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A Generic Virtual Bus for Hardware Simulator Composition
September/October 2009 (vol. 26 no. 5)
pp. 83-91
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Martin Ruckert, Axel Böttcher, Martin Hauser, "A Generic Virtual Bus for Hardware Simulator Composition," IEEE Design & Test of Computers, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 83-91, September/October, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MDT.2009.106,
author = {Martin Ruckert and Axel Böttcher and Martin Hauser},
title = {A Generic Virtual Bus for Hardware Simulator Composition},
journal ={IEEE Design & Test of Computers},
volume = {26},
number = {5},
issn = {0740-7475},
year = {2009},
pages = {83-91},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MDT.2009.106},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Martin Ruckert, Munich University of Applied Sciences
Axel Böttcher, Munich University of Applied Sciences

The typical interface between hardware components is a standardized bus. This article presents a virtual counterpart for simulated hardware components: a virtual bus on a virtual motherboard. The authors show that reuse of standard components, common with real hardware, can find its analogy in the domain of simulated hardware, making simulators less expensive and more flexible.

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Index Terms:
hardware components, design and test, interface, standardized bus, virtual bus, virtual motherboard, simulated hardware
Citation:
Martin Ruckert, Axel Böttcher, Martin Hauser, "A Generic Virtual Bus for Hardware Simulator Composition," IEEE Design & Test of Computers, vol. 26, no. 5, pp. 83-91, Sept.-Oct. 2009, doi:10.1109/MDT.2009.106
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