Synopsys VCS R-2020.12

Synopsys VCS is the primary verification solution used by most of the world’s leading semiconductor companies. VCS offers the industry’s highest performance and constraint solving engines. The VCS simulation engine natively leverages multi-core processors with advanced Fine-Grained Parallelism (FGP) technology, enabling users to easily accelerate high-activity, long-cycle tests by allocating more cores at runtime.

VCS has innovative features to achieve higher performance and enable left-shift verification flows early in the design cycle to identify additional bugs. Synopsys Design Constraint Verification (SDC), Intelligent Coverage Optimization (ICO), Dynamic Performance Optimization (DPO), and Dynamic Test Loading (DTL) are innovations that significantly expand the applicability of the solution.

Additionally, the comprehensive VCS solution offers Native Testbench (NTB) support, extensive SystemVerilog support, verification programming, coverage and closure analysis, and native integration with Synopsys Verdi debugger, the industry standard for true debugging. VCS is uniquely positioned to meet the needs of designers and verification engineers to address the challenges and complexities of today’s SoCs.

Features and functions of the Synopsys VCS program:

• High-performance simulation: The industry’s highest-performance simulation solution, multi-core parallelization for faster verification
• Comprehensive verification solution: Native Testbench (NTB) Extensive SystemVerilog support Verification programming support Coverage and closure analysis Native integration with Synopsys Verdi debugger, the de facto industry debugging standard
• Innovative Features: Synopsys Design Constraints (SDC) Intelligent Cover Optimization Verification (ICO) Dynamic Performance Optimization (DPO) Dynamic Test Loading (DTL)
• Integration with other tools: Native integration with Verdi debugger Integration with other tools in the Synopsys verification family, including virtual prototyping, formal and fixed verification, low-power verification, FPGA-based prototyping and simulation