Synopsys, announced its collaboration with Arm on the development of the Arm AGI CPU, a data center processor. Synopsys provided solutions from its full-stack design portfolio, including electronic design automation (EDA), interface IP, and hardware-assisted verification (HAV). The Arm AGI CPU is built on Arm Neoverse CSS V3. The companies worked together to optimize power, performance, and efficiency for complex AI workloads in data center environments.
Synopsys solutions applied to the project include:
Design tools: Synopsys VCS, Fusion Compiler, IC Validator, PrimeTime, and RedHawk-SC, along with support for synthesis, power integrity and reliability analysis, and signoff timing and physical verification. These tools address power, performance, and area requirements for high-performance computing and AI use cases on Arm-based architectures, supporting fast turnaround on advanced nodes.
Interface IP: Synopsys silicon-proven interface IP solutions for reliable high-performance design implementation and to accelerate interface subsystem development while reducing integration risk.
Hardware-assisted verification: Synopsys ZeBu Server 5 emulation platform combined with pre-verified IP-HAV solutions, plus Synopsys HAPS prototyping systems. These enable IP and subsystem bring-up, system-level verification, software development, and performance validation for complex data center workloads ahead of silicon availability.
The collaboration extends Arm and Synopsys’ ongoing work within the Arm Total Design ecosystem to accelerate custom silicon development and reduce design complexity for Neoverse Compute Subsystems.
Mohamed Awad, executive vice president of the Cloud AI Business Unit at Arm, stated that designing data center silicon for complex AI workloads requires rigorous full-system validation. He noted that the Arm AGI CPU reflects the strength of Arm’s SoC design and its collaboration with Synopsys, with their design, IP, and verification solutions supporting development and validation of the chip.
Ravi Subramanian, chief product management officer at Synopsys, commented on Arm’s delivery of the AGI CPU.
Synopsys’ portfolio of design, analysis, and verification solutions on Arm-based architectures supports data center-class requirements and low total cost of compute during development. The silicon-proven interface IP helps speed the path to production, while the emulation and prototyping systems provide the speed, accuracy, and fidelity needed for pre-silicon software confidence and system-scale validation.
The announcement continues the companies’ partnership to advance custom silicon for HPC and data center use cases.
