Enabling TLM-2.0 interface on QEMU and SystemC-based virtual platform

Author

Yeh, Tse-Chen ; Lin, Zin-Yuan ; Chiang, Ming-Chao

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Nat. Sun Yat-sen Univ., Kaohsiung, Taiwan

fYear

2011

fDate

2-4 May 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper presents a QEMU and SystemC-based virtual platform that is capable of hardware modeling using TLM-2.0 interface. The proposed virtual platform is not only capable of running an operating system, but it is also capable of using such an interface to connect hardware models, such as the instruction set simulator to a bus model. We verify the functionality of such a platform by using it to boot up a full-fledged Linux while at the same time estimating its performance at the instruction-accurate level. Furthermore, TLM-2.0 interface makes our framework more compatible with other models using TLM-2.0 and more suitable for modeling at the early stage of ESL design flow.

Keywords

C++ language; Linux; circuit CAD; hardware-software codesign; system buses; system-on-chip; virtualisation; ESL design flow; Linux; QEMU; SystemC-based virtual platform; TLM-2.0 interface; bus model; electronic system level tool; hardware modeling; instruction set simulator; instruction-accurate level; operating system; Adaptation model; Encoding; Hardware; Kernel; Linux; Sockets; System-on-a-chip; ESL; QEMU; SystemC; TLM; bus functional model; virtual platform;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

IC Design & Technology (ICICDT), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

ISSN

Pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-9019-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICDT.2011.5783207

Filename

5783207