The market structure of EDA software has not changed much since its birth. Currently, 75% of the market is occupied by the "Big Three" Synopsys, Cadence, and Mentor. Domestically, in 2008, the "National Medium and Long-term Science and Technology Development Plan (2006-2020)" was released, in which EDA software was listed as a major project, and a number of EDA companies emerged in the country. The escalation of Sino-US trade friction in 2018 has also allowed domestic EDA to truly embark on the fast lane in recent years. More emerging EDA companies have emerged, and ChipEasy is one of them.
In the past, as Moore's Law continued to advance, general-purpose processor designs required little change and could double their efficiency by increasing the number of transistors. The era of big data is coming, but with the slowdown of Moore's Law, general-purpose processors have become increasingly unable to improve computing performance by increasing transistor density, and Domain Specific Architecture (DSA) has emerged.
The new generation of dedicated processor design tool FARMStudio developed by Xinyihui for the DSA field is specially created for application scenarios of intensive computing and complex data processing, empowering the ability to efficiently self-research and deeply optimize IP.
FARMStudio upgrades the "Cloud Virtual FPGA" function to make verification more convenient
As the world's first dedicated processor generation tool based on C language description, FARMStudio has achieved a breakthrough in agile design methodology and can effectively help chip design teams complete tasks such as DSA processor software and hardware functional division, architecture verification, and PPA evaluation in a shorter time. , using tools can greatly improve design efficiency and reduce design costs.
On top of basic functions, FARMStudio has the world's first multi-level verification environment, which realizes multiple levels of mutual verification from C language code to instruction-level cycle-accurate simulation, to circuit RTL simulation, to simulation on FPGA.
With the continuous upgrading of FARMStudio, Xinyihui has launched the "Cloud Virtual FPGA Verification" function, which eliminates the need for chip design companies to build an additional FPGA platform to help users verify quickly and conveniently.
"The deployment of FPGA is not convenient enough for application development engineers and architecture engineers. It still requires purchasing and deploying boards and configuring various peripherals and other operations. Our 'cloud virtual FPGA' will be more user-friendly, and users can handle it in the design process After installing the device, application development and board-level verification can be carried out directly on our platform." Zhang Weihang said.
Complementing tools, Xinyihui’s customized IP accelerates chip design
In addition to optimizing the automation and optimization of EDA tools and improving development efficiency, Xinyihui pre-makes the operators needed by customers in specific fields into modules and independently develops processor IP suitable for multiple fields, allowing customers to flexibly customize according to their needs. Requires the use of tools and greatly reduces usage costs.
"From the perspective of the overall IP service model of Xinyihui, we are currently divided into three types," Xu Ming, marketing director of Xinyihui, said, "The first is official standard IP, the second is customized IP for specific customers, and the third This is an IP developed jointly with customers and based on in-depth cooperation with FARMStudio."
Xu Ming said that the official standard IP is a series of general products created by Xinyihui in response to the common needs of many customer products in specific fields.
At present, Xinyihui has released E32 DSP series IP for the industrial control field, including E32B (basic configuration), E32F (floating point application), E32AI (AI application) and other different branches to facilitate customers to make refinements according to their own needs. s Choice.
