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Ah, the joys of summer vacations and scheduling around them. I was disappointed that Synopsys was to have a press release while I was on vacation – especially when it was on one of my favorite topics – virtual prototypes. To make matters worse, by the time I got back, their key guy was about to start his vacation – but Mark Serughetti agreed to spend some time talking to me and we had a great chat.

Now given that everyone else will have already regurgitated their release and the plentiful other pieces of information that Synopsys normally supplies with their releases, I will not bore you with that, except to put a context in place. Synopsys bought several companies recently including CoWare, and Vast and a few years before that Virtio. This is their bringing together of those technologies and using them to create Virtualizer – a product that focuses on analysis and debug, and flow integration. All models developed for those prior products are fully compatible with this product, but going forward the preferred modeling language is SystemC TLM, although any language can be used under the hood for even more performance.