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1 Giano Introduction to Alessandro Forin Microsoft Research

2 Take-aways Giano is the first Real-Time Simulation Framework for hardware-software co-development Uses Microsoft Visio as the graphing and execution UI Configurations are Platform XML files Nodes in the graph are separate, user-defined DLLs Properties are user-defined and node-specific Lots of functionality pre-built into the base framework 70+ working modules, 20+ systems, 4 years internal use Source, free for academic use at http://research.microsoft.com/downloads

3 Hw/Sw Co-Development? a)Develop or synthesize hardware and software at the same time b)Simulate a full system before it is ready c)Use C-models and/or HDL-models to define behaviors d)All of the above Giano

4 ModelSim processGiano process CPU MEM I/O ARM: At91m63200 Xilinx: Spartan3 Optional: Icarus Verilog Interpreter FPGA: vvp.dll NamedPipe GIANO PLI plug-in (VPI) NamedPipe client Optional: external devices (LabView) PLI plug-in (VPI) Start = TheCounter->Value;...compute... End = TheCounter->Value; module test; always @(posedge clock) counter = counter + 1;

5 AES components, sw/hw Base RTOS Test program and data ICipher implementation AES component ARM MicrocontrollerXilinx FPGA

6 Real-Time Simulation Definition Realize a software system that matches the temporal behavior of the hardware+software system being simulated, using the same time- ordered sequence of inputs Applicable to hybrid hw+sw simulators too Requires: –Clock adaptation –I/O adaptation

7 Clock Adaptation Problem: Output a character every second Timer too slow/fast? Incorrect Host load changes? Erratic Solution: Rate-limit the clock using introspection and adaptation

8 Rate-limiting the Clock 1.Every M (10**3) clock ticks spin idle for D microseconds 2.Every N (10**6) clock ticks check the actual frequency against the target frequency, adjust the delay D

9 Adjusting the Delay factor

10 Effect on IPS

11 I/O adaptation Problem: 9600 baud serial line From disk trace? too fast From user? too slow From real serial line? depends Solution: –Link to rate-limited clock –Adapt using events and notifications

12 Example: Programmable Timer void TcDevice::Event(GIANO_EVENT *Event) { PTC_STATE State = &this->TcState; UINT32 BaseCount = (UINT32) Event->Arg2; if (Event == &Notification) { CalibrateTc( (UINT32) Event->Arg1 ); return; } // trigger interrupt if enabled State->Control |= TCCT_INTERRUPT; if (State->Control & TCCT_ENABLE) ParentBus->Interrupt( InterruptNumber, true); …..

13 Take-aways Giano is the first Real-Time Simulation Framework for hardware-software co-development Uses Microsoft Visio as the graphing and execution UI Configurations are Platform XML files Nodes in the graph are separate, user-defined DLLs Properties are user-defined and node-specific Lots of functionality pre-built into the base framework 70+ working modules, 20+ systems, 4 years internal use Source, free for academic use at http://research.microsoft.com/downloads

14 Visio Diagrams Atmel EB63 Evaluation Board

15 Apple Power Mac G5 Multi-processors

16 Take-aways Giano is the first Real-Time Simulation Framework for hardware-software co-development Uses Microsoft Visio as the graphing and execution User Interface Configurations are Platform XML files Nodes in the graph are separate, user-defined DLLs Properties are user-defined and node-specific Lots of functionality pre-built into the base framework 70+ working modules, 20+ systems, 4 years internal use Source, free for academic use at http://research.microsoft.com/downloads

17 Per-node Properties Create/edit as Visio Custom Properties Values are Unicode strings and numbers Only the Implementation is required Any property can be overridden on the command line

18 Giano Engine Parses the XML configuration graph Instantiates the modules as DLLs Exports a few support classes to the modules

19 Platform XML

20 Take-aways Giano is the first Real-Time Simulation Framework for hardware-software co-development Uses Microsoft Visio as the graphing and execution UI Configurations are Platform XML files Nodes in the graph are separate, user-defined DLLs Properties are user-defined and node-specific Lots of functionality pre-built into the base framework 70+ working modules, 20+ systems, 4 years internal use Source, free for academic use at http://research.microsoft.com/downloads

21 Core Functionalities Central clock, linked to CPU #0 Real-Time calibration, both CPUs and I/O Eventing and dynamic re-calibration Mapping to the hosts physical devices Large simulated guest memory (512 MB and up) Symbol tables with load/unload Tracing and basic-block profiling Graph management, with hot-plugging MP interlocks

22 CPUs ARM & Thumb, MIPS (both endians), PowerPC SimpleScalar, PolyScalar, Cacti In-Circuit Emulation (ICE), 2 JTAG Traps, external interrupts, resets Pluggable MMUs: one software, one in Verilog All interpreters (so far), all MultiProc Self-testing against Oracle machines ~20 Million instructions per second Settable lower speed (25MHz ~> 5 MIPS)

23 Busses PCI, AGP, EBI, MPI, root bus Test case generator (MIPS) Optimized routing, always one-hop away. Aliasing and multi-mapping Interrupt routing Support hot-plug/unplug of modules

24 Memory RAM, ROM, FLASH, Serial Flash Boot images and overlays Arbitrary transaction sizes Accessible from any module (DMA!) Buffer pinning Large, contiguous virtual segment for best performance Aliasing

25 Peripherals, examples 2D-graphic, 2 LCDs, keyboard, mouse, sound card A/D and D/A converters, gyroscope Ethernet, FireWire, Serial lines IDE and ATAPI disks 3 interrupt controllers and 3 timers GPIO with buttons, LEDs, Serial Flash Power/System management chips [with fan ] FPGA interface to ModelSim/Icarus Watchdog, Debug modules Do-nothing module for unimplemented parts

26 Take-aways Giano is the first Real-Time Simulation Framework for hardware-software co-development Uses Microsoft Visio as the graphing and execution UI Configurations are Platform XML files Nodes in the graph are separate, user-defined DLLs Properties are user-defined and node-specific Lots of functionality pre-built into the base framework 70+ working modules, 20+ systems, 4 years internal use Source, free for academic use at http://research.microsoft.com/downloads


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