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So question: my understanding was th atat one point the cadence hardware emulators weren't FPGA based at their core, but instead custom chips with a sea of litt
by monocasa 3y ago
So question: my understanding was th atat one point the cadence hardware emulators weren't FPGA based at their core, but instead custom chips with a sea of little one bit processors that only knew about logic ops (with some FPGAs for interchip routing). Is Cadence using FPGAs for logic now too?
- wmf 3y agoIt looks like they have two versions: "Palladium Z2 emulation based on a new custom emulation processor offers fastest, most predictable compiles and most comprehensive pre-silicon hardware debug capabilities Protium X2 prototyping based on latest Xilinx UltraScale+ VU19P FPGAs offers highest performance and fastest bring-up times for pre-silicon software validation of billion-gate designs" https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/company/newsroom/press-releases/pr/2021/cadence-unveils-next-generation-palladium-z2-and-protium-x2-syst.html https://www.cadence.com/en_US/home/company/newsroom/press-re...
- throwaway280382 3y agoYes. Cadence now has two products. One is custom chip based emulator. Another is FPGA based. I worked on the first version of FPGA based emulator.