Right Design Decisions with Early System Exploration

Dec 09, 2015  |  Author : Deepak Shankar
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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 […]

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Importance of Performance modeling and trade-off analysis

Dec 02, 2015  |  Author : Deepak Shankar
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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 […]

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System Design with Early System Exploration

Nov 30, 2015  |  Author : Deepak Shankar
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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 […]

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Fine-Grained Performance and Power Analysis

Nov 12, 2015  |  Author : Deepak Shankar
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Architecture exploration, performance and power analysis early in the design flow are mandatory in modern SoC design flow due to complex multi-threaded applications and multi-core processing requirements. Instruction Set Simulator or ISS of a selected processor plays a very important role. However, Current Instruction Set Simulators (ISS) and platform modelers have detailed functional execution, tuned […]

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Selecting right processor for Next-Gen SoC

Nov 11, 2015  |  Author : Deepak Shankar
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Have you ever thought of having a systematic approach for selecting right processor for your upcoming SoC? Absolutely, every day we all think about it and finally go with our “gut feeling”. Selection of processor is becoming extremely complex day by day and is not at a straightforward task as opposed to early days of […]

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