This paper presents an RTOS-centric hardware/software cosimulator which we have developed for embedded system design. One of the most remarkable features in our cosimulator is that it has a complete simulation model of an RTOS which is widely used in industry, so that application tasks including RTOS service calls are natively executed on a host computer. Our cosimulator also features cosimulation with functional simulation models of hardware written in C/C++ and cosimulation with HDL simulators. A case study with a JPEG decoder application demonstrates the effectiveness of our cosimulator.
With the development of Embedded OS, REF gives us a RTOScentric hw/sw co-simulator, which features cosimulation with functional simulation models of hardware written in C/C++ and co-simulation with HDL simulators, supports a complete simulation model of an RTOS based on uITRON [13] .
RTOS-centric hardware/software cosimulator for embedded system design
CODES+ISSS '04
Computer Science