Title
Embedded Hardware/Software Design and Cosimulation using User Mode Linux and SystemC
Abstract
The paper represents a software framework that can be used to assist the system level design of multiprocessor embedded systems. The proposed solution basically relies on the interaction between the user mode Linux virtual machine, which is used to abstract the model of the real programmable processor where the embedded software should run, and the hardware device simulated by SystemC. We can view the hardware device as a coprocessor to the CPU. In this way, designers will be able to program and validate embedded software as well as the device driver in the early stages of the design flow. Two experiments will be carried out to show that the proposed framework is capable to model a system containing software and hardware. The results show that the synchronization overhead in the proposed framework is acceptable. In Experiment 1, the transmission speed of the packets processed by the simulated switch is examined, while in Experiment 2, we analyze the jpeg compression operation and show that the proposed framework can successfully model a hardware and software system with the consideration of an operating system and the driver for the hardware coprocessor.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/ICPPW.2007.39
ICPP Workshops
Keywords
Field
DocType
software system,software framework,hardware device,user mode linux,proposed framework,proposed solution,validate embedded software,embedded software,operating system,hardware coprocessor,multiprocessor embedded system,software design,linux,virtual machines,coprocessors,system level design,synchronisation,embedded systems,design flow,embedded system,hardware description languages,software systems,virtual machine
Embedded software,Software design,Hardware compatibility list,Computer science,Parallel computing,Software system,SystemC,Software,Software framework,Hardware architecture,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0190-3918
0-7695-2934-8
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.50
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yung-Tai Hsu1644.40
Yuan-Jin Wen240.50
Sheng-De Wang372068.13