Carbon Adds AXI Analysis Capabilities to SoC Designer Plus

The package builds on the SoC Designer Plus virtual platform by adding advanced traffic-generation capabilities with multi-run profiling tools, giving users a way to optimize system-on-chip (SoC) designs for the AXI protocol. Customers like Xilinx have used Carbon’s cycle-accurate models and SoC Designer virtual platform to analyze thousands of AXI interconnect scenarios to optimize the performance of their dual-core Cortex™-A9 MPCore™-based Zynq™-7000 Extensible Processing Platform for use in a broad range of applications.
Productivity in Days
“AXI interconnects can be complex,” says Joe Tatham, Carbon’s vice president of engineering. “Validating that the communications path has been correctly architected on even the most straightforward system can be challenging.”
Carbon’s AXI Analysis Package simplifies this task by combining advanced traffic-generation capabilities with post-simulation analysis, enabling designers to execute and compare results of various parameter settings across multiple runs.
The AXI Analysis Package links the SoC Designer Plus Virtual Platform and 100% accurate models for AXI interconnect with an AXI traffic generator and post-simulation profiler –– a vendor-independent platform for AXI analysis and optimization that gets users productive in days.
The traffic generator generates or consumes AXI traffic based on a number of scriptable parameter settings. Once this data is created, it can be analyzed using SoC Designer Plus’ post-simulation profiler, where data from multiple runs can be analyzed and displayed simultaneously. It is possible to experiment with multiple parameter settings and highlight the effect of changes on the overall behavior of the system.