MOUNTAIN VIEW, USA: Synopsys Inc. has introduced the latest generation of its Discovery Verification Platform, an integrated verification solution for analog/mixed-signal (AMS) and digital designs.

Discovery 2009 delivers unprecedented verification productivity with new multicore simulation technologies, native design checks and comprehensive low power verification capabilities throughout the platform. The multicore simulation technologies being introduced today with the VCS functional verification and CustomSim unified circuit simulation solutions, both key components of the Discovery platform, deliver up to four times faster verification than previous solutions.

With Discovery 2009, verification engineers are benefiting from significantly higher productivity and faster verification closure for their AMS and digital designs.

In March 2008, Synopsys announced a broad multicore initiative to deploy advanced parallel, threaded and other optimized compute technologies across its verification and implementation and manufacturing platforms to reduce time-to-results. The most recent result of this initiative is the expansion of VCS with multicore technology to deliver 2x faster verification performance.

VCS multicore technology removes typical verification bottlenecks associated with interactive simulations and long-running tests by parallelizing tasks such as simulation, coverage, assertions and debug across multiple processor cores.

The new CustomSim unified circuit simulation solution integrates best-in-class, high-performance circuit simulation technologies with new multicore capabilities in a single, highly-accurate verification solution that delivers up to 4x performance improvement for large analog and mixed-signal circuits. VCS and CustomSim are tightly integrated via Direct Kernel Integration (DKI) for high-performance mixed-signal simulation.

Discovery 2009 incorporates comprehensive low-power verification capabilities at multiple levels of abstraction, from RTL to transistor level. VCS with MVSIM delivers true voltage-aware RTL and gate-level simulation, automated assertions, and comprehensive verification coverage as defined in the new Verification Methodology Manual for Low Power (VMM-LP) book.

CustomSim verifies complex power management designs at the transistor level by identifying IR drop, electromigration and standby leakage issues that can impact the reliability and performance of integrated circuits. This latest generation of the Discovery Platform further strengthens Synopsys’ technical leadership in low power design and verification.