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Virtual prototypes for early software development and high-level synthesis tools for hardware implementation are two important new technologies that are raising the abstraction level in electronic systems design. But these tools are traditionally isolated from one another because they require different types of models.

In this interview Mike "Mac" McNamara, vice president and general manager of the Cadence Systems Software Group, explains the modeling requirements for both types of tools, talks about what's needed to adapt virtual prototype models for implementation, and notes how Cadence has demonstrated a connection between virtual prototyping and high-level synthesis as part of TSMC Reference Flow 12.

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