Embedded Simulation Development Platform Soc Simulation

Along with the in-depth development of embedded system, a higher requirement to the development tools has been raised. In the traditional software and hardware cooperative development mode, the software development and hardware development contains each other. The unconventional activities caused by the hardware interfere have seriously effected the commission and test of software, which make the quality of software being hard to be guaranteed with the delay in development process. While simulation development is an effective method to break away from the mess. Simulation technology shall be utilized to simulate the real running of embedded hardware system to enable the software development and system integration implemented on a virtual stage, so as to complete the system model verification and running activity analysis before the manufacture of hardware prototype, avoiding the mutual wait between the software development and hardware development, in order to improve the development efficiency and lower the risks and costs.Contemporarily, the wide application of embedded products has led increasingly complexity and diversification of the object hardware system, so the ideal development environment should be provided with the fully support from hardware platform. And since the software system on the base of structural technology has been provided with a most importance, the structural technology shall be introduced in the construction of simulation system for hardware platform. The withdrawal and design of structure model is key for the achievement of structuralization. The separate structure shall be assembled together as per a certain type to construct a complete system. The dynamic integration mode is also the key point for the achievement of simulation platform. The study of software simulation technology has been commenced long before. The system simulation includes two modes based on the circuit simulation and behavioral description simulation. Event-driven is a commonly used simulation mode. The hiberarchy of software simulation are function verification and cycle-accurate behavioral simulation. The latter are required for make up the model of pipelined processor.The core of embedded system is the microcontroller. With complex logic of which, the software simulation is a problem. In this article, advantages of two simulation...