Hardware/Software Co-Simulation Test System for Embedded System

摘要

At the embedded system product development center, the improvement of development efficiency is continually required to keep up with market trends of expeditiously advancing semiconductor miniaturization and large-scale software development. It is also imperative that our products be of high quality because our products are playing important roles that support social infrastructures. As a measure against the aforementioned issue of development efficiency, hardware/software co-simulation for embedded systems have been in the spotlight. Under this technique, board operation is simulated before the start of actual board production. Without using any dedicated co-simulator, we actively utilized the Register Transfer Level (RTL) Simulator in the embedded system development workstations in Japan. As a result, we built a hardware/software co-simulation environment without any new investment.