AMD Introduces World’s Largest FPGA-Based Adaptive SoC for Emulation

Re:AMD Introduces World’s Largest FPGA-Based Adaptive SoC fo... by monocasa on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @01:00PM (#36495683)

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?

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Re:AMD Introduces World’s Largest FPGA-Based Adaptive SoC fo... by wmf on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @03:40PM (#36497660)

It 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-re...

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Re:AMD Introduces World’s Largest FPGA-Based Adaptive SoC fo... by throwaway280382 on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @06:46PM (#36499749)

Yes. 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.

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