DocumentCode :
538396
Title :
A synchronization profiler for hybrid full system simulation platform
Author :
Chen, Kuan-Chung ; Chen, Chung-Ho
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Cheng Kung Univ., Tainan, Taiwan
fYear :
2010
fDate :
22-23 Nov. 2010
Firstpage :
91
Lastpage :
94
Abstract :
A hybrid abstraction of a full system simulation platform can provide flexible hardware-and-software co-verification and co-simulation in early stage of system-on-a-chip development. Being a hybrid abstraction for the simulated system, it has the advantage of faster simulation speed; however, its lack of timing information and no performance-metric synchronization mechanism among the different abstraction levels of the simulation models present troubles in doing performance analysis. To facilitate performance evaluations for hybrid abstraction simulation systems, in this paper, we propose a synchronization profiler to enable cross-abstraction level performance analysis and at the same time retain the fast simulation advantage. This approach allows a design engineer to evaluate not only the interactions between an application and its accelerated hardware but also the corresponding device drivers as well as the OS kernel.
Keywords :
abstracting; formal verification; hardware-software codesign; system-on-chip; accelerated hardware; cross-abstraction level performance analysis; device drivers; flexible hardware-and-software coverification; hybrid abstraction simulation systems; hybrid full system simulation platform; performance evaluation; performance metric synchronization; simulation model; synchronization profiler; system-on-a-chip development; timing information; Driver circuits; Engines; Graphics processing unit; Hardware; Registers; Synchronization; electronic system level design; hybrid full system simulation; simulation synchronization profiler;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
SoC Design Conference (ISOCC), 2010 International
Conference_Location :
Seoul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-8633-5
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/SOCDC.2010.5682966
Filename :
5682966
Link To Document :
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