CombiningSimulatorsandFPGAsAnOut-of-Body.pptVIP

Eric S. Chung / RAMP 2006 Summer Retreat Combining Simulators and FPGAs “An Out-of-Body Experience” Eric S. Chung, Brian Gold, James C. Hoe, Babak Falsafi echung, bgold, jhoe, babak @ The RAMP full-system challenge RAMP vision for studying systems w/ FPGAs functional cycle-accurate simulation scalability, speed, flexibility on FPGAs full-system run unmodified binaries OS Combining simulators FPGAs Simulators already provide full-system ? why not simulate infrequent behaviors e.g., I/O devices ? Outline Motivation Migration Implementation status Conclusion Migration Migration exa