Customer 1: Create an environment for prototyping a spacecraft in 6 days.

• Model complex architectures at the “entire spacecraft” level
• Evaluate performance and energy consumption based on mission geometry and ambient power available.
• Demonstrate the “goodness” (and “poor-ness”) of choices in technology and topologies to guide investment decisions
• Examples
• Communications platforms: (network congestion, buffering, as a function of link geometries, theatre traffic demands) for a constellation of spacecrafts. Use individual VisualSim models for each spacecraft in the constellation.
• Surveillance platforms: Explore theatre geometry, power availability and impacts of radiation environments (model as glitches with varying probability based on geographic position of satellite).

Customer 2: Select processors and add-on cards for tanks and other fighting vehicles.

• Replace the existing pencil and paper solution with confidence of 200-400%
• Conduct trade-off between power and performance of the processor and associated peripheral devices on the board
• Utilize VisualSim Explorer for training of field service agents at remote Army Bases on trouble shooting the UAV vehicle
• Create state machine models for use as specifications for the software developers

Customer 3: Conduct trade-off studies to design a network processing ASIC.

• Evaluate the queuing aspects and decision points in the core router
• Maximize the throughput and identify bottlenecks in the router system
• Determine optimal processing ASIC architecture

Customer 4: Modeling the detailed flows of the PCI-Express bus interface.

• Create a message-based transaction model for the activity sequence between storage devices and a suite of cache and Pentium on the other side of the PCI-Express
• Determine the Mega Bytes per second, I/Os per second, and sequence latency for a variety of user data flows
• Model the routes of individual and multiple transactions through two switch topologies in either a forward, or reverse flow

Customer 5: To explore the optimal cache architecture.

• Model various cache algorithm and implementation scenarios
• Interface to embedded processors for detailed and cycle-accurate architecture design
• Determine hit-ratio and utilization for a variety of software programs executing on the processor

Customer 6: Create a Network Flight Simulator.

• Create a library of network components for quick drag n’ drop modeling
• Combine the network model with a constellation dynamics in Satellite Toolkit from Analytics Graphics Inc.
• Analyze effective and overall bandwidth utilization

Customer 7: Designing a 40Gbps Transport and Storage High-Performance Processor.

• Architectural validation through a host of dynamic traffic and process work loads.
• Generate feedback on key performance metrics including latency and utilization of shared resources, work queue build up and Quality of Service (QOS) efficiency throughout the SOC.
• Analsysi validated the architecture choices, profiled the system performance and provided key metrics to the design leads at an early stage of the SOC development process

Customer 8: Optimize the performance of a multi-port Gigabit Ethernet Switches.

• Adopt system capabilities to identify corner cases and perform chip verification early in the design cycle
• Enable a platform that will quickly explore ideas; marketing teams to generate early performance data for design-wins; and platform to debug ongoing customer problems in the field
• Introduce an architectural design phase into the design flow with minimal disruption and an accelerated response time

Customer 9: System design software and services for the next generation Integrated Shipboard Systems.

• Create a virtual prototyping environment to validate the requirements and generate a comprehensive hardware and software architecture specification
• Increase systems engineering productivity, enable greater levels of collaboration across design teams and achieve greater technical innovation
• Common modeling mechanism for systems engineers, hardware and software designers; graphical depiction for demonstration and design review; and scalability to support very large systems.