An easily reconfigurable simulation environment on FPGA based platform

To speed up the media system-on-chip (SOC) design, a FPGA based platform is developed as a tool for the functional simulation. This platform can be easily reconfigurable as the simulation environment for a new SOC design. We propose a fast method to configure different simulation requirements on this platform. This method consists of two parts: one is a communication-centric framework for the simulation system mapped onto FPGA. The other is the establishment of the module library. While a modification should be made to the simulation requirements, the designer simply selects required modules from the library and their replaces the unneeded modules only with few alterations to the platform. So, the design speed can be accelerated. This fast method has been implemented to our media processor simulation platform MPSP-2 which is used to build the simulation environment for several media SOC designs.