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This week Synopsys’ announced the availability of the DesignWare Hybrid IP Prototyping Kits: http://www.synopsys.com/IP/ip-accelerated/Pages/hybrid-ip-prototyping-kits.aspx The Synopsys DesignWare® Hybrid IP Prototyping Kits pre-integrate a Virtualizer™ Development Kit (VDK) and a DesignWare IP Prototyping Kit to accelerate IP prototyping, software development and integration of DesignWare IP in 64-bit ARM®-based designs. Hybrid IP Prototyping Kits enable designers to accelerate hardware/software integration and full system validation, thus reducing the overall product design cycle. The included Linaro® Linux® software stack, reference drivers, and pre-verified DesignWare IP reference design allow users to start implementing and validating IP in an SoC context in minutes.

Now I’ve spoken about Hybrid Prototyping a number of times, the most recent was Valuable Software Driven Validation where I discussed how users are deploying Hybrid Prototyping to accelerate IP validation. The DesignWare Hybrid IP Prototyping Kit of course comes with validated IP, Synopsys does that work, but many IP’s required customized drivers which are application specific. It’s this software development, within the context of a CPU subsystem, which the kit focuses on accelerating.