Key Benefits
- Ensure that your Arm®-based SoCs meet design intent
- Minimize iterations of your interconnect, while quickly verifying and analyzing performance
- Achieve faster time to market
Developing hardware and software systems now involves integrating many IP blocks, many cores, and lots of software. To ensure that your system on chip (SoC) meets your design intent, verification technology is essential. Cadence offers verification solutions—from early software bring-up to use-case testing, debugging, and performance analysis—ideal for Arm-based SoC designs.
Collaborating with Arm, Cadence has enhanced the Arm-based system verification technologies in our System Development Suite to deliver:
- Faster performance analysis and verification of Arm CoreLink™ interconnect intellectual property- (IP-) based systems. This is made possible through a new adaptable interconnect performance characterization test suite in the Cadence® Interconnect Workbench, along with Arm AMBA® Designer integration.
- More pre-verified support of hardware-accurate OS embedded software verification using the Cadence Palladium® emulation series with Armv8 64-bit Cortex® processor family Fast Models
- Verification IP (VIP) supporting AMBA 5 CHI protocol for advanced server, storage, and networking systems and Accelerated Verification IP for the Palladium series
- Low-power optimization for Arm-based system using dynamic power analysis in the Palladium Z1 platform and also with the Joules™ RTL Power Solution
- Software-driven verification for Arm-based systems for complex system-level, coverage-driven test development, via Perspec™ System Verifier and an Arm coherency library
- Hardware/software debug synchronized between embedded software debug on Arm RTL CPUs using Indago™ Debug Platform and on Arm DS-5 Development Studio using Protium™ Rapid Prototyping Platform
Expanded Support for AMBA Protocol and Arm Fast Models
Cadence has expanded its already market-leading support of AMBA protocols with the availability of VIP and Accelerated VIP for AMBA 5 CHI. You can take advantage of verification support across all simulators and the Palladium Z1.
The Cadence Palladium Hybrid solution has been expanded to support Arm Fast Models for the Arm Cortex-A portfolio, including Armv8 processors for mobile and networking systems. In addition, since Cadence is a value-added reseller for Armv8 and Armv7 Fast Models, you gain a one-stop shopping experience.
Expanded CoreLink Performance Verification and Analysis
An automated flow from AMBA Designer into Interconnect Workbench means that you don’t have to manually specify the description of your interconnect. You can do many iterations of your interconnect and quickly verify and analyze the performance to achieve the results you need. To optimize performance inclusive of memory access, tap into CoreLink interconnect and memory controllers, which also work with Interconnect Workbench.
The expanding collaboration between ARM and Cadence, and the availability of better ARM-based system design and verification automation, enables our joint partners to focus on innovation and getting their value-added products to market faster.
James McNiven, Deputy General Manager, Systems & Software Group, ARM
The Cadence Palladium solution for embedded software development enabled by ARM-based Fast Models helps us reduce the system software validation cycle and ensures a smoother post-silicon bring-up. The continued delivery of innovating technology from ARM and Cadence is crucial to our ongoing success.
Kevin Kranzusch, Vice President, System Software, NVIDIA