S2C PRODIGY Player Pro 6.3 advance FPGA Prototyping with Progressive Design Partition and Multi-FPGA Debug Capabilities

San Jose, CA, Jul. 06, 2016 – S2C Inc., a worldwide leader of FPGA-based prototyping solutions for today's innovative designs, announced today that its Prodigy™ Player Pro 6.3 Runtime and Compile Software allows for more advanced usage of FPGA prototyping with leading-edge partition and multiple FPGA debug capabilities for both Xilinx and Altera FPGA devices.

"We have been working closely with our customers to develop functionality that can truly help drive more efficient FPGA prototyping," said Toshio Nakama, CEO of S2C, Inc. "As a result, we are able to introduce technology in our next generation Prodigy Player Pro that will significantly ease the pain associated with partitioning and debug. These latest additions continue to reinforce the value that a complete prototyping platform delivers."

Advanced Partitioning

Although FPGA capacity has increased dramatically, today's complex designs still require quite a bit of partitioning that can be a painful process. S2C's latest edition of Prodigy Player Pro contains significant advances in multi-board partitioning capabilities to ease the burden. New features for compiling the design include:

• Virtex and Kintex UltraScale FPGA Support
  - Support for Pin Multiplexing using up to 1.6GHz LVDS
• Multi-Board Partition Flow
  - Fully automatic multi-board project set up with flexible cable connections
  - Mix Quad, Dual and Single Logic Modules from the same FPGA family
  - Cable set-up after partition to see performance impact
• Faster Partition Process
  - Black box design hierarchies that do not need to be involved in partitioning
  - Faster and improved partition engine
  - Auto-partitioning global constraint files based on design partition results and supported global clocks, critical paths and false paths
• Added features to improve partition results
  - Estimation of system performance before running FPGA P&R allows users to adjust partition strategy
  - Automatic generation of top-level simulation netlist

New features for controlling and monitoring the design include:

• Addition of Single/PCIe/Dual VU and Single/Quad KU support
• Addition of multi-board support (standalone & Cloud Cube mode)
• Prodigy daughter card auto detection and voltage protection functions

Multi-FPGA Debug

FPGA prototyping is also critical if your SoC design utilizes many commercial IPs making prototyping on FPGAs the most reliable method to ensure all these IPs work well together. FPGA prototypes can also be used as demo platforms to the SoC customers for getting them interested in the chip you build and allow you to work with them on improving features before chip tape-out. However, FPGA prototyping does come with some challenges: Long Bring-Up Time Performance Reusability Design Partitioning Debug-ability.

S2C will be demoing both its Prodigy Player Pro 6.3 and its beta version of the Prodigy Multi-Debug Module at this year's Design Automation Conference booth #1928 in Austin, TX from June 6-8.

About S2C

Founded and headquartered in San Jose, California, S2C has been successfully delivering rapid SoC prototyping solutions since 2003. S2C provides:

• Rapid FPGA-based prototyping hardware and automation software
• Prototype Ready™ IP, interfaces and platforms
• System-level design verification and acceleration tools

With over 200 customers, S2C's focus is on SoC/ASIC development to reduce the SoC design cycle. Our highly qualified engineering team and customer-centric sales force understands our users' SoC development needs. S2C systems have been deployed by leaders in consumer electronics, communications, computing, image processing, data storage, research, defense, education, automotive, medical, design services, and silicon IP. S2C is headquartered in San Jose, CA with offices and distributors around the globe including the UK, Israel, China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan. For more information, visitwww.s2cinc.com.