Synopsys, Inc. announced the availability of the industry's first Verification IP (VIP) for Compute Express Link 2.0 designed for breakthrough performance in data-intensive system-on-chips (SoCs). CXL is the next-generation open standard interconnect that enables an ecosystem for high-speed communication between the CPU and workload accelerators, such as GPUs, FPGAs and other purpose-built accelerator solutions, as well as memory expansion devices. The technology is built upon the well-established PCI Express® infrastructure, leveraging the PCI Express 5.0 physical and electrical interface.