VisualSim Architect is a general-purpose modeling and simulation platform with a large library of system modeling components.

VisualSim Architect enables teams to design, test, and optimize complex electronic and embedded systems—before a single line of RTL or C code is written or a prototype is built. The system modeling components provide a full coverage of chiplets, semiconductors, embedded systems, software, networking and RF communication.

From semiconductors and Chiplets to software-defined systems, networks, imaging, control, and signal processing, VisualSim provides a unified environment to model ideas, run simulations, analyze trade-offs, and generate reports for fast, confident decision-making.

VisualSim Architect Snapshot

System-Level Modeling

Pre-development design and simulation of SoC, chiplet, software and system architectures​

Performance, Behavior & Power Analysis

Evaluate algorithms, signals, latency, throughput, failure and power across real workloads​

System Modeling Components

Vendor, standards, builders and application models. Integration of simulators, languages and requirements​

Semiconductors

Electronics

Software

Networking

RF

Why VisualSim?

In today’s technological race, design cycles are shrinking while complexity is skyrocketing. VisualSim Architect helps:

Engineers and Architects validate specifications early, explore design alternatives, and detect hidden bottlenecks.

Product Managers and Executives evaluate power, performance, and cost trade-offs to guide product strategy.

Verification Teams integrate C, C++, Java, Python, SystemC, RTL and hardware-in-the-loop (HiL) simulations to ensure the final design meets requirements.

Key Capabilities

Graphical, Hierarchical Modeling

Drag-and-drop block diagram modeling with support for hierarchy, reusable sub-systems, and version-controlled libraries.

Multi-Domain Simulation

Explore architectures that span hardware, software, analog, digital, and networks—all in one environment.

Extensive Modeling Libraries

69+ standards and 85+ application templates, plus 500 technology IP blocks, accelerate model creation and experimentation.

Multi-user development and user Infrastructure

Based on an Open DTD XML, with APIs and interfaces to third-party tools, simulators, and languages like C, C++, Java, JSON, VCD, traces, STK, SystemC, and MATLAB/Simulink.

Debugging & Validation

Built-in error detection, syntax checking, tracing, and logging ensure model accuracy. Graphical debuggers and report generators provide clear insights.

Scenario Exploration & Trade-offs

Quickly generate runs with different combinations of parameter values, traces, input files and configurations to performance, power, latency, throughput, and functional correctness across design options. Run “what-if” studies to optimize architectures for your unique goals.

Proven at Scale

Teams across semiconductor leaders, automotive innovators, aerospace agencies, and data center architects can share models and develop the final product. Over 250 products worldwide have been architected using VisualSim.

Requirements Management

Integrates requirements with the simulator to track the model operation in real-time to capture bottlenecks and assess the reason for the model to not meet the requirements.

Collaborative Multi-User Modeling with VisualSim Architect

VisualSim Architect is designed for a distributed, multi-user development environment. Each system element—such as a processor, NoC switch, or ECU—is defined as an independent XML component file containing modeling blocks, custom code, or scripts. A top-level system model integrates these components by reference, not by import, ensuring that updates to any component are automatically reflected across all linked models. Parameter values set in the system model remain intact even as underlying XML files evolve. This architecture enables teams across global locations to collaboratively build, refine…

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Design Exploration Examples

How does throughput scale when moving from a single-die AXI SoC to a multi-die UCIe-based SoC?

What is the latency and QoS impact of distributing autonomous driving workloads across multiple ECUs?

How much energy consumption varies across satellite orbits in a multi-role mission?

Which interconnect—PCIe or Ethernet—is more suitable for safety-critical avionics systems?

With VisualSim, these questions can be answered in hours, not months, with quantifiable data instead of assumptions.

Methodologies Supported

VisualSim Architect supports multiple industry-standard methodologies, including:

Y-Chart exploration (function ↔ architecture ↔ mapping)

Use-case to architecture mapping

Network flow modeling

Hardware/software partitioning

Benefits for Your Organization

Faster Time-to-Market

Catch problems early, shorten design cycles, and reduce re-spins.

Lower Development Costs

Evaluate trade-offs virtually before committing resources.

Better Collaboration

Engineers and management share a common modeling and reporting environment.

Future-Proof Designs

Explore new standards, topologies, and technologies with confidence.

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