Using Virtual Platforms to Shift Left Automotive Software Development

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Virtual platforms from Imperas and partners let teams run production binaries on modeled SoCs months before silicon, enabling a proof‑of‑concept that runs AlexNet on an emulated heterogeneous SoC to demonstrate functionality, a lightweight performance estimator that models instruction‑rate and memory hierarchy (accuracy can vary up to 200–300% estimator error but still shows the order‑of‑magnitude benefit such as 10–20x RISC‑V vector speedup), and a detailed CPU+peripheral model used for early software development and hardware verification that successfully catches integration issues before tape‑out.

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1. 0:00Introduction and agenda
2. 1:05Automotive software development complexity
3. 2:32RISC-V in automotive landscape
4. 5:01NSITexi and use case overview
5. 7:53Proof of concept with AI accelerator
6. 9:41Performance estimation tools
7. 12:18Software development environment
8. 14:46Virtual platforms benefits summary
9. 15:27Conclusion and future outlook