Flexible and efficient co-simulation of networked embedded devices

  • Authors:
  • Christoph Roth;Oliver Sander;Jürgen Becker

  • Affiliations:
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany;Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany;Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 24th symposium on Integrated circuits and systems design
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Novel applications in the area of embedded systems evermore rely on the ability of these systems to communicate with each other. In order to avoid design errors system/ network co-simulation is a possible technique which allows investigating interdependencies between system and network already during early development stages. In this paper we present a novel synchronization method which improves performance of cycle accurate system/network co-simulation by triggering synchronization cycles solely by events generated in the network domain without losing accuracy. The implementation is set on top of a High Level Architecture based simulation platform, providing a great amount of flexibility. Results of performance analysis show that our approach is scalable in several dimensions and can significantly speedup system/network co-simulation compared to common conservative synchronization algorithms.