System Architecting

Model and Simulate a Virtual System (Application + Platform)

CoFluent Studio™ enables application-driven system architecting in order to define the right architecture for the right functionality in the first 20% of a project's lifecycle.

System design and architecting front-end

• Fully-timed functional (application) and physical (platform) models at the message abstraction level
• Capture models through graphics and simple C code for detailed sequential algorithms
• Define the system within its environment used as simulation input/testbench
• Automatic SystemC code generation

System-level verification environment

• Fast simulation (message-passing transactional SystemC-based - OCP TL3)
• Automatic instrumentation, rich set of visualization/analysis tools
• Observe the system's behavior, communications and performance data

Rapid design space exploration cycle

• Define as many hardware platforms as wished in minutes: mono or multiprocessor, mono or multi-board, with simple or complex interconnect
• Use generic hardware components with universal performance characteristics: no specific models or ISS required
• Map application elements to platform components by a simple drag-and-drop operation
• Execute "what-if" scenarios by trying out different platform and/or mappings without writing a single line of code
• Obtain time-accurate co-simulation results

Providing system executable specifications and common HW/SW reference

• Obtain in a project's first 20% the right system architecture transactional SystemC model
  - Used as specifications and testbench for further HW/SW design and implementation
  - Used to specify and verify subcontracted implementation of subsystems
• Build your company's electronic system design knowledge repository with libraries of models