Pubblicazioni

Autori:

Lonardi, Alessandro; Pravadelli, Graziano

Titolo:

On the Co-simulation of SystemC with QEMU and OVP Virtual Platforms

Anno:

2015

Tipologia prodotto:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Lingua:

Inglese

Formato:

A Stampa

Titolo libro:

VLSI-SoC: Internet of things foundations

Casa editrice:

Springer International Publishing

ISBN:

978-3-319-25278-0

Intervallo pagine:

110-128

Parole chiave:

Virtual prototyping, HW/SW co-simulation, SystemC

Breve descrizione dei contenuti:

Virtual prototyping allows designers to set up an electronic system level software simulator of a full HW/SW platform to carry out SW development and HW design almost in parallel. To achieve the goal virtual prototyping tools allow the co-simulation between an efficient instruction set simulator, mainly based on dynamic binary translation of the target code, and simulation kernels for HW models, described by means of traditional hardware description languages, like, for example, SystemC. In this context, some approaches have been proposed for cosimulation between QEMU and SystemC, both from EDA companies and academic research groups. On the contrary, no paper addresses integration between Open Virtual Platform (OVP) and SystemC. Indeed, OVP models and the related simulator can be integrated into SystemC designs by using TLM 2.0 wrappers and opportune OVP APIs. However, this solution presents some disadvantages, like the incapability of supporting cycle-accurate models, and the necessity of re-design, in terms of SystemC modules, all OVP components that should be integrated in the target platform. To avoid such drawbacks, and provide an easy way to port SystemC models from a QEMU-based to an OVP-based virtual platform and vice versa, this paper presents a common co-simulation approach that works for integrating SystemC components with both QEMU and OVP. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed architecture.

Id prodotto:

88513

Handle IRIS:

11562/928399

ultima modifica:

12 novembre 2022

Citazione bibliografica:

Lonardi, Alessandro; Pravadelli, Graziano, On the Co-simulation of SystemC with QEMU and OVP Virtual Platforms VLSI-SoC: Internet of things foundations , Springer International Publishing , 2015 , pp. 110-128

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