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Cadence entered a new marketplace with the recent introduction of the Rapid Prototyping Platform, an FPGA-based prototyping environment that supports pre-silicon software development and system validation. The Rapid Prototyping Platform is part of the tightly integrated System Development Suite, which also includes virtual prototyping, simulation, and acceleration/emulation.  In this interview Juergen Jaeger, senior product marketing manager at Cadence, talks about the limitations and challenges of FPGA-based prototyping today and discusses some of the capabilities provided by the Rapid Prototyping Platform.

In a previous interview Michał Siwiński of Cadence discussed the hardware/software integration challenges that are addressed by the System Development Suite. A subsequent interview with Steve Brown provided more detail about the Virtual System Platform.

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