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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Estimating Execution Time using Discrete-event Simulation for large complex Aerospace Systems

Nov 12, 2015  |  Author : Deepak Shankar
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Emerging, high-speed bus technologies and migration to multi-core platform requires detailed high-level system analysis before scheduling implementation. Systems engineers run multi-variant workloads to conduct a battery of trade-offs including task response time vs. power dissipated; distributed vs. centralized processing; and throughput vs. cost. Analytical means and over-provisioning cannot handle the system complexity required to identify […]

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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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Certification of IMA for Avionics System

Nov 03, 2015  |  Author : Deepak Shankar
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Real-time constraints, reconfigurability and safety have a direct impact on architecture design and on the validation/certification process, at the aircraft and system level. Current certification of Integrated Modular Architecture (IMA) avionics using network calculus cannot accurately predict communication and processing latency. Here is a solution for IMA-based avionics to generate certification tests, conduct what-if analysis, […]

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