Faraday Extends SoC Design Services to Include Virtual Prototyping Solution Using Synopsys Virtualizer
January 05, 2017 at 02:05 pm
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Faraday Technology Corporation and Synopsys, Inc. announced the expansion of Faraday's design services to include a virtual prototyping solution. Faraday's SoReal!™ Virtual Platform, based on Synopsys' Virtualizer™ solution, enables Faraday's customers to develop, deploy and use virtual prototypes to accelerate software development up to a year before silicon is available. Building on Faraday's SoCreative™ SoC development platform's success, the SoReal! Virtual Platform is now extended with SystemC models of the Faraday A380 dual-core system-on-chip (SoC), which contains high-speed interface IP modules including USB, DDR, etc. This complete platform is available as a Virtualizer Development Kit (VDK), offering extended debug capabilities and easy distribution to software engineers. VDKs are software development kits that use a virtual prototype as a target to accelerate embedded software development, integration and test.
Synopsys Inc. specializes in the development and marketing of software programs aimed mainly at manufacturers of semi-conductors, computers and electronic equipment. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of software and hardware (82.4%): sale of software for the automation of integrated circuit design, pre-designed circuits for semiconductors, software and hardware for the validation of electronic systems, etc.;
- provision of services (17.6%): consulting, maintenance and technical assistance services in the areas of software security, quality and compliance.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (47.7%), China (15.2%), Korea (10.9%), Europe (10.2%) and other (16%).
SYNOPSYS INC. 
