The rapid change in today’s design environment requires a programmable solution that provides the highest performance and lowest power at the lowest cost. To meet the needs of high-volume systems, it is essential that the solution uses the latest 45 nm high-volume technology.

Industry dynamics are driving seemingly insatiable demand for higher bandwidth and higher system-level performance while facing more stringent mandatory requirements to reduce power consumption. At the same time, competitive pressures are forcing customers to increase productivity without sacrificing innovation and differentiation. To meet these demands, Xilinx(r) 7 series FPGAs leverage the unprecedented power, performance, and capacity enabled by TSMC’s 28 nm high-k metal gate (HKMG), high performance, low power (HPL) process technology and the unparalleled scalability afforded by the FPGA[] industry’s first unified silicon architecture to provide a comprehensive platform base for next-generation systems.

This paper provides an in-depth look at Synopsys’ new UMRBus (Universal Multi-Resource Bus) interface – the unique communications architecture that provides users of HAPS systems with: a built-in mechanism that allows bi-directional data exchange for more efficient debug; co-simulation for fast system bring-up; accelerated transaction-based verification and a physical connection to virtual prototyping environments through standard SCE-MI interfaces.