System-level Models- How well do they correlate with the implementation?

Oct 10, 2015  |  Author : Deepak Shankar
Deepak Shankar Blog

System engineers and hardware/software architects are always worried about the correlation between a system-level model and RTL. Also, can a system-level model achieve the fidelity and accuracy of the actual implementation. We at Mirabilis Design, have evolved a methodology that allows the user to create a design flow that incorporates all the checks and balances […]

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SSD and Power Reduction

Oct 10, 2015  |  Author : Deepak Shankar
Deepak Shankar Blog

Today’s processing is very data dependent.  This means that the processing core is no longer the bottleneck.  With the addition of multi-core there is significant trade-off and reduction available cache.  In the past, hit-ratios were used to measure the performance of the system and MIPS was the final throughput number.  Video processing and multi-media applications […]

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