Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Noam Efraim Bashari

Ron Diamant

Barak Wasserstrom

Yaniv Shapira

Ali Ghassan Saidi

Tzachi Zidenberg

Leonid Koilis

Techniques for obtaining the performance of an integrated circuit design are disclosed. One such technique may retrieve, from a data store, a set of snapshots of a virtual machine of a host system taken during execution of a performance test. For each snapshot in the set of snapshots, the snapshot can be loaded onto a virtual machine running on an emulator that is emulating the integrated circuit design. The virtual machine can be executed for a reduced runtime, and the performances measured during execution of the snapshots can be used to derive the performance of the integrated circuit design.

Performance checkpointing

An apparatus such as a system-on-a-chip includes memory that is distributed through one or more functional hardware circuits. Each functional hardware circuit includes memory, and each functional hardware circuit can be configured to have its memory used either by the respective functional hardware circuit or by the apparatus' master device (e.g., main processor). For those functional hardware circuits that are not needed for a given application, their memories can be repurposed for use by the master device. Related methods are also disclosed.

Address remapping for efficient use of distributed memory

An apparatus such as a system-on-a-chip includes memory that is distributed through multiple functional hardware circuits. Each functional hardware circuit includes memory, and each functional hardware circuit can be configured to have its memory used either by the respective functional hardware circuit or by the apparatus' master device (e.g., main processor). For those functional hardware circuits that are not needed for a given application, their memories can be repurposed for use by the master device. Related methods are also disclosed.

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Shaar-Haamakim, Israel

Noam Efraim Bashari