A HW/SW co-simulation framework for the verification of multi-CPU systems
S. Cordibella, Franco Fummi, Giovanni Perbellini, Davide Quaglia · 2008
This work focuses on the HW/SW co-simulation of complex systems consisting of several independent CPUpsilas (multi-CPU systems) such as multi-processor system-on-chip (MPSoC) and wireless sensor networks. The verification of such systems requires the efficient evaluation of hardware-software interactions in several processing units. We present a HW/SW co-simulation framework consisting of a timing-accurate interaction of a SystemC simulator with an array of instruction set simulators (ISS). Tests with up to one hundred ISSpsilas show that the proposed framework exploits the power of todaypsilas multi-processor hosts and represents a valuable tool for the validation of not only eight-core MPSoCpsilas but also large sensor networks.