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This month Nithya asked me to contribute a post on hybrid prototyping and add some color to how design teams have been benefitting from integration between virtual and FPGA-based prototypes. It’s been about six months since Synopsys announced the availability of a data exchange which links a Virtualizer Development Kit (VDK) to the HAPS FPGA-based prototyping system based on AMBA transactors and the HAPS UMRBus interface kit. Since that time we have further validated popular use scenarios for a hybrid prototype. So, what are the cases where there’s a benefit to connecting a SystemC TLM based model to an FPGA-based prototype?