What are the architecture challenges in avionics? There are a number of challenges that can arise in the architecture of avionics systems, including:1. Complexity: Avionics systems can be complex, with many different components and subsystems that need to be integrated and tested. This can make it difficult to design and build an architecture that is […]

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Would you take this approach? I had a conversation this evening with a customer and an interesting topic came up. For early software development, especially for firmware, do you really need a Instruction Set Simulator? Could you use discrete-event simulation model with the code compiled to the x86 be sufficient? There are some advantages to […]

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Hundreds of companies have come along to replace Excel. There are Salesforce, Workday, and Mirabilis Design Inc. Each company has tried to nimble at one specific use-case of Excel. They have improved on the rudimentary features offered by Excel and customized it for a target application. For example, in the design of electronic systems, Excel […]

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Processor architecture is the most complex piece of electronics. There are so many variations of processing- CPU, GPU, TPU, NPU, DSP and AI Accelerators. The cache/memory, bus topology and software partitioning is heavily oriented towards the application. Designing processors require significant knowledge of the execution pipeline, buffering, load/store, branch prediction, dispatcher, out-of-order and SIMD/MIMD. To size […]

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Most product design fail because of communication inconsistency. 25 years ago Scott McNealy did not permit PowerPoint in any meeting at Sun Microsystems. Rumour has it that Jeff Bezos does not permit the use of PowerPoint during meetings at Amazon. PowerPoint is good for high-level presentations to executives, and folks that do not have to […]

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