Virtual Hardware Prototyping through Timed Hardware-Software Co-Simulation

Designers of factory automation applications increasingly demand for tools for rapid prototyping of hardware extensions to existing systems and verification of resulting behaviors through hardware and software co-simulation. This work presents a framework for the timing-accurate cosimulation of HDL models and their verification against hardware and software running on an actual embedded device of which only a minimal knowledge of the current design is required. Experiments on real-life applications show that early architectural and design decisions can be taken by measuring the expected performance on the models realized using the proposed framework.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: DATE
• Authors: Franco Fummi, Mirko Loghi, Stefano Martini, Marco Monguzzi, Giovanni Perbellini, Massimo Poncino
• Keywords: Actual Embedded Device, DATE 2005, Factory Automation Applications, Hardware, Hardware Extensions