Virtual Hardware Prototyping through Timed Hardware-Software Co-Simulation
Franco Fummi, Mirko Loghi, S. Martini, M. Monguzzi, Giovanni Perbellini, Massimo Poncino · Design, Automation, and Test in Europe · 2005
Designers of factory automation applications increasingly demand tools for rapid prototyping of hardware extensions to existing systems and verification of resulting behaviors through hardware and software co-simulation. The paper presents a framework for the timing-accurate co-simulation of HDL models and their verification against hardware and software running on an actual embedded device of which only a minimal knowledge of the current design is required. Experiments on real-life applications show that early architectural and design decisions can be taken by measuring the expected performance on the models realized using the proposed framework.