A non-intrusive timing synchronization interface for hardware-assisted HW/SW co-simulation

This paper proposes using a non-intrusive timing synchronization interface approach to facilitate shared-data synchronization for fast and accurate hardware-assisted HW/SW co-simulation. Our synchronization interface device is specially designed for non-transparent components. With the device, we ca...

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Main Authors: Huang, Yu-Hung, Lu, Yi-Shan, Wu, Hsin-I, Tsay, Ren-Song
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Computing methodologies > Modeling and simulation > Simulation support systems
Hardware
Hardware > Hardware validation > Functional verification > Simulation and emulation
Hardware-assisted HW/SW co-simulation
Integrated circuit modeling
Registers
Silicon
Software
Synchronization
Timing synchronization interface
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Summary:This paper proposes using a non-intrusive timing synchronization interface approach to facilitate shared-data synchronization for fast and accurate hardware-assisted HW/SW co-simulation. Our synchronization interface device is specially designed for non-transparent components. With the device, we can systematically monitor shared-data accesses on a bus and control the progressing time of hardware-assisted components for fast and accurate system co-simulation. Experiments show that our approach is 10 to 140 times faster than the cycle-based hardware-assisted co-simulation approach.
ISSN:0738-100X
DOI:10.1145/2228360.2228384