Focus on modularity and component reuse in software and hardware is prevalent at Antmicro as a means to improve vertical integration, and in turn, accelerate prototyping and get customer projects to market faster. In line with this notion, for years now...
Testing in simulation is a great way to enable parallel development of software and hardware and ensure quality standards starting early into your project. Renode, Antmicro’s open source simulation framework provides a deterministic development environment...
Although cache modeling is usually not part of ISS level simulation, there are cases where it’s crucial to understand memory access patterns e.g., when building a new chip and deciding on cache size and layout, or working on low-level, time-critical firmware...
Real time applications such as space or automotive where instant autonomous decision making is crucial require configurable standardized interrupt controllers. There are many well-known examples such as the Global Interrupt Controller (GIC) for Cortex-A...
Debugging and extending ASIC and FPGA tools such as RTL simulators often means digging through vast codebases of not only the tooling itself but the designs they take as input. This can be cumbersome, especially in the context of very large, state-of-the...