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Simulation models let you develop software for Arm IP even when you do not have access to hardware. They provide a great way to start bare metal or OS-hosted software development for Arm. This removes the problem of starting software design only after physical targets are available. Engineers can get started programming the latest Arm IP at the earliest possible stage, shortening the software development cycle.

Simulation models are developed and tested alongside Arm IP, providing highly accurate and validated virtual prototypes for software development.

Cycle Models

  • 100% cycle accurate models of Arm IP, compiled directly from RTL

  • Prove designs before manufacture

  • Develop bare metal software early

  • Accelerate system-level debugging

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Fast Models

  • Fast and functionally accurate programmers view models of Arm IP

  • Pre-hardware software development

  • Integrates with 3rd party IP models

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Fixed Virtual Platforms

  • Ready-to-use, fast and functionally accurate simulation models

  • Pre-configured virtual prototypes

  • Easy to deploy and scale

  • Fully debuggable and automatable

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AMBA TLM Library

  • AMBA Transaction-Level Modeling library

  • Model approximately-timed and cycle accurate ports

  • C++ pre-compiled binary library

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Arm Flexible Access Models

  • Select the optimum Arm IP and IP configuration

  • Evaluate and design solutions before committing to production

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The Power of Virtual Prototyping: From SoC Design to Software Development

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Insights from the Ecosystem: The Importance of Tools, Metrics and Optimisat

Blog explores the trends and challenges Arm is hearing from our ecosystem partners and how we're responding through tools, metrics and optimisations on top of our silicon IP

2 days ago by Pablo Fraile
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Why Arm’s SVE will bring Vector Computing from HPC to the Edge

The Arm Scalable Vector Extension, or SVE, is an extension of the AArch64 instruction set and is supported in the Arm Neoverse V1 core.  It is a key technology for improving the performance of HPC and ML applications.

2 days ago by Brent Gorda
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Playing with Virtual Prototypes: Debugging and testing Android games should…

One of the most amazing developments in the last few years has been the explosion in mobile gaming. Not so long ago, if you wanted to while away the time playing a game on your phone there were not many options. Angry Birds was probably the most…

3 days ago by Sam Tennent
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Game cost budgeting, Valhall shader profiling, and more with Mobile Studio

We have recently released Arm Mobile Studio 2020.2, the latest version of our performance analysis tool suite for Android applications. This release includes a number of new features, as well as some major quality-of-life improvements to make using

9 days ago by Peter Harris
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Assessing Seismic Wave Modelling on AWS Graviton2 with SW4Lite

In this blog we demonstrate that the single-node price/performance of SW4Lite on AWS Graviton 2 offers an average of 25% cost reduction compared to competitive options and on multi-node performance shows near linear speed-up up to 8 nodes.

15 days ago by Conrad Hillairet
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Catch performance issues early with profiling and optimization insights for…

In this guest blog by Raphael Mun, read about how you can catch performance issues early with Arm Mobile Studio.

1 months ago by Raphael Mun

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