Carbon cycle accurate models of Arm CPUs enable system performance analysis by providing access to the Performance Monitor Unit (PMU). Carbon models instrument the PMU registers and record PMU events into the The specified item was not found. System…

I started my design career far too long ago doing system verification on a multi-processor server design.  Basically, I was charged with assembling a model of the system and then writing some tests to exercise it.  This was long before the days of virtual…

I’m excited to introduce the most complex Carbon Performance Analysis Kit (CPAK) created by The specified item was not found.; an 8-core ARM Cortex-A53 system running 64-bit Linux with full Swap & Play support. This is also the first dual-cluster…

The annual Design Automation Conference (DAC) was held last month, and what a show it was!  If you recall, back in February, I talked about TSMC and ARM’s first tape-out with the ARM Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 processors. At DAC, we presented…

ARM has released DS-5 version 5.19 including the Ultimate Edition for ARMv8 to compile and debug 64-bit software. The The specified item was not found. Performance Analysis Kits (CPAKs) for the ARM Cortex-A57 and Cortex-A53 demonstrate 64-bit bare metal…

We (The specified item was not found.) have just completed our first major release of 2014. It includes significant new content and many bug fixes to all products. Today, I would like to highlight the updated models of the ARM® Cortex™-A53

Another important milestone was reached recently for TSMC  and ARM when the teams taped out at the end of December 2013 (see block diagram) the first 64 bit ARMv8 processors in a big.LITTLE configuration on TSMC’s leading edge manufacturing process…

Over the last five years, one of the concerning things about virtual prototyping has been the separation between speed and accuracy. The lack of any meaningful connections between models built for speed and models built for accuracy motivated me to look…