“Writing C++ software code is easier for engineers than designing in RTL because software code is more concise, with 5-10X less lines of C++ required than RTL,” said Microchip. “Software is also ...

As a reference, the algorithm in Fig 1 (using float without modeling fixed-point effects) ran in 3.5s (less than 2× faster than ac_fixed which models fixed-point effects). The runtimes presented in ...