ASIC设计中一种基于硬件的实时仿真系统

A Hardware Based Real-Time Emulation System for Design of ASIC′s

介绍了一种基于硬件的实时仿真系统的设计与实现,它用于带有内嵌CPU的专用集成电路的仿真与验证。与软件仿真相比,它具有实时性强、可靠性高等优点。使用硬件实时仿真系统,一方面可以验证目标芯片设计的正确性与可靠性,并确定目标芯片中的一些重要参数;另一方面也为目标芯片中内嵌CPU的软件设计构建硬件平台。该设计已应用于智能电话机控制芯片。

The design of a real time emulation system based on hardware and its implementation is described,which is for the emulation and testing of ASICs with embedded CPU.Compared with software simulation, it has many advantages.First,with this system,you can test the target chip for the correctness and reliability of its design;secondly,you can construct a hardware platform for the software programming of the embedded CPU.