Fast hardware/software co-simulation for virtual prototyping and trade-off analysis
Claudio Passerone, Luciano Lavagno, Massimiliano Chiodo, Alberto Luigi Sangiovanni-Vincentelli · 1997
Hardware/Software co-simulation is generally performed with separate simulation models. This makes trade-off evaluation difficult, because the models must bere-compiled whenever some architectural choice is changed. We propose a technique to simulate hardware and software that is almost cycle accurate, and uses the same model for both types of components. Only the timing information used for synchronization needs to be changed to modify the processor choice, the implementation choice, or the scheduling policy. We show how this technique can be used to decide the implementation of a real-life example, a car dashboard controller.