Synopsys Virtual Prototyping book achieves huge milestone

MOUNTAIN VIEW, USA: Synopsys Inc. has distributed more than 3,000 copies of the Better Software. Faster! book on virtual prototyping to over 1,000 companies.

The fast adoption of the book demonstrates how the industry is increasingly looking to virtual prototyping as a method to help develop software much earlier in the design cycle and accelerate project schedules. Synopsys has translated the book in Mandarin, with Japanese translation to become available by the end of the year.

"With an increasing amount of software content in mobile devices, like our tablets, it is essential to start software development early," said Rongwei Jin, director of IC design department at InfoTMIC.

"We adopted virtual prototyping to shift left software development and accelerate time to market for our products. The Better Software. Faster! book offers great insight into virtual prototyping best practices, and we believe that the Mandarin edition of the book will receive great interest from Chinese software developers."

Better Software. Faster! is a practical guide for using virtual prototypes to develop, test and debug software before hardware availability. The book captures the benefits and best practices of virtual prototyping as used by a range of companies that have deep experience in deploying virtual prototypes to enable software development much earlier and accelerate project schedules.

Virtual prototypes are fast, fully functional software models of systems that execute unmodified production code and provide development, debug and analysis efficiency, which mitigate software development challenges and increase productivity, resulting in better products, faster. Virtual prototypes eliminate the need to wait until hardware becomes available to start software development and enable users to "shift left" software development by up to 12 months.