A heterogeneous and distributed co-simulation environment [hardware/software]

Author

Amory, A. ; Moraes, F. ; Oliveira, L. ; Calazans, N. ; Hessel, F.

Author_Institution

Pontificia Univ. Catolica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

fYear

2002

fDate

14-14 Sept. 2002

Firstpage

115

Lastpage

120

Abstract

This paper presents the implementation and evaluation of a hardware and software co-simulation tool. Different simulators, which can be geographically distributed, compose this environment. The communication between simulators is done using a co-simulation backplane. The co-simulation backplane reads a file describing how the modules are connected, automatically launches the simulators and controls the simulation process. A case study is used as a benchmark to validate the implementation and to evaluate the system performance using different hardware-software partitions.

Keywords

C++ language; circuit simulation; distributed processing; embedded systems; hardware description languages; hardware-software codesign; logic partitioning; logic simulation; performance evaluation; virtual machines; C++; VHDL; automatic simulator launching; benchmark case study validation; co-simulation backplane communication method; complex embedded systems; geographically distributed simulators; hardware software codesign; hardware-software partitions; hardware/software co-simulation tool implementation/evaluation; heterogeneous/distributed simulation environment; module connection files; simulation process control; system performance evaluation; Automatic control; Backplanes; Binary codes; Central Processing Unit; Computational modeling; Embedded system; Hardware design languages; Local area networks; Software tools; Wide area networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Circuits and Systems Design, 2002. Proceedings. 15th Symposium on

Conference_Location

Porto Alegre, Brazil

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1807-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBCCI.2002.1137646

Filename

1137646