Case Study: Baikal Electronics achieves faster prototype availability and improved SoC quality with Synopsys HAPS and Virtualizer

Baikal Electronics - Customer Case Study

Baikal Electronics, a Moscow-based developer of MIPS and ARM multi‑kernel SoCs for industrial and consumer devices, faced a complex SoC bring‑up challenge: they needed an executable hardware/software integration platform to trap HW/SW interaction errors early, enable software development before the RTL was complete, and support scalable capacity (>20M up to ~100M ASIC gates) with flexible IP styles and advanced debugging.

Baikal implemented a staged hybrid prototyping flow using Synopsys Virtualizer and Platform Architect TLM models combined with the HAPS‑70 FPGA prototyping system, AMBA transactors and UMRBus connectivity. By moving from an initial virtual CPU/memory plus RTL peripherals (DUT0) to a two‑FPGA physical prototype (DUT2), the team booted Linux, found and fixed functional errors early, accelerated driver and integration work, and measurably improved RTL quality and time‑to‑prototype.

Baikal Electronics

Pavel Osipenko

Head of R&D Department