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A View from the Top: A Virtual Prototyping Blog

Archive for the 'Power Management' Category

 

Linux and the Big Bad Wolf

Guest blog by Achim Nohl

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Posted in ARM, Embedded Software, Energy and Performance, Power Management, Uncategorized

 

A Closer Look at Software Development for ARM’s big.LITTLE Processing – Part I

In the last month, I had the opportunity to get some hands-on experience with hardware virtualization and hypervisors. My knowledge so far on this has been mainly limited to what I could read about it and what other people are saying about it. However, the PowerPoint slides I’ve seen leave a lot of white fog between the bullet items. This didn’t make me feel very comfortable talking about this topic myself; but, there was no escape. Hypervisors play an increasingly important role for system designers in context of supporting multiple guest operating systems on the same device, or taking advantage of ARM®’s new big.LITTLETM processing. The fog is not all gone, but let me provide you some insight on what I found out. As a disclaimer, I’m not going to (and I cannot) write an expert almanac about all the aspects of virtualization covering Xen, VMWare, etc. Instead, I’m going to focus on my personal experience that I believe will be relevant to you as well. This post is the starting point for a series on this topic in this blog.

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Posted in ARM, Embedded Software, Energy and Performance, Hypervisor, Power Management, Virtual Prototypes, Virtualization

 

What Have Models Got to Do with It? Pre-Silicon SoC Software Bring Up

Transaction-level models are the main building blocks of virtual prototypes, which are used for early software development. In my last blog post, I briefly introduced the different kinds of software tasks and the implications for models. Today, I want to talk about the modeling requirements for early SoC bring up. As I mentioned, understanding the software requirements correctly provides two clear benefits: 1) it makes modeling easier through a more focused application and 2) it increases the value for the software developer through more tailored modeling capabilities such as debug features.

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Posted in Abstraction Levels, Embedded Software, Models, Power Management, Virtual Prototypes

 
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Patrick Sheridan
Patrick Sheridan is responsible for Synopsys' system-level solution for virtual prototyping. In addition to his responsibilities at Synopsys, from 2005 through 2011 he served as the Executive Director of the Open SystemC Initiative (now part of the Accellera Systems Initiative). Mr. Sheridan has 30 years of experience in the marketing and business development of high technology hardware and software products for Silicon Valley companies.

Malte Doerper
Malte Doerper is responsible for driving the software oriented virtual prototyping business at Synopsys. Today he is based in Mountain View, California. Malte also spent over 7 years in Tokyo, Japan, where he led the customer facing program management practice for the Synopsys system-level products. Malte has over 12 years’ experiences in all aspects of system-level design ranging from research, engineering, product management and business development. Malte joined Synopsys through the CoWare acquisition, before CoWare he worked as researcher at the Institute for Integrated Signal Processing Systems at the Aachen University of Technology, Germany.

Tom De Schutter
Tom De Schutter is responsible for driving the physical prototyping business at Synopsys. He joined Synopsys through the acquisition of CoWare where he was the product marketing manager for transaction-level models. Tom has over 10 years of experience in system-level design through different marketing and engineering roles. Before joining the marketing team he led the transaction-level modeling team at CoWare.