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	            <title><![CDATA[Is Synopsys getting ready to buy EVE?: Is Synopsys getting ready to buy EVE? ]]></title>
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	            	            Brian,
The idea of hybrid of virtual platform and HW-assisted verification is not new. I have discussed the flow starting from virtual platforms with a hybrid of HW-assisted verification and eventually migration to emulation or FPGA-based prototyping several times in the last few years. Also, Cadence and its customers implemented this flow in the last few years.

1. Cadence introduced a combined solution of virtual platform and Palladium acceleration in 2004 -http://www.cdnusers.org/community/incisive/Itp_systemCbasedvirtualSoC.pdf
2. Cadence introduced a combined solution with Virtio and Palladium in 2006  
3. Cadence has created a native environment combining its SystemC simulator with Palladium
4.  Cadence introduced a combined solution with Palladium and Simics this year

Also, the idea of a hybrid platform combining TLM and HW acceleration is not new. Cadence announced its SCE-MI 1.0 in 2003/2004 and SCE-MI 2.0 in 2008/9. Cadence also delivered its support for SystemVerilog DPI and TLM 1.0 and TLM 2.0 in the last few of years.
Based on the latest announcement from Eve, the only news I see here is that Eve joined “the club” with their support of TLM 2.0 by implementing their own TLM 2.0 transactor. However they are still using their own proprietary interface ZEMI vs. the SCE-MI standards.

Ran Avinun
Cadence Design Systems
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