Hardware devices

Complete package of hardware components such as shared buses, switches, crossbars, bridges and DMA

Hardware Devices

  • DMA
    Table-based customized DMA for use with and without a CPU
  • Bridge
    Parameter-based customized interface for use with 10 different protocols including PCIe and AXI
  • Switch/Crossbar/Serial Switch
    Backbone switch for use in SoC and systems
  • FPGA
    Multiple generations of Xiling FPGA including Virtex 4, Zynq 7000 and Ultrascale
  • Clock Tree
    Clock distribution to simulate jitters
  • UART
    Synchronous and asynchronous receiver-transmitter
  • Hardware-in-the-Loop
    Interface to instruments and FPGA boards for connecting to data sources, hardware and software executing code

Hardware devices are helpful in parameter based customization. The SoC is basically an integrated circuit, with all the parts of a computer on one single chip. The SoC is what defines a mobile device and it contains within it the processor cores, the graphics chips, the cellular radios, mobile RAM, image processors, audio/video decoders and so on. The consolidation of all these seemingly separate-function parts on a single chip also helps in keeping the power requirements lower. These days you get SoCs which can easily beat the desktop system configs from say five years back. And with every successive generation the SoCs are getting even more impressive. Some examples are the switch, crossbar or serial bus. Some of the hardware devices are the switch, crossbar and the FPGA’s.

VisualSim Architect provides you the facility to design a complete design which may contain analog, digital or mixed signal functions. These are provided in the blocks mentioned under library with various blocks supporting each function needed to design a product. After the simulation, once can check and analyze through parameters like the energy consumed or the bus analysis.