• Simplifying workload modeling with AMBA ATP Engine

    We are pleased to announce the release of the AMBA ATP Engine, an open-source implementation of AMBA ATP (Adaptive Traffic Profiles). The Engine significantly simplifies the adoption of AMBA ATP for workload modeling and accelerates the research and development…

  • Please explain some of the new ACE5 signals in relation to the MASTER and INTERCONNECT behavior

    Hi,

    The AMBA5 spec for ACE5 shows some new signals versus ACE4 :

    VAWQOSACCEPT

    VARQOSACCEPT

    AWAKEUP

    ACWAKEUP

    SYSCOREQ

    SYSCOACK

    How are these used in an SOC system ?

    For example, I think but I'm not usre if VAWQOSACCEPT, VARQOSACCEPT is output by each slave…

  • Partnerships and the Myths of System Resilience

    At the 55th Design Automation Conference 2018

    The Design Automation Conference (DAC) brings together an interesting mixture of EDA and IP companies enabling tool users, licensees and partners to meet. Automotive and functional safety continued to be major…

  • Building CCIX products just got easier

    Recently, Cadence Design Systems announced a suite of CCIX IP products which includes Controller, PHY and Verification IP. CCIX (pronounced “C6”) is an open coherent multichip standard that allows processors based on different instruction set architectures…

  • How to Measure and Optimize the System Performance of a Smartphone RTL Design - Part 4

    By William Orme, Strategic Marketing Manager, Arm and Nick Heaton, Distinguished Engineer, Cadence

    This is Part 3 of a 4 part series. Links below

    Part 4

    Cadence Interconnect Workbench

    We have seen how a systematic process can be applied to validating…

  • How to Measure and Optimize the System Performance of a Smartphone RTL Design - Part 3

    By William Orme, Strategic Marketing Manager, Arm and Nick Heaton, Distinguished Engineer, Cadence

    This is Part 3 of a 4 part series. Links below

    Part 3

    Use-case Performance Analysis

    In the previous two parts we introduced the challenges facing designers…

  • How to Measure and Optimize the System Performance of a Smartphone RTL Design - Part 2

    By William Orme, Strategic Marketing Manager, Arm and Nick Heaton, Distinguished Engineer, Cadence

    This is Part 2 of a 4 part series. Links below

    Part 2

    Performance Characterization

    Because of the complexity of assembling and configuring the multitude…