Right Design Decisions with Early System Exploration

Dec 09, 2015 | Author : Deepak Shankar

December 9, 2015 Deepak Shankar Blog

Creating a new System-on-Chip (SoC) for streaming video with a MPEG application requires a number of decisions to be made before development is scheduled. The design would have some amount of existing hardware and software components in the SoC. The new application such as H.264 application will have some known and mostly unknown characteristics. These […]

Importance of Performance modeling and trade-off analysis

Dec 02, 2015 | Author : Deepak Shankar

December 2, 2015 Deepak Shankar Blog

Performance analysis and early architecture exploration ensures that you will select the right hardware/software platform and achieve optimal partitioning of the application onto available resources. In product design, three factors are certain: specifications change, non-deterministic traffic and faster processing resources. Products operate where processing and resource consumption are a function of the data and user […]

System Design with Early System Exploration

Nov 30, 2015 | Author : Deepak Shankar

November 30, 2015 Deepak Shankar Blog

System Design creates the right “look and feel” of the product for the target application. System design enables early architecture exploration using incomplete information to create accurate system requirements. Early system design creates the highest quality product with the required response time and throughput; optimized for power consumption; and has the lowest cost. The end […]

Estimating Execution Time using Discrete-event Simulation for large complex Aerospace Systems

Nov 12, 2015 | Author : Deepak Shankar

November 12, 2015 Deepak Shankar Blog

Emerging, high-speed bus technologies and migration to multi-core platform requires detailed high-level system analysis before scheduling implementation. Systems engineers run multi-variant workloads to conduct a battery of trade-offs including task response time vs. power dissipated; distributed vs. centralized processing; and throughput vs. cost. Analytical means and over-provisioning cannot handle the system complexity required to identify […]

Fine-Grained Performance and Power Analysis