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Abstract | ||
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SystemC TLM based virtual prototypes have become the main tool in industry and research for concurrent hardware and software development, as well as hardware design space exploration. However, there exists a lack of accurate, free, changeable and realistic SystemC models of modern CPUs. Therefore, many researchers use the cycle accurate open source system simulator gem5, which has been developed in parallel to the SystemC standard. In this paper we present a coupling of gem5 with SystemC that offers full interoperability between both simulation frameworks, and therefore enables a huge set of possibilities for system level design space exploration. Furthermore, we show that the coupling itself only induces a relatively small overhead to the total execution time of the simulation. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2017 | 10.1109/SAMOS.2017.8344612 | 2017 International Conference on Embedded Computer Systems: Architectures, Modeling, and Simulation (SAMOS) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
system level design space exploration,system simulation,interoperability,software development,hardware design space exploration,realistic SystemC models,modern CPUs,cycle accurate open source system simulator gem5,SystemC standard,simulation frameworks,SystemC TLM based virtual prototypes,concurrent hardware development,transaction level modeling,multiprocessor system-on-chips | Interoperability,Computer science,Electronic system-level design and verification,SystemC,Space exploration,Execution time,Design space exploration,Software development,Embedded system | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
978-1-5386-3438-7 | 1 | 0.36 |
References | Authors | |
6 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Christian Menard | 1 | 1 | 0.36 |
| Jeronimo Castrillon | 2 | 118 | 15.22 |
| Matthias Jung | 3 | 111 | 16.76 |
| Norbert Wehn | 4 | 1165 | 137.17 |