Title
flipSyrup: Cycle-accurate hardware simulation framework on abstract FPGA platforms
Abstract
FPGA-based rapid prototyping is widely applied for fast simulations of hardware structure verifications. In this paper, we propose flipSyrup, a prototyping framework for cycle-accurate hardware simulations on abstract FPGA platforms. In order to mitigate the development complexity of FPGA-based simulators, the framework provides two abstractions of resources on FPGA platforms: Memory systems and inter-FPGA interconnections on multi-FPGA platforms. The framework enables designers to draw up a target hardware using abstract interfaces as ideal memory systems and interconnections on FPGA platforms. Our evaluation result shows that the slowdowns in simulation speed under the abstractions by using the framework are not critical.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/FPL.2014.6927436
Field Programmable Logic and Applications
Keywords
Field
DocType
field programmable gate arrays,logic simulation,multiprocessor interconnection networks,program verification,software prototyping,FPGA-based rapid prototyping,FPGA-based simulators,abstract FPGA platforms,abstract interfaces,cycle-accurate hardware simulation framework,development complexity,flipSyrup,hardware structure verifications,ideal memory systems,inter-FPGA interconnections,multiFPGA platforms,prototyping framework
Rapid prototyping,Computer science,CPU cache,Memory management,Computer hardware,Computer architecture,System on a chip,Parallel computing,Field-programmable gate array,Computing with Memory,FPGA prototype,Reconfigurable computing,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.45
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Shinya Takamaeda-Yamazaki16516.83
Kenji Kise230.45