Palladium Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform

Easy to manage and scale, the platform:

• Compiles databases for different workloads, with up to 140MG per hour compile times on a single workstation
• Allocates as many workloads as possible
• Runs workloads based on priorities
• Debugs for both pre- and post-silicon bugs

Smart Emulation Resource Utilization

The way that the Palladium Z1 platform manages emulation resources can save you time and effort. The platform’s unique virtual target relocation capability, along with advanced job shaping allocation, avoids recompiles by allowing payloads to be allocated into available resources at runtime. The platform can execute up to 2304 parallel jobs with 4 million gate granularity and scales to 9.2 billion gates. 

Compared to the Palladium XP II environment, the new platform offers an up to 44% reduction in power density, along with a reduction in power consumption per emulation cycle by a factor of three or more. The power advantages are a result of:

• An average of 2.5X better system utilization and number of parallel users
• Up to 5X better emulation throughput
• Up to 140MG per hour compile times
• Superior debug depth and upload speeds

Its rack-based blade architecture results in a 92% smaller footprint and 8X better gate density, compared to the Palladium XP II platform. The Palladium Z1 processor-based compute engine is also designed with massive parallelism, delivering 4X better user granularity than its nearest competitor.

Through a compile flow, the Palladium Z1 platform is congruent with the Protium S1 FPGA-Based Prototyping Platform and the Protium X1 Enterprise Prototyping Platform for software development, system validation, and hardware regressions.