A Co-simulation based Hardware/Software Deign and Verification methodology using User Mode Linux and SystemC
Date Issued
2006
Date
2006
Author(s)
Hsu, Yung-Tai
DOI
en-US
Abstract
The paper represents a pure software framework which can be used to assist electrical system level design. The proposed solution basically relies on the interaction between the User Mode Linux virtual machine, which is used to abstract the model of the real programmable device where the embedded software should run, and hardware device simulated by SystemC. In this way, designers will be able to program and validate embedded software as well as the device driver in the early stages of the design flow.
A driver based data access mechanism makes data transmission between simulated hardware and software possible. And the synchronization mechanism is mainly based on GDB and signal in SystemC. The integration of the entire system will be done at run-time.
With this work, there will be a new way to take the impact of operating system into consideration with respect to electrical system design and hopefully it would therefore provide more correctness in design phase
Subjects
軟硬體協同設計
軟硬體共同模擬
Hardware/Software Co-design
Hardware/Software Co-simulation
Type
thesis