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| Author(s): |
Moreira, Joao
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Klein, Felipe
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Baldassin, Alexandro
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Centoducatte, Paulo
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Azevedo, Rodolfo
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Rigo, Sandro
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IEEE
Total Authors: 7
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | 2011 22ND IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON RAPID SYSTEM PROTOTYPING (RSP); v. N/A, p. 7-pg., 2011-01-01. |
| Abstract | |
Virtual platforms are of paramount importance for design space exploration and their usage in early software development and verification is crucial. In particular, enabling accurate and fast simulation is specially useful, but such features are usually conflicting and tradeoffs have to be made. In this paper we describe how we integrated TLM communication mechanisms into a state-of-the-art, cycle-accurate, MPSoC simulation platform. More specifically, we show how we adapted ArchC fast functional instruction set simulators to the MPARM platform in order to achieve both fast simulation speed and accuracy. Our implementation led to a much faster hybrid platform, reaching speedups of up to 2.9x and 2.1x on average with negligible impact on power estimation accuracy (average 3.26% and 2.25% of standard deviation). (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/04707-6 - Energy consumption analysis in STMs and a multicore simulation platform with hybrid abstraction |
| Grantee: | João Batista Correa Gomes Moreira |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/08239-7 - Energy Efficiency in Data Centers through Servers Modeling and Management |
| Grantee: | Felipe Vieira Klein |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/14681-4 - Exploiting parallelism in graphical user interfaces |
| Grantee: | Alexandro José Baldassin |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |