MCVP-NoC: Many-Core Virtual Platform with Networks-on-Chip support

摘要

Many-core SoC (MCSoC) design is one of chip design trends and challenges. Modeling and simulation for large scale MCSoC design is the key to get it right the first time. NoC is the most important component of future MCSoC. A novel modeling tool, MCVP-NoC (Many-Core Virtual Platform with Networks-on-Chip support) was designed for large scale MCSoC modeling, and can be used in design space exploration, early software development and system verification. MCVP-NoC was built on SystemC, OVP(Open Virtual Platform) and TLM2.0, integrated with Orion2.0 for power and area estimation. MCVP-NoC can run real software code, and can be used to evaluate the performance of the MCSoC design under real application load.