Synopsys sold 3000 copies of its virtual prototyping book

Synopsys reported it has distributed more than 3000 copies of the Better Software. Faster! book on virtual prototyping to more than 1000 companies. Synopsys has made available this book in Chinese language Mandarin, and is also soon to make it available in Japanese language by the end of the year. Virtual prototyping helps design engineers to test the software before the SOC chip or the electronic product available by using virtual prototypes of the electronic system or the chip. Below is the EE Herald's earlier interaction with Mr. Joachim Kunkel, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Solutions Group on Virtual prototyping trends: Key Trend and applications of virtual prototyping: Joachim Kunkel: What we are seeing is virtual prototyping has established itself as methodology for early software development in two industries, in the mobile/portable consumer (electronics) industry and the automotive industry. What we are seeing in automotive industry is customers are using our virtualizer tools for describing the ECU for a virtual prototype of ECU and combining that with simulation prototype model for mechanical portion. Relying on Virtual Prototype for complete development of product: Joachim Kunkel: For what we are seeing is that our customers are doing pretty much the complete development of virtual prototype and then obviously they take the software that ...