PARTNERS

Universe Program

Virtual 1^st Silicon Improves Time To Market

Through its Universe partner program, VaST and its partners deliver on the long-standing promise of concurrent hardware and software design and the numerous benefits that result.

Working with its partners VaST has developed a growing catalog of virtual processor models. This Virtual 1^st Silicon™ is a high-speed, cycle-accurate software model of a system on chip (SOC) that enables architecture analysis and optimization plus full software development well in advance of actual first silicon.

The enabling technology behind Virtual 1^st Silicon is production-proven at leading semiconductor companies and their customers worldwide.

VaST Universe formalizes the process by which Virtual 1^st Silicon is developed, distributed, and jointly marketed with semiconductor suppliers. Together with VaST, semiconductor suppliers model the complete SoC including processor cores, peripheral devices, buses and bus interface units. This Virtual 1^st silicon is then available to the embedded software developer for development of the target software. VaST and the semiconductor supplier work together to provide tools flow integration and technical support to the end customer.

Virtual First Silicon Partners

Below is a partial list of key Virtual First Silicon IP available from VaST, with links to VaST Universe partners' websites.

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