Timed HW-SW cosimulation using native execution of OS and application SW

Author

Bacivarov, Iuliana ; Yoo, Sungjoo ; Jerraya, Ahmed A.

Author_Institution

TIMA Lab., SLS Group, Grenoble, France

fYear

2002

fDate

27-29 Oct. 2002

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

56

Abstract

We present a method of timed HW-SW cosimulation which uses native execution of OS and application SW. The method presents fast and accurate cosimulation. Since the OS and application SW are executed natively on the simulation host, it gives faster simulation than the case when an instruction set simulator is used. Compared to the conventional usage of native execution of OS and application SW, it presents more accurate simulation since it allows for timing simulation of OS and application SW and it can be incorporated into timed HW-SW cosimulation. We present the details of building such a fast and accurate SW simulation model.

Keywords

formal verification; hardware-software codesign; operating systems (computers); timing; virtual machines; SoC design; instruction set simulator; native execution; operating systems; timed hardware software cosimulation; timing simulation; Application software; Buildings; Communication networks; Delay; Laboratories; Laser sintering; Network-on-a-chip; Operating systems; Time to market; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

High-Level Design Validation and Test Workshop, 2002. Seventh IEEE International

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7655-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HLDVT.2002.1224428

Filename

1224428