VLAB

Development Process. By replacing hardware with software, all hardware tasks can be replaced by software tasks, enabling a true agile process for embedded.

Target System. Develop software models and virtual prototypes of specifications, architectures, and designs, for rapid all-in-software working builds of the target system throughout the development cycle.

Development Platform. Leverage virtual prototyping to replace or supplement target hardware with virtual platforms for software development, debug, and test.

Test Environment. Virtualize test benches, test instrumentation, and test execution, for full execution control, unlimited visibility, and perfect repeatability. Create test scenarios impossible with real target hardware, including of faults and fault injection.

Hardware in the Loop. Connect via virtual software interfaces with real target hardware, such as hardware emulators, FPGA prototypes, and development boards, and with test hardware, real networks, and I/O.

AUTOMATE

Development Process. Automate the embedded development process, with rapid, automated, and continuous build, run, and test iterations from definition through to final release.

Build and configure. Any of the tasks of assembling and configuring a target system or a test bench, the integration and set up of target hardware, software, and tests, can be programmed and automated for repeat execution.

Test and Run. The entire test and run process, the execution of tests, and processing of test results can be programmed and automated for rapid and repeat execution and regression. Manual interactive user sessions can be recorded as automation scripts and replayed at will.

Measure, Analyze, Optimize. Execution runs, data measurement, analysis, visualization, and report generation can be programmed and automated for repeat execution and under varying configuration, test, and data measurement conditions. Optimization and calibration procedures can be automated or replaced by new algorithms not possible with real hardware, and at speeds much faster than real time.

LEARN

Experiment. Trial and explore target system specifications, new candidate architectures, and designs in all-in-software environment for rapid virtual prototyping, simulation and emulation.

Debug. Create conditions, test scenarios, and collect execution data in ways not possible in a real hardware system, including of faults, fault injection and failure scenarios. Find the causes of functional issues or performance bottlenecks and the consequences of design decisions.

Analyze. Deep dive into data using VLAB’s built-in or new user defined analysis algorithms. Go beyond individual runs and observations, visualize and identify system level patterns, issues, and opportunities for improvement.

Understand. Systematically understand the behavior and structure of a complex virtualized system with components and sub-systems coming from multiple suppliers, tools, and domains.

DEVELOP

System. Develop working realizations of the target system under design, early and frequently, from concept definition to final release. Trial, prototype, and validate the system design early and continuously.

Software. Develop target software earlier, with the same target tool chains, operating systems, and target test environments, from the start, without waiting for hardware to be available.

Tests. Import and export software, models, modules, and platforms from other tools or environments. Exchange test cases, test results, simulation data, and analytics in standard or in proprietary user defined formats.

Continuously Integrate. Continuously integrate working builds of your target system, software, and tests, then run, test, learn and improve.

COLLABORATE

Communicate. Demonstrate and share, early and frequently, working builds of a new product, from concept to final release. Executable specifications, design prototypes, target hardware, software, test scripts, configuration and automation scripts, failing test scenarios, results, and debug and other execution data and user history, can be stored, exchanged, and replicated with ease by any other VLAB user, anywhere in the world.

Interoperate. Connect VLAB to many third party development tools, third party system simulation environments, target hardware, test equipment, and real networks.

Share. Import and export software, models, modules, and platforms from other tools or environments. Exchange test cases, test results, simulation data, and analytics in standard or in proprietary user defined formats.