Another former Apple hardware engineer was recruited by a Facebook executive and was told about the company's hardware explorations.
Moreover, it is perhaps the most important aspect of a hardware design space exploration.
The tool suite, named IP Designer, offers fast architectural exploration, hardware synthesis, software compilation, instruction-set simulation, and verification.
The framework consists of (1) component-based annotated transaction-level models for joint modelling of parallel software and multiprocessor hardware, and (2) exploration-driven methodology for joint software and hardware synthesis.
An extreme, abstract collision of hardware faults and electronic exploration, they've even been commissioned by the Watershed Cinema to create a sonic interpretation of cult modern horror film Let The Right One In.
A case study is presented in which the design space exploration between hardware and software protection techniques permits to find the best trade-offs among performance, reliability, memory size and hardware cost in a dependable subsystem.
A complete NoC design contains exploration on both hardware and software architectures.
Moreover, a design based on higher-level abstraction enable a better design space exploration between several hardware and software compositions.
On this basis, the proposed flow allows an early exploration of the hardware configuration space, a preliminary estimate of performance, and the rapid development of a system able to satisfy the design specifications.
In this paper, we present a methodology for partial (i.e. hardware and interaction techniques alternatives) exploration of the design space of a virtual reality application, based on the creation of reusable components and a standard evaluation of alternatives.
