Speeding Up SoC Virtual Platform Simulation by Data-Dependency Aware Virtual Synchronization
Journal
International SoC Design Conference (ISoCC)
Pages
I256-I259
Date Issued
2008-11
Author(s)
Abstract
This paper presents a novel simulation technique for SoC virtual platforms at Transaction Level to achieve million-instructions-per-second (MIPS) level of simulation speed, while retaining accurate and detailed cycle information for system explorations. We first apply virtual synchronization concept to our simulation algorithm and then apply a novel datadependency aware concept to determine precise synchronization points in simulation. Our experimental result shows that comparing to the traditional cycle-accurate TLM simulation, our approach is about 44 times faster with the simulation speed around 3.66 MPIS.
Type
conference paper