Name
Title | ||
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A highly efficient full-system virtual prototype based on virtualization-assisted approach |
Abstract | ||
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An effective full-system virtual prototype is critical for early-stage systems design exploration. Generally, however, traditional acceleration approaches of virtual prototypes cannot accurately analyze system performance and model non-deterministic inter-component interactions due to the unpredictability of simulation progress. In this paper, we propose an effective virtualization-assisted approach for modeling and performance analysis. First, we develop a deterministic synchronization process that manages the interactions affecting the data dependency in chronological order to model inter-component interactions consistently. Second, we create accurate timing and bus contention models based on runtime operation statistics for analyzing system performance. We implement the proposed virtualization-assisted approach on an off-the-shelf System-on-Chip (SoC) board to demonstrate the effectiveness of our idea. The experimental results show that the proposed approach runs 12~77 times faster than a commercial virtual prototyping tool and performance estimation is only 3~6% apart from real systems. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2018 | 10.23919/DATE.2018.8342021 | 2018 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
virtualization-assisted approach,effective full-system virtual prototype,modeling performance analysis,deterministic synchronization process,accurate timing,bus contention models,performance estimation,system performance analysis,system-on-chip board,virtual prototyping tool,acceleration approaches,nondeterministic inter-component interactions,runtime operation statistics,SoC,systems design exploration,systems design exploration | Virtualization,Synchronization,Data dependency,Computer science,Systems design,Automation,Real-time computing,Acceleration,Bus contention,Virtual prototyping,Distributed computing | Conference |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
1530-1591 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hsin-I. Wu | 1 | 2 | 3.92 |
| Chi-Kang Chen | 2 | 4 | 2.45 |
| Tsung-Ying Lu | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Tsay, Ren-Song | 4 | 368 | 72.19 |