Exploration to Confidence: System Level Performance Insights for Early SoC De Risking

As SoC architectures become more complex, performance bottlenecks hidden within interconnects, memory subsystems, and traffic flows can introduce costly redesigns if discovered during RTL verification. NXP presents how Synopsys Platform Architect enables performance discovery before RTL, helping teams identify bottlenecks, validate architecture choices, and achieve greater confidence in first-pass performance sign-off.
 

What You Will Learn

• How NXP shifts performance verification left by modeling complete SoC data paths, realistic memory behavior, and representative workloads to uncover issues months before RTL implementation.
• How Platform Architect enables early identification of critical bottlenecks through NoC sizing analysis, DDR performance correlation, coherent interconnect evaluation, and realistic system traffic stress testing.
• How early architecture exploration reduces development risk by eliminating costly RTL topology iterations, accelerating bottleneck resolution, improving schedule predictability, and allowing verification teams to focus on targeted validation rather than performance debugging.