A few weeks ago I discussed how bigger is (often) better. Obviously, everyone has a need for “more cowbell” as well as a need for speed. The questions to ask are:
- What do you have to do to accelerate your simulation runs?
- What are the basic factors to consider?
- How do you have to think about your testbench/verification environment and your DUT?
- What aspects really matter and what improvements can you expect?
All of these questions are answered in an introductory Rapid Adoption Kit (RAK) to Verification Acceleration. This RAK provides you with the following collateral:
- An application note that explains the various relevant factors.
- A presentation that shows the basic concepts of verification acceleration.
- A video that is a narrated recording of the slides in the presentation.
- An example that shows three basic cases and starting points, respectively.
- A second video that walks you through the example.
The simulation example also has performance profiling enabled so you can see the speed up that you can expect when moving to acceleration with the Palladium XP platform.
Accelerate this!
Axel Scherer, Chief Velocity Guy