VLAB® Tool Products

VLAB tool products are structured in a hierarchy with each tool generally being a superset of the previous tool.

VLAB Express

VLAB Software Suite

  • VLAB Express
  • VLAB Software Tools
    • Debug
    • Analysis/Profiling
    • Test
  • VLAB Software Debug Server

VLAB Suite

  • VLAB Software Suite
  • VLAB VP Debug and Analysis Tools
  • VLAB VP Authoring and Development Tools

VLAB Batch

  • Low Cost Automation

VLAB® Virtual Platform Products

  • ARM Virtual Platform Toolbox
    • ARM v7, v8, CPU, GPU and Primecell IP
  • Bosch GTM Virtual Platform Toolbox
  • Infineon AURIX 1G Virtual Platform Toolbox
    • AURIX TC27x, TC29x
  • Infineon AURIX 2G Virtual Platform Toolbox
    • AURIX TC38x, TC39x
  • NXP MPC5xxx Family Virtual Platform Toolbox
    • NXP PPC e200 based MPC56xx, 57xx
  • NXP QorIQ e5500 Family Virtual Platform Toolbox
    • NXP QorIQ T1040, P5040
  • NXP S32 Family Virtual Platform Toolbox
    • NXP S32xx
  • Renesas R-Car Gen 3 Family Virtual Platform Toolbox
    • Renesas R-Car H3, V3M, V3H
  • Renesas RH850 G3 Family Virtual Platform Toolbox
    • Renesas RH850 C1x, E1x. F1x, P1x
  • Renesas RH850 G4 Family Virtual Platform Toolbox
    • Renesas RH850 E2x, U2x
  • ST Micro SPC58x Family Toolbox
    • ST Micro SPC58NH90, SPC58NH92
  • Texas Instruments Jacinto 7 Family Virtual Platform Toolbox
    • Texas Instruments DRA8x, TDA4x
  • Texas Instruments Sitara Virtual Platform Toolbox
    • Texas Instruments AMxx
  • IQonIC Works RISC-V Family Virtual Platform Toolbox
    • IQonIC Works RISC-V MCU Platform
    • IQonIC Works USB C/PD Platform
    • IQonIC Works Intelligent Sensor Platform


VLAB® Product Components

VLAB® is a suite of products used by software and test engineers to accelerate their work by virtualizing the embedded product development process. From the first concept, through the development, test, and optimization phases and into deployment and field operations, all aspects of the embedded product life cycle can be optimized.

A VLAB Virtual Platform Toolbox contains a collection of virtual components configured to represent the system being developed, debugged, or tested. A Virtual Platform (VP) represents an embedded system where the CPU type, system architecture, and target operating system are likely different from the host.

The VP is controlled and configured from the VLAB Express GUI. It not only gives the embedded software engineer a repeatable platform on which to optimize their code, but also provides the test engineer with an easily controllable platform that is fully compatible with today’s popular automation and scripting frameworks.

For the user who wants added functionality, the VLAB Software Suite adds a full GUI debugging environment. This environment blends the symbolic debug of a desktop software debugger with the control and observability of a traditional embedded system mode debugger. The VLAB Software Debug Server enables 3rd party debuggers to connect to the VP as if the debugger were connected to a probe connected to a physical board. The GUI debug environment and the Debug Server can be used simultaneously giving the user unprecedented access, especially in cases where a 3rd party debugger can only address one cluster in a multi-cluster heterogeneous SoC. As with VLAB Express, all aspects, including state modification, are fully Python scriptable enabling automatic test execution and investigation of failures via a favorite IDE.

The VLAB Suite extends VLAB Software Suite with full access to the simulated hardware state. Every CPU and device register, every byte of RAM, and every I/O signal is now available for inspection and control. All of this functionality is fully scriptable. This brings debug and testing to a new level enabling the user to inject hardware faults allowing testing of fault recovery code. For the virtualization engineer the VLAB Suite includes VLAB Virtual Platform Authoring and Development Tools which provides the necessary tools, APIs, and frameworks for the development of models of new IP, and customization of the tools for integration into customer specific processes.

Once a user has prepared their environment for automation VLAB Batch provides a low-cost option to exploit parallelism. It contains all the same functionality in a totally non-interactive, ‘batch-mode’ package. Most users will develop test automation scripts using another VLAB product and run them non-interactively in VLAB Batch.