ALISO VIEJO, Calif.,
April 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/
-- Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC), a leading
provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power,
security, reliability and performance, today announced its
collaboration with MathWorks®, a leading developer of mathematical
computing software for engineers and scientists, to launch hardware
support for field programmable gate array (FPGA)-in-the-loop (FIL)
verification workflow with Microsemi FPGA development boards. The
new integrated FIL workflow with HDL Coder™ and HDL Verifier™ from
MathWorks enables customers to automatically generate test benches
for hardware description language (HDL) verification, including
VHSIC Hardware Description Language (VHDL) and Verilog, providing
rapid prototyping and verification of designs.
The collaboration with MathWorks enables customers to
integrate MATLAB®, a programming environment for algorithm
development, data analysis, visualization and numeric computation,
and Simulink®, a graphical environment for simulation and
Model-Based Design, with Microsemi's SmartFusion™2 system-on-chip
(SoC) FPGA and PolarFire® FPGA development boards, which allows the
stimulation of designs through FIL verification workflow using
Microsemi's development boards. FIL verification workflow enables
customers to analyze the results back in MATLAB and Simulink.
"With the ever-increasing complexity in algorithm designs, it
has become imperative for designers to quickly design and validate
their algorithms on real hardware," said Shakeel Peera, vice president FPGA marketing for
Microsemi. "This integrated FPGA-in-the-loop workflow of Microsemi
FPGA boards with MathWorks HDL Verifier will allow system engineers
and algorithm developers to quickly prototype and implement their
MATLAB and Simulink designs on Microsemi FPGA development boards
through our Libero SoC Design Suite."
Microsemi's collaboration with MathWorks enables a unified
workflow to verify designs comprehensively. It integrates
Microsemi's Libero SoC Design Suite—a comprehensive, easy to learn,
easy to adopt development toolset for designing with Microsemi's
FPGAs and SoC FPGAs—with MATLAB and Simulink for design
verification, and provides FIL verification with Microsemi FPGA
boards. This allows customers to catch bugs early in the design
cycle, helping reduce time to market and enabling early
verification.
"MATLAB and Simulink are widely used by engineers to develop
algorithms targeting FPGAs," said Paul
Barnard, director of marketing for the Simulink product
family at MathWorks. "Now that HDL Verifier supports FIL for
Microsemi development kits, engineers can connect designs
implemented on these FPGA boards directly to MATLAB and Simulink
test benches, streamlining a crucial validation step in developing
safety-critical avionics, space and other applications."
Delivering the industry's first FIL feature for Microsemi boards
with MATLAB and Simulink, the collaboration provides HDL Verifier
Support Package for Microsemi FPGA, a hardware support package for
SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA and PolarFire FPGA development boards, and an
integrated workflow from algorithms to implementation. Leveraging
HDL Verifer, enabled by Microsemi's Accelerate Ecosystem, makes
Microsemi's FPGAs ideal for a wide variety of applications within
the aerospace and defense, security, industrial and medical
markets, including motor control and imaging, digital signal
processing, communication systems, machine vision and imaging
systems, control systems, military communications, and payload and
radio processing.
The usage of FPGA verification significantly reduces timelines
and development costs and has experienced considerable adoption in
defense, automotive and industrial markets, leading to a booming
$68 million for FPGA verification
since September 2017 (as of
March 2018), growing at a compound
annual growth rate (CAGR) of nearly 8 percent through 2025
according to IndustryARC. The market research firm also notes FPGA
verification has an untapped potential market (total addressable
market, or TAM) of $425 million with
a tapped service addressable market (SAM) of $141 million.
About Microsemi's Accelerate Ecosystem
Microsemi's
Accelerate Ecosystem facilitates collaboration between Microsemi
and leading firms in the semiconductor integrated circuit (IC), IP,
systems, software, tools and design spaces to integrate, test and
deliver pre-validated designs and system-level solutions for end
customers in Microsemi's key vertical markets—aerospace and
defense, data center, communications and industrial. The Accelerate
Ecosystem is designed to reduce time-to-market for end customers
and time-to-revenue for Microsemi and ecosystem members via
technology alignment, joint marketing and sales acceleration. Learn
more at
https://www.microsemi.com/product-directory/4194-partners.
Product Availability
Microsemi's SmartFusion2 and
PolarFire FPGAs, and their complementary development boards, are
available now, and MathWorks' HDL Coder and HDL Verifier are also
available now. For more information, visit
http://www.microsemi.com/products/fpga-soc/fpgas and
https://www.mathworks.com/products/hdl-verifier.html, respectively,
or contact sales.support@microsemi.com.
About Microsemi's FPGAs
Microsemi's new cost-optimized
PolarFire FPGAs deliver the industry's lowest power at mid-range
densities with exceptional security and reliability. The product
family features 12.7 Gbps SerDes transceivers at up to 50 percent
lower power than competing FPGAs. With densities spanning from
100K to 500K logic elements (LEs), the non-volatile
PolarFire product family consumes 10 times less static power than
competitive devices and features an even lower standby power
referred to as Flash*Freeze. The company's IGLOO™2 FPGAs and
SmartFusion2 SoC FPGAs deliver more resources in low density
devices, with the lowest power, proven security and exceptional
reliability. The devices offer 30-50 percent more power efficiency
and are ideal for general purpose functions such as Gigabit
Ethernet or dual PCI Express control planes, bridging functions,
input/output (I/O) expansion and conversion, video/image
processing, system management and secure connectivity. Microsemi's
RTG4 FPGAs bring new capabilities to the market and combine a
wealth of features with the highest quality and reliability to meet
the increasing demands of modern satellite payloads. RTG4's
reprogrammable flash technology offers complete immunity to
radiation-induced configuration upsets in the harshest radiation
environments, without the configuration scrubbing required with
SRAM FPGA technology.
About Microsemi
Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq: MSCC)
offers a comprehensive portfolio of semiconductor and system
solutions for aerospace & defense, communications, data center
and industrial markets. Products include high-performance and
radiation-hardened analog mixed-signal integrated circuits, FPGAs,
SoCs and ASICs; power management products; timing and
synchronization devices and precise time solutions, setting the
world's standard for time; voice processing devices; RF solutions;
discrete components; enterprise storage and communication
solutions, security technologies and scalable anti-tamper products;
Ethernet solutions; Power-over-Ethernet ICs and midspans; as well
as custom design capabilities and services. Microsemi is
headquartered in Aliso Viejo,
California and has approximately 4,800 employees globally.
Learn more at www.microsemi.com.
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developer of mathematical computing software for engineers and
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array (FPGA)-in-the-loop (FIL) workflow with Microsemi development
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