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…

Workload modeling utilities are a critical component of a System-on-Chip (SoC) performance analysis solution. They are as important as accurate IP models, deep debug and trace instrumentation and visualization of performance analytics.

We recently announced…

The performance requirements of computing systems have been growing rapidly, year on year. Demand is further increased by the many new performance-demanding applications that are emerging across multiple market segments, such as machine learning (ML)…

In 2013 Arm announced the AMBA 5 CHI protocol to provide the performance and scale required for infrastructure applications such as networking and data center. The protocol has been highly successful and has been the foundation for Arm many core systems…

When part of a team, your group can become more capable than a single individual, but only if your team can work together and communicate effectively. Having members of a group talk over each other leads to nothing but a cacophony, and nothing gets done…

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…

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…

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…