Hardware Modelling and Simulation Using an Object-Oriented Method

In order to reduce the cost, the time-to-market and to make the most pertinent choices, it becomes essential to allow designers to evaluate, very soon in the design phase, a given application performances with respect to the targetted architecture. So, we have decided to build a modelling and simulation environnement in order to evaluate digital hardware architecture performances. We considered the requisite number of cycles for processing a given application with a simple model of the architecture. In this project, we increase the reusability with an adjustable abstraction level. So, we decided to use object-orientation concepts to build our environnement. Then, reusing already designed components, designers will be able to build models with a abstraction which fit theirs goals. So, our main objective and the greatest part of out work was to define a generic object-oriented model of digital architectures. This paper mainly consists in the explanation of this model which is designed t...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: ESM
• Authors: Frédéric Mallet, Fernand Boéri, Jean-François Duboc
• Keywords: Adjustable Abstraction Level, ESM 1998, Hardware Architecture Performances, Modeling And Simulation, Simulation Environnement