SoC Design of Speaker Connection System by Efficient Cosimulation

This paper proposes a cosimulation methodology that results in an efficient SoC design as well as fast verification by integrating HDL, System-C, and algorithm-level abstraction using the design tools Active-HDL and Matlab Simulink. To demonstrate the proposed design methodology, the authors implemented the design technique on a serial connection multi-channel speaker system. The authors have demonstrated the proposed cosimulation method utilizing an ARM processor-based SoC master board with the AMBA bus interface and a Xilinx Vertex4 FPGA. The proposed method has the advantage of simultaneous simulation verification of both software and hardware parts in high levels of abstraction mixed with some performance-critical parts in more concrete RTL codes. This allows relatively fast and easy design of a speaker connection system which typically requires significant amount of data processing for verification