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The Veloce SoC verification system reduces project schedule and cost risk through simulation acceleration and high performance in-circuit emulation. The Veloce product line supports the Open Verification Methodology (OVM) and Assertion-based Verification (ABV).

Value is delivered by

  • Accelerating transaction-based and signal-level block and full SoC regression test runs by 100s to 1000s of times,
  • Providing a comprehensive, simulation-like debug environment
  • Providing a hardware platform for software development and debug months before first silicon is available,
  • Enabling full system integration using real-world data and software for test benches before first silicon availability,
  • Accelerating post-silicon validation by accelerating regression tests before committing changes to silicon, and
  • Eliminating most silicon re-spins due to functional errors.

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The Veloce simulation acceleration/emulation product line has five scalable hardware configurations that can be configured to verify designs from 8 million gates up to 512 million gates within a single chassis.

Comprehensive Verification Environment

Veloce Systems have complementary software and application solutions to provide a comprehensive verification environment.

HDL Link Software provides a mixed-level modeling, co-simulation interface for Veloce and the Questa simulator, and other commercial simulators. HDL Link also enables ultra-fast simulation acceleration by automatically encapsulating simulation test benches in a C/C++ environment for regression testing using Veloce.

iSolve Application Solutions provide complementary solutions for memory modeling, embedded processors, software debug, multi-media data streaming and analysis and industry standard bus and communications interfaces.

Veloce Product Family

  • Veloce High-performance, high-capacity hardware-assisted solution for verifying embedded systems and SoC designs
  • TestBench XPress TestBench XPress (TBX) is the Veloce co-modeling software application that makes the Veloce SoC verification system a transaction-level modeling(TLM) verification engine running up to 10,000x the speed of TLM software simulators.
  • HDL Link HDL Link Software is an application that enables the Veloce system (1) to run in a mixed-level modeling, co-simulation mode with the Questa simulator and (2) to accelerate block-level and full SoC regression test runs by 100s of times in a free running acceleration mode (fast regression database mode-FRDB).
  • iSolve The iSolve family of application solutions consists of flexible, pre-configured software models and specialized hardware sub-systems for the Veloce product family. These models and sub-systems address the SoC modeling and real world testing requirements that are required for you to quickly build complete, high performance SoC verification environments.

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  • Veloce-based Simulation Acceleration Veloce-Based Simulation Acceleration speeds up block-level and full SoC regression test runs by 100s to 1000s of times, (1) during block and full SoC RTL development and (2) post-silicon validation by accelerating post-change regression tests.
  • Veloce-based In-circuit Emulation To accommodate the increasing complexity of today’s SoC designs many design teams are moving to high-level design languages, like System Verilog and System C, and transaction-level modeling for test benches to speed up their development and functional verification efforts.

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