Patent ID: 7970596
Filing Date: 2011-06-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer system for simulating the operation of an embedded system using a software application residing in the memory of a computer, comprising: a design application configured to form a hardware specification of an embedded system, the design application including: a test bench builder for generating a graphical representation of at least one interactive test bench and for selecting signals or variables to be coupled to a graphical representation of a user interface for each interactive test bench; a software debugger including a debugging interface for associating a breakpoint of execution to a graphical symbol of the FSM representation of the hardware component; a graphical database and a behavioral database coupling data associated with a hardware description to a code generator; a compiler for compiling an output of the code generator into an object file of the hardware description; a discrete event simulation engine configured to execute the object file of the hardware description; a first API interface adapted to couple the discrete event simulation engine to each of the interactive test benches; at least one API interface adapted to couple the discrete event simulation engine to the instruction set accurate simulator; and at least one API interface adapted to couple the instruction set accurate simulator to the software debugger, the software debugger configured to load at least one binary program code compiled for the target processor.