Fast and Accurate Transaction Level Modeling of an Extended AMBA2.0 Bus Architecture

Young-Taek Kim (1) , Taehun Kim (1) , Youngduk Kim (1) , Chulho Shin (1) , Eui-Young Chung (1) , Kyu-Myung Choi (1) , Jeong-Taek Kong (1) , Soo-Kwan Eo (1)

1 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) approach is used to meet the simulation speed as well as cycle accuracy for large scale SoC performance analysis. We implemented a transaction-level model of a proprietary bus called AHB+ which supports an extended AMBA2.0 protocol. The AHB+ transaction-level model shows 353 times faster than pin-accurate RTL model while maintaining 97% of accuracy on average. We also present the development procedure of TLM of a bus architecture.

Domaines: Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Electronique

Young-Taek Kim, Taehun Kim, Youngduk Kim, Chulho Shin, Eui-Young Chung, et al.. Fast and Accurate Transaction Level Modeling of an Extended AMBA2.0 Bus Architecture. DATE'05, Mar 2005, Munich, Germany. pp.138-139. ⟨hal-00181837⟩