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Revolutionizing Embedded Software Development

Imperas is now a part of Synopsys

Standards, Open Source, And Tools

EDA has been more successful creating open languages and standards rather than promoting open-source collaboration. Will this change?

Semiconductor Engineering

 

Experts at the Table: Semiconductor Engineering discussed what open source verification means today and what it should evolve into with Jean-Marie Brunet, senior director for the Emulation Division at Siemens EDA; Ashish Darbari, CEO of Axiomise; Simon Davidmann, CEO of Imperas Software; Serge Leef, program manager in the Microsystems Technology Office at DARPA; Tao Liu, staff hardware engineer in the Google chip implementation and integration team; and Bipul Talukdar, director of applications engineering for SmartDV. This is an adaptation of a panel session held at DVCon. Part one of this discussion is here. Part two is here. The last part of this expert series contains answers to questions posed by the audience but not addressed during the session. Those answers call on additional experts…

 

To read the full Semiconductor Engineering article by Brian Bailey, click here.


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Related Resources

There are many Imperas documents available. Some of them are accessed only from the Imperas User site and are available only to Imperas customers under license.

On the OVPworld website there are many documents that introduce the various APIs and technologies developed by Imperas and made available as part of Open Virtual Platforms. Click here for the OVPworld documentation list.

Publicly available Imperas documents:

Using OVP Fast Processor Models with OVPsim and other simulators

RISC-V Processor Verification: ImperasDV with Synopsys VCS and Verdi Application Note

RISC-V Custom Instruction Flow Application Note

Comments

  • Frank Poppen, Researcher

    OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology of Germany

    OVP was selected because of the ease with which models are built and the flexibility in interfacing to other tools. The availability of the ARM processor model we needed, and the open source nature of the OVP models, were also important factors.

  • Philippe Berger, CEO

    Dolphin Design

    Our verification methodology for the Panther DSP/AI Accelerator IP needs to address not just the full range of the current configuration options but also the roadmap for Panther. 

    ImperasDV is the cornerstone of our simulation-based DV strategy, with the Imperas golden reference model, scoreboard, verification IP, functional coverage analysis and debug efficiency.