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As 3U form factors rise in popularity amidst increasing SWaP requirements in military apps, CompactPCI has gained strong traction in the market. However, 3U VPX (VITA 46) is beating out CompactPCI by providing more bandwidth, faster speeds, and increased compatibility via serial fabrics in critical technologies.
Modern System-on-Chip (SoC) designs include a complex combination of hardware and software components with difficult-to-manage interactions. Historically, the abstraction approach presents a few drawbacks amidst its plusses. The remedy: automatic software model generation from existing Register Transfer Level (RTL) code.
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Automatically generated models take on SoC design complexity issues
