Fast and accurate TLM simulations using temporal decoupling for FIFO-based communications

A known approach to improve the timing accuracy of an untimed or loosely timed TLM model is to add timing annotations into the code and to reduce the number of costly context switches using temporal decoupling, meaning that a process can go ahead of the simulation time before synchronizing again. Ou...

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Main Authors: Helmstetter, Claude, Cornet, Jerome, Galilee, Bruno, Moy, Matthieu, Vivet, Pascal
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Computational modeling
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Context modeling
Synchronization
Time-domain analysis
Time-varying systems
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Summary:A known approach to improve the timing accuracy of an untimed or loosely timed TLM model is to add timing annotations into the code and to reduce the number of costly context switches using temporal decoupling, meaning that a process can go ahead of the simulation time before synchronizing again. Our current goal is to apply temporal decoupling to the TLM platform of a heterogeneous many-core SoC dedicated to high performance computing. Part of this SoC communicates using classic memory-mapped buses, but it can be extended with hardware accelerators communicating using FIFOs. Whereas temporal decoupling for memory-based transactions has been widely studied, FIFO-based communications raise issues that have not been addressed before. In this paper, we provide an efficient solution to combine temporal decoupling and FIFO-based communications.
ISSN:1530-1591
1558-1101
DOI:10.7873/DATE.2013.246