Hyperstone Selects Synopsys VCS

Hyperstone GmbH, a semiconductor and microprocessor design company, and Synopsys, Inc., providing software, IP and services used to accelerate innovation in chips and electronic systems, announced that Hyperstone has selected Synopsys as the provider of verification tools for its safety-critical designs.

Hyperstone’s complex SoCs target industrial, automotive and medical applications where high quality and reliability are required. For Hyperstone, Synopsys’ industry VCS functional verification solution fulfilled the technology needs for this level of quality and reliability.

“Our new S8 SD 3.0 and eMMC 4.4 industrial flash memory card controller is designed to deliver the highest level of reliability and data retention when using innovative sub-20-nm MLC flash technologies. Tying state-of-the-art error-correction code to our proven high Reliability firmware architecture ensures the highest levels of endurance and reliability that our customers are used to,” said Axel Mehnert, VP marketing, Hyperstone. “Our mission is enabling future NAND flashes and advanced technologies to be fit for use, especially within industrial, ruggedized applications. This requires the robust verification and analysis provided to us uniquely by Synopsys’ VCS functional verification solution. No other technology had the capacity, performance, advanced verification features and reliability to verify such complex designs.”

“SoCs used in safety-critical and industrial markets are growing in size and complexity, requiring high-reliability, high-capacity and high-performance verification technology,” said Rohit Vora, VP of R&D, Synopsys’ verification group. “We continue to collaborate with industry leaders in this space, such as Hyperstone, to offer unique verification technology targeted for this growing market.“