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Revolutionizing Embedded Software Development

Imperas is now a part of Synopsys

Endless regression: hardware goes virtual on the cloud

The cloud cements its role in embedded hardware design.

Engineering and Technology

In the summer of 2018, professors John Hennessy and David Patterson declared a glorious future for custom hardware. The pair had picked up the Association for Computing Machinery’s Turing Award for 2017 for their roles in the development of the reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architectural style in the 1980s. 
Towards the end of their acceptance speech, Patterson pointed to the availability of hardware in the cloud as one reason why development of custom chips and the boards they would be soldered onto is getting more accessible. Cloud servers can be used to simulate designs on-demand and, if you have enough dollars to spend, you can simulate a lot of them in parallel to run different tests….
 

To read the full Engineering and Technology article by Chris Edwards, click here.


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Related Resources

There are many Imperas documents available. Some of them are accessed only from the Imperas User site and are available only to Imperas customers under license.

On the OVPworld website there are many documents that introduce the various APIs and technologies developed by Imperas and made available as part of Open Virtual Platforms. Click here for the OVPworld documentation list.

Publicly available Imperas documents:

RISC-V Custom Instruction Flow Application Note

RISC-V Custom Instruction Flow Application Note

Using OVP Fast Processor Models with OVPsim and other simulators

Comments

  • Professor Fernando Gehm Moraes

    Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil - PUCRS

    At PUCRS, we use Imperas virtual platforms in projects on multiprocessor SoC modeling, power evaluation, and programmability, as well as computer science graduate program courses on SoCs and research architecture. Our research group (Grupo de Apoio ao Projeto de Hardware, or Hardware Design Support Group), also leverages these tools.

  • Martin Baker, Senior Manager

    Automotive Business Unit of Renesas Electronics America.

    Imperas is launching some very interesting approaches to processor modeling and software testing.  Historically processor models have been used in relatively small numbers, despite their enormous benefits. The Imperas business model has the potential to make processor modeling an affordable approach used widely across the industry.