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News Release from: CoWare | Subject: Amba transactional bus simulator
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 May 2003
Simulator brings Amba bus into SystemC
designs
CoWare's Amba transactional bus simulator (TBS) is an off-the-shelf solution for using the Amba 2.0 on-chip bus specification in SystemC .
CoWare's Amba transactional bus simulator (TBS) is an off-the-shelf solution for using the Amba 2.0 on-chip bus specification in SystemC that offers engineering teams a means to differentiate by design Based on CoWare's transaction-level simulation technology, the Amba TBS provides the high-speed simulation performance necessary for software development and cycle-accuracy for architectural optimisation and verification
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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As part of CoWare's ConvergenSC product family, Amba TBS dramatically speeds development of SoC designs based on ARM's popular on-chip bus specification.
The design industry is rapidly converging on transaction-level modelling (TLM) as a powerful standard abstraction level capable of dealing with the enormous complexity of today's SoCs.
Unlike register transfer level (RTL), the standard used for hardware implementation, TLM technology provides the simulation performance required for SoC system-level integration with the cycle accuracy needed for optimal architecture design.
In today's SoC designs, the on-chip bus dominates communication.
However, engineers are often required to develop their own models, a time-consuming and error-prone process that can take months to produce a fast and accurate model of the complete bus protocol.
The ConvergenSC Amba TBS is immediately available and provides a verified, transaction-level bus model that is both hundreds of times faster than RTL and fully cycle accurate.
"We have been using CoWare N2C to develop multilayer Amba bus-based platforms at the transaction level for over 18 months", states Masao Nishiura, staff engineer of EDA Technology Development Group, Matsushita Electric, Semiconductor Company, Corporate Development Division.
"We have been achieving the cycle accuracy necessary for platform architecture optimisation at simulation speeds in excess of 200kHz".
The Amba transactional bus simulator is available now.
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