Paper Info
Title
A smoothly upgradable approach to virtual emulation of HW/SW systems
Abstract
This article presents a novel approach to the high-level system verification problem based on a hybrid hardware/software virtual emulation tool. Unavailable components or sub-systems are physically replaced on a prototype board by FPGAs whose electrical behavior is driven by software simulations of high-level description models. Such a prototype can smoothly evolve towards the final system as soon as the unavailable parts or the components under manufacturing become available. The simultaneous use of prototyping techniques such as field-programmable circuit boards with software simulation significantly improve the usefulness of our framework. A low-cost verification environment, with multiprocessing and multilanguage capabilities currently in use at University of Bologna, is described.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1109/IWRSP.1996.506732
RSP
Keywords
Field
DocType
prototype board,high-level system verification problem,low-cost verification environment,final system,software simulation,unavailable part,sw system,high-level description model,upgradable approach,unavailable component,simultaneous use,software virtual emulation tool,fpgas,systems analysis,manufacturing,prototyping,emulation,hardware,prototypes,field programmable gate arrays,printed circuits,application specific integrated circuits,logic design,multiprocessing
Computer architecture,Computer science,Systems analysis,Field-programmable gate array,Software prototyping,Application-specific integrated circuit,Multiprocessing,Software,Emulation,Hardware emulation,Embedded system
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1074-6005
0-8186-7603-5
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.62
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. Borgatti1326.96
R. Rambaldi241.86
G. Gori320.62
R Guerrieri412430.04