Title :
Speedup analysis in simulation-emulation co-operation
Author :
Miremadi, Seyed Ghassem ; Sarmadi, Siavash Bayat ; Asadi, Ghazanfar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Sharif Univ. of Technol., Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
This paper presents an analytical approach to estimate the speedup in a simulation-emulation cooperation environment. The speedup of this approach as compared with the speedup of a pure simulation is analyzed. Also, an analysis of the speedup is given when different types of application instructions are utilized. The analysis is based on using both Verilog and VHDL. The results show that when only the simulation part of the simulation-emulation co-operation is used, the speedup is higher, than when the pure simulation is used. The total speedup is also depended on the type of application instructions and the communication cycle time between the simulator and the emulator.
Keywords :
formal verification; hardware description languages; logic simulation; VHDL; Verilog; application instructions; communication cycle time; simulation-emulation co-operation; speedup analysis; Analytical models; Circuit simulation; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Controllability; Digital systems; Emulation; Hardware design languages; Logic; Observability;
Conference_Titel :
Field-Programmable Technology, 2002. (FPT). Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7574-2
DOI :
10.1109/FPT.2002.1188719
