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Proceedings of the 15th international symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS '02)
Efficient Simulation of Synthesis-Oriented System Level Designs
Kyoto, Japan
October 02-October 04
ISBN: 1-58113-576-9
Rajesh K. Gupta, University of California, Irvine, California
Sandeep K. Shukla, University of California, Irvine, California
Nick Savoiu, University of California, Irvine, California
Modeling for synthesis and modeling for simulation seem to be two competing goals in the context of C++-based modeling frameworks. One of the reasons is while most hardware systems have some inherent parallelism efficiently expressing it depends on whether the target usage is synthesis or simulation. For synthesis, designs are usually described with synthesis tools in mind and are therefore partitioned according to the targeted hardware units. For simulation, runtime efficiency is critical but our previous work has shown that a synthesis-oriented description is not necessarily the most efficient, especially if using multiprocessor simulators. Multiprocessor simulation requires preemptive multithreading but most current C++-based high level system description languages use cooperative multithreading to exploit parallelism to reduce overhead. We have seen that, for synthesis-oriented models, along with adding preemptive threading we need to transform the threading structure for good simulation performance. In this paper we present an algorithm for automatically applying such transformations to C++-based hardware models, ongoing work aimed at proving the equivalence between the original and transformed model, and a 62% to 76% simulation time improvement on a dual processor simulator.
Index Terms:
SystemC, simulation, system-level design
Citation:
Rajesh K. Gupta, Sandeep K. Shukla, Nick Savoiu, "Efficient Simulation of Synthesis-Oriented System Level Designs," isss, pp.168-173, Proceedings of the 15th international symposium on System Synthesis (ISSS '02), 2002
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