Synopsys has rolled out the HAPS-600 FPGA-based prototyping system that extends the prototyping capacity by a maximum of 81 million ASIC gates. The prototyping system, based on Xilinx Virtex-6 LX760 FPGA devices, enables early software development for large SoC projects. The HAPS family provides hardware and software solution for design teams to develop software, verify SoC hardware and enable hardware and software integration before tape-out. According to the company, the initial turnaround time and subsequent iteration can be reduced with an automated software flow from application-specific integrated circuit register transfer level code to the FPGA-based prototype. The prototyping system includes native integration of the UMRBus (universal multi-resource bus), which allows users to ease system bring-up with co-simulation capabilities. The UMRBus provides links to virtual prototyping solution.
