Design and simulation of a RISC-based 32-bit embedded on-board computer

Author

Guo, Zhen ; Li, He ; Guo, Shuling ; Wang, Dongsheng

Author_Institution

Inst. of Control Eng., Acad. Sinica, Beijing, China

fYear

1998

fDate

2-4 Dec 1998

Firstpage

413

Lastpage

416

Abstract

This paper presents the design and simulation method for developing a RISC-based 32-bit embedded on-board computer. Instead of the conventional bread-boarded prototype: 1) we used the Cadence EDA environment and Logic Modeling hardware simulator to verify the conceptual design. (2) An Aptix FPCB was used to implement the first-version hardware system. (3) A simple but effective self-made ICE (In-Circuit Emulator) was used to perform target system verification while software was running on an IDT 79S381 Evaluation Board. The whole hardware system was first simulated conceptually under an EDA environment, and then was simulated with the basic software codes. This method is effective in an embedded system design

Keywords

development systems; digital simulation; electronic design automation; embedded systems; formal verification; hardware-software codesign; microcomputers; reduced instruction set computing; 32 bit; Aptix FPCB; Cadence EDA environment; IDT 79S381 evaluation board; RISC-based computer; codesign; embedded onboard computer; embedded system design; incircuit emulator; logic modeling hardware simulator; simulation; target system verification; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Design methodology; Electronic design automation and methodology; Embedded computing; Hardware; Ice; Logic design; Software prototyping; Virtual prototyping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Test Symposium, 1998. ATS '98. Proceedings. Seventh Asian

ISSN

1081-7735

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8277-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ATS.1998.741649

Filename

741649