Using Platform Architect for Architecting the Next Generation AURIX Microcontrollers

Virtual prototyping is key for early design space exploration and proper architecture definition for any given SoC platform. This talk focuses on how the Synopsys Platform Architect tool is used to help architect the next generation Infineon AURIX™ microcontroller: Primarily, the tool is used to execute system performance simulations for different architectural domains such as compute, interconnect and memory. The Infineon simulation platform comprises of several components with different modelling abstraction levels, such as Synopsys library models, custom developed models and even RTL models. Simulations are executed using both standard code benchmarks and synthetic traffic as stimuli. The simulation results are analyzed using standard metrics such as latency, bandwidth, etc., with deeper analysis using automated custom post-processing scripts.