Synopsys, Inc. announced the immediate availability of ZeBu Empower emulation system, delivering breakthrough technology for fast hardware-software power verification of multi-billion gate SoC designs. The performance of ZeBu Empower enables multiple iterations per day with actionable power profiling in the context of the full design and its software workload. With ZeBu Empower, software and hardware designers can utilize the power profiles to identify substantial power improvement opportunities for dynamic and leakage power much earlier. The ZeBu Empower emulation system also feeds forward power-critical blocks and time windows into Synopsys’ PrimePower engine to accelerate RTL power analysis and gate-level power sign-off.

Traditionally, power analysis with realistic software workloads is performed post-silicon, introducing a high amount of risk to miss critical high-power situations, which exposes companies to significant cost and product adoption risk. By taking advantage of high-speed emulation in ZeBu Empower, design teams can perform verification earlier in the design cycle, dramatically reducing risks of power bugs and missed SoC power goals.

Synopsys offers a comprehensive solution for low power design and verification, including RTL-based early power exploration to the industry’s golden power signoff; from early static verification to emulation-based hardware-software power verification. Synopsys’ innovative low power solutions are deployed across some of the most demanding designs, globally.

The Synopsys ZeBu Empower emulation system for hardware-software power verification solution is available now.