Synopsys and Arm Join Forces to Accelerate Development of Next-Generation Mobile SoCs

Synopsys' industry-leading EDA and IP solutions combined with Arm's comprehensive computing solutions help the ecosystem address multi-die system design challenges

summary:

• Synopsys' comprehensive system-level solutions span design, verification, silicon lifecycle management, and IP, delivering industry-leading performance and energy efficiency

• Synopsys.ai full-stack AI-driven EDA solution and Synopsys Fusion Compiler QIKs enable quick implementation of Arm Cortex-X4, Cortex-A720, and Cortex-A520 CPUs, as well as Arm Immortalis-G720 and Arm Mali-G720 GPUs, accelerating development of SoCs down to 2-nanometer process nodes

• Synopsys Verification portfolio, including virtual prototyping using Arm Fast Models, as well as hardware-assisted verification and verification IP, accelerates software development

• Synopsys' silicon-proven interface/security IP and silicon lifecycle management PVT IP are optimized for low-risk integration into Arm-based SoCs

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., June 5, 2023 - To address the challenges of highly complex mobile chip designs on advanced processes as low as 2 nanometers, Synopsys, Inc. recently announced that it has strengthened its collaboration with Arm on AI-enhanced designs based on the Arm 2023 Total Compute Solution (TCS23) . For Arm's new computing platform, Synopsys provides optimized EDA and IP comprehensive solutions, including Synopsys.ai full-stack AI-driven EDA solutions, Synopsys interface and security IP, and Synopsys chip lifecycle management PVT IP, to help Arm achieve industry-leading performance and power consumption. These achievements are based on decades of long-term cooperation between the two parties and can accelerate mutual customers to deliver high-performance, energy-efficient Arm architecture SoCs for high-end smartphones and virtual/augmented reality applications.

"Adding new features and optimizing performance and power efficiency on advanced mobile devices means that design challenges are multiplying," said Shankar Krishnamoorthy, general manager of the EDA group at Synopsys . "Together with Arm, we are optimizing our comprehensive EDA and IP solutions to help our mutual customers address the growing challenges of multi-die system integration, including design, IP integration, verification and software development. The addition of Synopsys.ai EDA solutions to our collaboration marks a new phase in our collaboration, combining the strengths of Synopsys and Arm as semiconductor leaders to help our mutual customers accelerate the implementation of Arm-based SoC designs."

"The new Arm 2023 Total Compute Solution is designed with the system in mind, delivering a set of market-specific technologies to help customers achieve the compute performance they need for the next generation of visual computing experiences," said Chris Bergey, senior vice president and general manager of the Endpoint Business Unit at Arm. "Through our collaboration with Synopsys and its full stack of AI-driven EDA and silicon-proven IP, customers can now further improve product performance and take full advantage of advanced process technologies."

Higher design quality, faster turnaround time

Synopsys' comprehensive solution delivers best-in-class differentiated capabilities such as multi-source clock tree synthesis, smart budgeting, timing-driven pin assignment, seamless constraint pushdown, and transparent hierarchical optimization to address the complex system-level challenges of hierarchical implementation of high-performance cores while achieving performance, power, and runtime targets.

Synopsys provides system-level solutions for the Arm 2023 comprehensive computing solution, including:

• Synopsys.ai full-stack AI-driven EDA solution that applies AI technology from system architecture to design and manufacturing processes to optimize power, performance and area (PPA) and accelerate time to market.

• Synopsys Verification Portfolio, which accelerates architectural exploration, software development, and verification for Arm-based SoCs powered by Arm Cortex®-X4, Cortex-A720, and Cortex-A520 CPUs, and Immortalis™-G720 and Mali™-G720 GPUs. Early customers of the Arm 2023 Comprehensive Compute Solution are using Synopsys Virtual Prototyping with Arm Fast Models, Synopsys hardware-assisted verification, and verification IP for the new Arm® AMBA interconnect to bring SoCs to market faster.

• Synopsys interface and security IP, including PCIe 6.0 with integrity and data encryption (IDE) module, CXL 3.0 with IDE module, DDR5 and UCIe with embedded memory encryption (IME) module, are performance-optimized for Arm-specific functions and pre-silicon interoperability with Arm cores to minimize risk and accelerate time to market.

• Synopsys' chip lifecycle management series PVT monitoring IP can be integrated into the Arm core to monitor the "health" of the chip from development to actual application scenarios, and then evaluate and optimize performance.

Availability

Synopsys' Fusion Compiler QIKs are optimized to fully exploit the potential of advanced processes and provide an efficient path to the best scale-out compute architecture for demanding end applications.

Synopsys' QIKs for quick implementation provide implementation scripts and reference guides to help early adopters of the new Armv9.2 cores accelerate time to market while achieving stringent performance-per-watt targets. The QIKs are available now through the Arm Support Center or Synopsys SolvNet.

Synopsys has also integrated the new Arm Fast Models into its virtual prototyping solution and provided verification IP for the new Arm AMBA interconnect, emulation, and prototyping hardware to accelerate hardware and software debug as well as power and performance verification, thereby reducing time to market.

Synopsys IP products including PCIe 6.0 with IDE, CXL 3.0 with IDE, DDR5 with IME, and UCIe IP are all available now.