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How to Verify Performance of Complex Interconnect-Based Designs?Cadence IP Blog - Thierry Berdah, CadenceJul. 15, 2019 |
With more and more SoCs employing sophisticated interconnect IPs to link multiple processor cores, caches, memories, and dozens of other IP functions, the designs are enabling a new generation of low-power servers and high-performance mobile devices. The complexity of the interconnects and their advanced configurability contributes to already formidable design and verification challenges which lead to the following questions:
While your interconnect subsystem might have a correct functionality, are you starving your IP functions of the bandwidth they need? Are requests from latency-critical initiators processed on time? How can you ensure that all applications will receive the desired bandwidth in steady-state and corner use-cases?