Visit Mirabilis Design at Booth 761
Semiconductor design is no longer only about building a faster chip. Today’s products must deliver performance, power efficiency, thermal control, software readiness, workload scalability, and system-level reliability before hardware is available.
At DAC 2026, Mirabilis Design will demonstrate how VisualSim Architect enables semiconductor and system teams to model, simulate, and optimize complex architectures before RTL, implementation, or physical prototypes. To schedule a private session or to discuss your project, schedule at https://calendly.com/mirabilisdesign/interview_2026. if you just happen to walk-by, ask for Darryl, Deepak, Kesudh, Janani or James!
Build the Right Architecture Before RTL
Modern SoCs, chiplets, AI accelerators, automotive electronics, aerospace systems, and data-center platforms are too complex to evaluate in isolation. A design decision made at the chip level can impact software timing, memory traffic, system latency, power, thermal behavior, and final product performance.
VisualSim Architect provides an executable architecture model that connects:
- Semiconductor architecture exploration
- Hardware/software partitioning
- AI, DSP, RF, and control algorithm behavior
- Workload and traffic modeling
- Power, thermal, latency, throughput, and utilization analysis
- Requirements validation and verification planning
- System-level integration before hardware is built
The result is a faster way to evaluate trade-offs, identify bottlenecks, and reduce late-stage surprises.
The Semiconductor Challenge
Chip teams must make critical architecture decisions early, often before enough implementation detail is available. Key questions include:
- How many CPUs, GPUs, NPUs, DSPs, accelerators, or XPUs are required?
- Which NoC, bus, cache, memory controller, or storage architecture is best?
- Will the design meet latency, bandwidth, power, and thermal targets?
- How will real workloads stress the architecture?
- Where will contention occur across compute, memory, interconnect, and interfaces?
- How will software scheduling, operating systems, and middleware affect performance?
- Can requirements be validated before RTL and prototype availability?
VisualSim helps answer these questions at the architecture level, when changes are still practical and cost-effective.
What VisualSim Architect Enables
VisualSim Architect allows engineering teams to create a digital model of the complete semiconductor platform and its operating environment.
Teams can evaluate:
- SoC and chiplet architecture
- AI accelerator and XPU performance
- NoC, bus, cache, and memory subsystem behavior
- DDR, HBM, CXL, storage, and interface traffic
- Workload mapping across compute resources
- Software task scheduling and OS impact
- Power, thermal, latency, throughput, and utilization
- Failure behavior, environmental variation, and corner cases
- Requirements compliance before hardware implementation
This gives teams a practical way to explore architecture choices before committing to RTL, silicon, boards, or system prototypes.
Semiconductor and SoC Modeling Coverage
VisualSim includes pre-built architecture libraries for full-chip and platform-level modeling, including:
- CPU, GPU, NPU, DSP, FPGA, accelerator, and XPU models
- NoC, bus, switch, interconnect, cache, and memory hierarchy models
- Memory controllers, DDR, HBM, CXL, storage, and interface models
- Workload, traffic, queueing, arbitration, and scheduling models
- Power, thermal, latency, throughput, utilization, and bottleneck analysis
- Hardware/software mapping and task-flow execution
- Real-time software, RTOS, RHEL, Wind River, Kubernetes, and middleware behavior
These models allow teams to analyze how the chip behaves under real system workloads, not just isolated benchmark assumptions.
From Chip to System
The value of semiconductor architecture is ultimately measured at the system level. VisualSim connects chip architecture to the larger product environment.
VisualSim supports modeling of:
- RF, antenna, channel, and DSP behavior
- Analog, digital, and real-number system behavior
- Electrical, mechanical, power, and thermal effects
- Automotive, aerospace, defense, communications, and data-center systems
- Pods, racks, servers, accelerators, storage, networking, and workload distribution
- Requirements management and verification workflows
This allows teams to evaluate not only whether the chip works, but whether the complete system meets its mission, performance, power, thermal, and compliance goals.
Why This Matters
Architecture decisions made too late can create costly redesigns, missed requirements, software delays, integration failures, and performance gaps.
VisualSim helps teams:
- Explore architecture trade-offs earlier
- Reduce dependence on physical prototypes
- Identify bottlenecks before RTL
- Improve hardware/software alignment
- Validate requirements continuously
- Analyze power, thermal, latency, and throughput risks
- Connect semiconductor design to system-level outcomes
- Accelerate delivery of complex electronics and mission-critical platforms
See VisualSim Architect at DAC 2026
At DAC 2026, Mirabilis Design will show how semiconductor and system teams can use VisualSim Architect to move from disconnected analysis to executable architecture modeling.
Whether you are designing an AI SoC, chiplet platform, automotive controller, aerospace electronics system, defense platform, or data-center accelerator architecture, VisualSim helps answer the most important question early:
Will this architecture meet the real performance, power, thermal, software, and system requirements before hardware is built?
Visit Mirabilis Design at DAC 2026, Booth 761 to see how VisualSim Architect can help you model, analyze, and verify your next semiconductor or system architecture. To schedule a private session or to discuss your project, schedule at https://calendly.com/mirabilisdesign/interview_2026. if you just happen to walk-by, ask for Darryl, Deepak, Kesudh, Janani or James!
