| Features | Benefits |
- Integrated top-down design process
- HW/SW co-design
- Automatic code generation
- System-level design methodology & tools
- Reference system model and testbench | (1) Reduced development time
=> Systematize design flows
=> Develop HW and SW in synergy
=> Reduce coding and debugging time
=> Design at higher abstraction levels
=> Improve teamwork (subcontractors, distributed teams) |
- Timed-behavioral modeling & verification
- Common HW/SW reference model
- Architectural modeling & co-simulation
- Separated functional & architectural design
- Executable specifications | (2) Reduced delay & cancellation rates
=> Validate choices and detect errors earlier
=> Limit HW/SW integration problems
=> Validate architectures
=> Ease adaptations & maintenance
=> Facilitate communications, remove ambiguity |
| - Architectural exploration & performance analysis | (3) Diminished BOM
=> Optimize architectures |
- Technology-independent notations/functional design
- Export & import virtual components
- Build knowledge repository | (4) Augmented NPI rate
=> Unleash creativity
=> Facilitate IP capitalization and reuse
=> Accelerate new project inception |
