Title
A Cycle Count Accurate TLM bus modeling approach
Abstract
This paper presents an effective Cycle-Count Accurate Transaction Level Modeling (CCA-TLM) and simulation technique for a point-to-point bus. We propose a two-phase bus arbitration model and an FSM-based Composite Master-Slave-pair and Arbiter Transaction (CMSAT) model for efficient and accurate dynamic simulations. This approach is particularly effective for bus architecture validation and contention analysis of complex Multi-Processor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) designs. The experiment results show that the proposed approach performs 23 times faster than the Cycle-Accurate (CA) bus model while maintaining 100% accurate timing information at every transaction boundary.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/VLDI-DAT.2013.6533807
VLSI Design, Automation, and Test
Keywords
Field
DocType
integrated circuit design,integrated circuit modelling,multiprocessing systems,system-on-chip,transmission lines,ca bus model,cmsat model,fsm-based composite master-slave-pair and arbiter transaction model,bus architecture validation,complex multiprocessor system-on-chip design contention analysis,cycle count accurate tlm bus modeling approach,cycle-count accurate transaction level modeling,point-to-point bus simulation technique,two-phase bus arbitration model,system on chip
Arbiter,Computer science,Parallel computing,Transaction-level modeling,Cycle count,Real-time computing,Local bus,Back-side bus,MPSoC,System bus,Control bus
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2474-2724
978-1-4673-4435-7
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mao-Lin Li192.24
Chen-Kang Lo2442.98
Li-Chun Chen300.34
Jen-Chieh Yeh422321.72
Tsay, Ren-Song536872.19