system-on-chip

Today's embedded and SOC designs are increasingly becoming software-intensive. The role of software will become more dominant in future products because of the attractive flexibility and re-use of (on-chip) processors as large hardware macro blocks as well as the use of existing software across design generations. In addition, as these hardware components become increasingly commoditized, future products will be differentiated through software.

This increased role of software advocates addressing the embedded and SOC design problem from a different perspective. The problems of dealing with the complexity of multi-core designs running distributed software, concurrent engineering of hardware and software, and early-on integration of hardware and software need to be addressed.

The chronic shortage of design engineers is a well-known problem, and addressing the system design bottleneck by a brute-force approach of throwing more design resources at the problem is limited by the availability of human resources. What is required instead is a design paradigm shift for embedded and SOC designs.

Virtio is the leader in web-based virtual prototyping. With Virtio's technology, the user can evaluate, experience and design embedded IP platforms from a desktop browser. Virtio's graphical integrated development environment (Virtio IDE) is used for embedded IP evaluation, concurrent software and hardware development, and early system integration.

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