A conservative approach to systemc parallelization

Authors:
B. Chopard;P. Combes;J. Zory
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland;Department of Computer Science, University of Geneva, Switzerland;AST, STMicroelectronics, Geneva, Switzerland
Venue:
ICCS'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part IV
Year:
2006

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Abstract

SystemC has become a very popular language for the modeling of System-On-Chip (SoC) devices. However, due to the ever increasing complexity of SoC designs, the ever longer simulation times affect SoC exploration potential and time-to-market. We investigate the use of parallel computing to exploit the inherent concurrent execution of the hardware components, and thus to speed up the simulation of complex SoC’s. A parallel SystemC prototype based on the open source OSCI kernel is introduced and preliminary results are discussed.