simulate as fast as possible, the communication between the architecture models in a virtual prototype for early performance analysis requires timing to be modeled more accurately. Continue Reading... Time for a DDR Background Check In this month’s blog we continue our discussion of power management, specifically looking at how architects can improve the energy efficiency of their SoC as it uses system memory. Continue Reading... Software Is Eating the World In the past we mostly interacted with a software-driven device when we sat in front of a desktop computer. We now carry a device with us that is as powerful as a computer. Our cars track our moves and try to pre-empt an accident by warning us about rapidly approaching obstacles, or prevent our tires from slipping on wet or snow covered roads. In our homes, the thermostat reduces the temperature when it ‘notices’ that there is no longer movement in the house. Continue Reading... Introducing HAPS-80 FPGA-Based Prototyping Solution In this month’s blog I would like to focus on a recent prototyping solution announcement from Synopsys. On September 16, Synopsys announced the new HAPS-80 FPGA-based prototyping systems, part of Synopsys’ end-to-end prototyping solution strategy. Continue Reading... A Bird’s Eye View We are living in the age of pictures. Just about any event or non-event in our life is being captured in a picture. Even more so, a lot of those pictures are being shared with others. It offers us a way to share a moment with the ones who weren’t there. Living with my wife and children in Silicon Valley, far away from our family in Belgium, it provides us with a way to show what we are up to and in that moment shorten the distance with our relatives. Continue Reading... SUBSCRIBE ABOUT Shift left architecture design and SW development with virtual prototyping. ABOUT THE AUTHORS Patrick Sheridan Patrick Sheridan is responsible for Synopsys' system-level solution for virtual prototyping. In addition to his responsibilities at Synopsys, from 2005 through 2011 he served as the Executive Director of the Open SystemC Initiative (now part of the Accellera Systems Initiative). Mr. Sheridan has 30 years of experience in the marketing and business development of high technology hardware and software products for Silicon Valley companies. Malte Doerper Malte Doerper is responsible for driving the software oriented virtual prototyping business at Synopsys. Today he is based in Mountain View, California. Malte also spent over 7 years in Tokyo, Japan, where he led the customer facing program management practice for the Synopsys system-level products. Malte has over 12 years’ experiences in all aspects of system-level design ranging from research, engineering, product management and business development. Malte joined Synopsys through the CoWare acquisition, before CoWare he worked as researcher at the Institute for Integrated Signal Processing Systems at the Aachen University of Technology, Germany. Tom De Schutter Tom De Schutter is responsible for driving the physical prototyping business at Synopsys. He joined Synopsys through the acquisition of CoWare where he was the product marketing manager for transaction-level models. Tom has over 10 years of experience in system-level design through different marketing and engineering roles. Before joining the marketing team he led the transaction-level modeling team at CoWare. CATEGORIES Abstraction Levels Automotive Embedded Software Featured Shows and Events Uncategorized ARCHIVES 2017 2016 2015 2011 2008 PRODUCTS Software Integrity Semiconductor IP Verification Design Silicon Engineering RESOURCES Solutions Services Support Community Manage Subscriptions CORPORATE About Us Careers CSR Report Inclusion & Diversity Investor Relations Contact Us LEGAL Privacy Trademarks & Brands Software Integrity Agreements FOLLOW ©2021 Synopsys, Inc. All Rights Reserved