How to Accelerate Pre-Silicon Ethernet Verification

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Expose Design Issues Before Tape-Out

Pre-silicon Ethernet ASIC and SoC verification becomes challenging when engineers need to exercise forwarding logic, buffering behavior, and protocol handling before physical hardware exists. Test teams must reproduce realistic Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic conditions, vary packet characteristics and traffic scale, and determine whether the design behaves correctly across normal, stressed, and corner-case scenarios.

The verification workflow requires a virtual traffic environment connected to the hardware emulation platform so engineers can generate controlled Ethernet traffic before tape-out. Engineers compare expected and observed forwarding behavior, monitor throughput and latency, and investigate failures that emerge only under scale or complex traffic patterns. This allows design defects to be isolated while the silicon design can still be modified.

Accelerated Pre-Silicon Ethernet Verification Solution

Perform pre-silicon Ethernet verification by connecting a virtual traffic test environment to the hardware emulation platform and exercising the design with repeatable Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic. IxVerify provides the traffic generation and protocol test capabilities needed to validate network processor behavior before silicon is available. Engineers can create realistic traffic scenarios, scale test conditions, measure throughput and latency, and verify forwarding behavior while the design runs in emulation. The workflow helps teams reproduce failures, compare expected and observed results, and debug design issues earlier in development before those issues are committed to tape-out.

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800GE Validation Using IxVerify Virtual Solution and Synopsys ZeBu Emulator

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IxVerify — Industry’s Only Solution Purpose-Built for Pre-Silicon Testing
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800GE Validation Using IxVerify Virtual Solution and Synopsys ZeBu Emulator

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Interface	Virtual
License types	Subscription - 1 year
Ports	20
Protocols	Ethernet MACsec PTP/gPTP TSN
Technology	Emulation Testing
Form factor	Virtual edition

How to Accelerate Pre-Silicon Ethernet Verification

Expose Design Issues Before Tape-Out

Accelerated Pre-Silicon Ethernet Verification Solution

See Demo Video of Accelerated Pre-Silicon Ethernet Verification Solution

Explore Products in Our Accelerated Pre-Silicon Ethernet Verification Solution

939-9991 IxVerify 20-Port Floating Subscription Bundle

939-9991 IxVerify 20-Port Floating Subscription Bundle

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IxVerify — Industry’s Only Solution Purpose-Built for Pre-Silicon Testing

800GE Validation Using IxVerify Virtual Solution and Synopsys ZeBu Emulator