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 is used to study the architecture of the proposed system. The information is taken from the component data sheet, values entered into cells of the Excel sheet and out printed the latency and throughput. The traffic and use-cases were built up using the existing system and eventually a Proof-of-Concept is constructed. This worked well with sequential processing and fairly straight-forward schedule.
As schedule gets more complex, multi-core is the hardware system and parallel processing is requirement to achieve the response times, using Excel and measurements alone cannot be used determine the optimal architecture.
Mirabilis Design chips away at this application of Excel. The pre-build Application Templates provide ready-to-go models that can be simulated with different parameter sweeps, electronic components, topologies, mapping applications to the hardware, use cases and workloads. The linking of the Requirements database and the integration of an AI-based diagnostic engine into the simulator allows for quick detection of bottlenecks and identifies opportunities to minimize risks. The add-on failure generation provides for regression tests in real life situation. These models generate latency, throughput, buffer usage, quality-of-service, hardware efficiency, reliability, power consumption and thermal metrics.
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