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In highly competitive electronics industry, its crucial to strike a balance between performance and cost. With traditional approach performance analysis is done once the hardware has reached a maturity level. Any performance bottle-neck found at that stage often needs significant effort to fix and escalates cost.

Virtual prototype for performance estimation involves creating detailed digital representations of hardware components or systems that capture accurate timing behavior. Timing accuracy is crucial in scenarios where hardware performance is critical, such as in microprocessors, memory systems, and real-time embedded systems. These models provide insights into how long specific operations take, helping engineers to analyze and predict how hardware performs in terms of speed, latency, and timing characteristics.

Performance Estimation with Timing-Accurate Models

Timing-accurate models are valuable for performance estimation in several ways

Latency Analysis

Engineers can analyze the exact time it takes for specific operations to complete, helping identify bottlenecks and delays.

Throughput Analysis

Engineers can measure how many operations can be processed per unit of time, providing insights into the system's capacity.

Critical Path Analysis

Timing-accurate models can reveal the critical paths in a design, which are the longest paths through which data travels, helping optimize for speed.

Pipeline Analysis

For pipelined systems, these models can simulate each stage of the pipeline, allowing engineers to fine-tune pipeline depth and performance.

Benefits of Timing-Accurate Models

Design Optimization

Engineers can make precise adjustments to meet performance requirements without overprovisioning or underutilizing resources.

Early Detection of Timing Issues

Engineers can identify and address timing issues early in the design phase, reducing costly redesigns.

In summary, performance modeling enables designers to simulate various system level use-cases across different configurations and analyze the system performance. Performance models are timing-approximate models with abstract functionality, leading to faster simulation speed than RTL and provide higher degree of analysis and debugging support.

At Aarohin, our team possesses a wealth of experience in crafting timing-accurate models using SystemC for precise performance estimation. We have established strong collaborative relationships with our clients, ensuring the delivery of models tailored to their specific needs.