New Synopsys Virtuali1zer Release Gives up to 5x performance for Early Software Development

Synopsys, Inc. announced the availability of its latest release of its Virtualizer tool for creating Virtualizer Development Kits (VDKs), software development kits that use virtual prototypes. The latest Virtualizer release implements new features including MultiSim, SimSight and FastBuildto increase VDK simulation performance by up to 5X and accelerate VDK availability for earlier software development.

MultiSim optimizes the use of multi-core hosts for parallel execution of VDKs, accelerating simulation performance by up to 5X for SoCs consisting of independent subsystems or electronic systems using multiple SoCs

“One of the benefits of virtual prototyping is the ability to scale the prototypeto an entire system,” said Andreas v. Schwerin, principal engineer at Siemens. “By using the VirtualizerMultiSim feature of the VDKs, we were able to simulate our system up to fivetimes faster than with a regular virtual prototype simulation.”