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VCS

Industry-leading designers of today’s most advanced designs rely on the Synopsys VCS® functional verification solution for their verification environments. In fact, a high majority of designs at 32nm and below are verified with VCS. Used by a majority of the world’s top 20 semiconductor companies as their primary verification solution, VCS provides high performance simulation engines, constraint solver engines, Native Testbench (NTB) support, broad SystemVerilog support, verification planning, coverage analysis and closure, and an integrated debug environment. VCS has continually pioneered numerous industry-first innovations, and is now poised to meet the challenges and complexity of today’s SoCs. With features such as such as constrained random testbench, SoC optimized compile flow, coverage, assertions, planning and management, VCS has the flexibility and capabilities that are critical for today’s SoC design and verification teams’ success. VCS offers industry-leading performance and capacity, complemented by a complete collection of advanced methodology-aware testbench and constraint debug features, bug-finding, coverage, planning and assertion technologies. VCS’ multicore technology delivers a 2x verification speed-up and cuts down verification time by running the design, testbench, assertions, coverage and debug in parallel on machines with multiple cores (see Figure 1). VCS’ Partition Compile flow allows users to achieve up to 10 times faster compile turnaround time by only recompiling code that has changed. VCS also supplies a comprehensive suite of diagnostic tools, including simulation memory and time profiling, interactive constraint debugging, smart logging, and more to help users quickly analyze issues. VCS with native low power simulation and UPF support, delivers innovative voltage-aware verification techniques to find bugs in modern low power designs with integrated debug and high performance. With its built-in debug and visualization environment;support for all popular design and verification languages, including Verilog, VHDL, SystemVerilog, OpenVera™, and SystemC™;and the VMM, OVM, and UVM™ methodologies, VCS helps users develop high-quality designs.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x Self-Certified