Synopsys Launches Native Automotive Solutions to Efficiently Enable Autonomous Driving and ADAS SoC Design

• Synopsys' native automotive solutions enable designers to efficiently implement and verify functional safety mechanisms to achieve target ASIL levels for safety-critical SoCs

  
  

• Synopsys' differentiated solution enables designers to avoid custom scripting solutions and achieve faster runtimes, improved job execution, quality of results, and ease of use

Synopsys , Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today introduced new native automotive solutions to enable more efficient chip design. The accelerated development of automotive technology requires more automotive chips to achieve higher automotive safety integrity levels (ASILs) for autonomous driving and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS). Synopsys' native automotive design solutions enable designers to achieve their target ASILs by providing the industry's most comprehensive feature set to implement functional safety mechanisms such as triple module redundancy (TMR), dual core lockstep (DCLS), and fail-safe finite state machines (FSM).

With the differentiation provided by native automotive solutions, designers can generate the industry's first functional safety intent early in the design process to describe the behavior of safety mechanisms that are used as input and maintained throughout the digital design flow. Synopsys' native automotive solutions integrate a complete digital design flow with multiple functional safety technologies that work together to maximize efficiency, including:

• TestMAX FuSa, performs early functional safety analysis at the RTL or gate level and identifies candidates for TMR or DCLS to achieve the Single Point Fault Metric (SPFM) target for the target ASIL

  
  

• Design Compiler® NXT synthesis, IC Compiler™ II place-and-route, and Fusion Compiler™ design to insert, check, and report on implemented safety mechanisms

  
  

• Formality® equivalence checker to functionally verify that the RTL matches the netlist after redundant or additional logic blocks are inserted

  
  

• IC Validator physical signoff, verifies the layout and reports that all redundant mechanisms are correctly implemented

"As next-generation automotive applications continue to drive market growth, designers face increasing pressure to meet functional safety requirements while still achieving aggressive time-to-market goals," said Shankar Krishnamoorthy, senior vice president of Design Group at Synopsys. "Synopsys now offers the industry's first complete set of natively integrated capabilities for implementing and validating functional safety mechanisms, helping designers significantly reduce time-to-market while ensuring higher quality of results for safety-critical automotive designs."

Synopsys Automotive Design Solutions

Synopsys' complete automotive design solution provides complex functional safety analysis, design implementation and verification capabilities. Differentiated automotive design products, such as unified functional safety verification and native automotive solutions, enable designers to prove that their chip safety architecture can achieve the target ASIL level during the planning and implementation stages. The unified functional safety verification solution brings together the best-in-class fault activity management technology in a unified control center. Early functional safety analysis can quickly identify candidates for TMR and DCLS redundancy and make estimates of the indicators of the target ASIL. Synopsys' native automotive solution provides the industry's most comprehensive feature set to efficiently implement and verify functional safety mechanisms such as TMR, DCLS and fail-safe FSM. Comprehensive digital/analog fault injection and simulation can be performed to generate reliable data for final analysis and summary. Synopsys also provides complete solutions to address reliability issues, including electromigration, voltage drop, device aging and powerful redundant via insertion (RVI) capabilities. Synopsys provides designers with a broad portfolio of automotive IP cores that are designed and tested for AEC-Q100 reliability, provide ASIL-ready ISO 26262 certification, and support automotive quality management.

In addition, Synopsys' unified functional safety verification solution includes:

• VC Functional Safety Manager, a high-quality, scalable and distributed FMEDA automation tool that provides the highest productivity with FMEA/FMEDA and unified failure activity processes

  
  

• TestMAX FuSa, which performs fast and early functional safety analysis at the RTL or gate level

  
  

• Z01X™ Fault Simulator for fast and reliable digital fault simulation

  
  

• VC Formal™ FuSa application to accelerate fault classification by applying formalized filtering

  
  

• TestMax CustomFault™ fault simulator, providing high-performance analog and mixed-signal fault simulation for full-chip functional safety and test coverage analysis

  
  

• ZeBu® simulator for performing fault simulation for long tests using extensive software

  
  

• Verdi® failure analysis for debugging, planning and coverage, including integration with industry-leading requirements traceability tools

  
  

• Certitude® Functional Verification Quality Management System to demonstrate the robustness of the verification process to support ISO 26262 Parts 8-9 assessments.

  
  

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Synopsys' native automotive solution will be generally available in December 2019.

About Synopsys

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the Silicon to Software™ partner for innovative companies developing the electronic products and software applications we rely on every day. As the world's 15th largest software company, Synopsys has a long history of being a global leader in electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor IP and is also growing its leadership in software security and quality solutions. Whether you're a system-on-chip (SoC) designer creating advanced semiconductors, or a software developer writing applications that require the highest security and quality, Synopsys has the solutions you need to deliver innovative, high-quality, secure products.