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Siemens adds pre-silicon simulation for Arm Cortex-A720AE for software-defined vehicles

March 26, 2024

Siemens Digital Industries Software has announced the addition of accelerated pre-silicon development in the cloud to its hardware-assisted verification product offering. The new offering, PAVE360 software, is designed for Software Defined Vehicles (SDV) and is the first accelerated simulation environment to support the new Arm® Cortex®-A720AE CPU semiconductor IP, launched in March 2024.

The solution is a result of Siemens’ collaboration with Arm and AWS, announced in late 2023. The integration of select partner enablement solutions to the cloud-based development platform will allow tier-one suppliers and OEMs to develop early software for Arm’s new Cortex-A720AE IP. This is a departure from the traditional practice of waiting for silicon before being able to develop software for the latest semiconductor IP.

The new approach enables automotive software teams to shift-left, providing extremely fast cloud-based simulation speeds for iterative pre-silicon software development, debugging, and validation long before first silicon availability. The PAVE360 cloud-based software development solution, delivered on AWS cloud services, offers simulation speeds that rival those of evaluation boards and removes the reliance on conventional slow on-premises modeling and simulation infrastructures. The solution is currently available to select software ecosystem partners, tier-one suppliers, and OEMs, with broad availability planned for the future.

“The automotive industry’s move to the software defined vehicle means that traditional software and hardware development processes are no longer valid and must evolve to meet the industry’s demands,” said Mike Ellow, Executive Vice President, Electronic Design Automation, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Our partnership with Arm, supporting an accelerated simulation environment with Cortex-A720AE CPU, is helping to address automotive industry challenges by reducing time-to-market for SDV software through the availability of accelerated automotive platforms well ahead of silicon.”